Silfana Nasri

Silfana Nasri is a PhD candidate/researcher at the University of Surrey. As she pursued her PhD, the University of Surrey's Doctoral College appointed her as a Postgraduate Research Student Consultant for the Decolonising Training Project (2022). She worked as a researcher at the East and Southeast Asian Community Centre (formerly known as Hackney Chinese Community Service) in 2023, conducting research on the barriers to recruitment and promotion experienced by East and Southeast Asians (ESEA) in London.
 

Before starting her PhD, Silfana had 10 years of work experience in various Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Indonesia:

1. Yayasan Pulih (The Pulih Foundation), where she focuses on community-based psychosocial interventions for women and children surviving domestic violence, disaster, war, and armed conflict.
    
2. Women Volunteer for Humanity. She worked on a research project to assess the quality of services for women and children who are in conflict with Sharia Law.
3. Save the Children Indonesia. As a Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist, she was responsible for:

• Mainstreaming gender equity and social inclusion in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating all Save the Children Indonesia projects.
• Writing proposals to raise funding for gender transformative projects in Indonesia.
• Facilitating gender and social inclusion training and induction for staff and partners at the beginning of every project to ensure gender and inclusion are mainstreamed in the program management and development.
• Leading gender and disability research, literature reviews, and data analysis.
• Initiating and leading Gender Equality Self-Assessment to create an equal and inclusive workplace culture.
• Working closely with Indonesia's Ministry of Education to develop a guideline about education during the pandemic for Special Education Needs (SEN) teachers. This guideline was used by all SEN teachers in Indonesia.
• Developing and maintaining partnerships with academics, women’s and girls’ rights organisations, disability rights groups, and minority groups.
   

4. International Labour Organization (ILO). Silfana was a National Project Officer, leading the Gender Equality and Inclusive Labour Market project. Her responsibilities and achievements are:

• Developing learning programmes for 6,000 Human Resources (HR) professionals on HR management practices for gender equality, inclusion, and non-discrimination at workplaces.
• 169,288 workers and employers benefited from awareness-raising activities to promote inclusion and reduce workplace discrimination by improving HR management practices.
• Leading gender equality, inclusion, and non-discriminative workplace campaigns in partnership with 2,206 trade union confederations’ members.
• Developing a policy paper on the inclusive workplace by consulting and engaging with representatives from the government, companies, business groups, trade unions, and communities.
• Working with HR practitioners, government, trade unions, and employers to update Indonesia's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) guidelines to include issues around sexual violence in the workplace.
   

In addition, she also organises a community of more than 750 Indonesian PhD students in the UK. She helps them connect with other PhD students and experts, encourages them to contribute according to their expertise, and facilitates collaboration with other experts and stakeholders across countries.