📚 Excited to kick off the new academic year with the @OxPsychiatry Race & Psychiatry Journal Club! 🎉
Read our Q&A with co-founders @mayaogonah & @anabellepauli: https://t.co/LQVoVL7M5S
Check out our toolkit: https://t.co/bI8mkiIDii
🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/1Ob4LxfB8X
Today marks the start of Race Equality week, aimed at addressing the barriers to race equality in the workplace. In March, we explored moving from not racist to anti-racist. Read the blog. https://t.co/rlWO6VG1aT #EveryActionCounts
Happy New Year! 🎉 We're thrilled to kick off 2025 with our next Race & Psychiatry Journal Club! Join us for an insightful talk by DPhil student Ed Penington @OxPsychiatry
🕐 Wednesday, 15th January at 10:30 GMT
🔗 Join us virtually at https://t.co/cThkuFrDQ3
Extremism, racism and riots: exploring the political, social and cultural determinants of poor mental health | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/2WxLpeuPO4
🚨NEW! In our November Race & Psychiatry Journal Club, we had an inspiring conversation with Angela Kibia from @KingsIoPPN about the lived experiences of Black carers supporting a relative with psychosis
💡Learn more about the impactful work of the SAFE project: @safe_study_
Applications are open for our Academic Futures scholarship. The scheme is aimed at addressing under-representation and help improve equality, diversity and inclusion in our graduate student body.
Apply before 3 December 2024. More info:
https://t.co/EEDZjcL9OL
We are committed to dismantling racism in healthcare. Today we’re launching our 7 Anti-Racism Principles, designed to drive real change and equity. #RHO_AntiRacism
Maya Ogonah @mayaogonah is a DPhil student in our Department who also co-founded @OxRacePsych Race & Psychiatry Journal Club. She was nominated for her "tireless work in promoting black researchers & research" & being "a brilliant emerging researcher.” https://t.co/WBWVUW4xPz
Stephani Hatch, Professor of Sociology & Epidemiology & Vice Dean for Culture, Diversity & Inclusion @KingsCollegeLon@HatchStephani, does fantastic work leading the health inequalities research group and is an "absolute powerhouse" - @DrAmyGillespie
https://t.co/GqQFFu4mxi
Briana Applewhite - a DPhil student in our Dept - researches the use of creative arts therapies for Black racial minority groups experiencing psychiatric disorders. She's described as an "inspiration for how to conduct meaningful, human-centered research" https://t.co/l4z46ElrLT
Another vital report from @CentreforMH who have been talking about #racism & #mentalhealth for a long time. We need action, this report tells us what we need to do, we need the @GOVUK to truly listen & work to eradicate racism & the toxic impact it has on all of us.
@OxRacePsych@DrKevinMatlock @TanyaManchanda_ @BrennanDelattre@emma_soneson@JuliaABLindsay If you are interested in establishing a similar group in your Department @UniofOxford or institution there is a toolkit to help.
Read Maya & Anabelle's 12 tips for setting up a special interest group like the Race and Psychiatry Journal Club 👇 3/3
https://t.co/ki9zKdWxtb
Supported by the Dept’s Race Equality Working Group, @OxRacePsych meets each month, with a relevant paper presented - either by one of the authors or by a researcher not connected to the paper – followed by a discussion. 2/3
Find papers & resources 👇https://t.co/aRkWgNCXCT
Our Race & Psychiatry Journal Club resumed today, a year since being set up by @mayaogonah & @anabellepauli@OxRacePsych aims to reflect on race in psychiatric research & the challenges faced by minoritised individuals in healthcare 🧵1/3
More 👇
https://t.co/Tq9IGBJzDM
Our @OxPsychiatry Race and Psychiatry Journal Club resumed today for the new academic year 👏 with @UCLPsychiatry PhD India Francis-Crossley presenting her umbrella review of the association between racial/ethnic discrimination and psychosis risk.
Our People & Culture focus this month has been racial equality.
We asked members of Psychiatry to nominate people in the dept for their:
- positive contributions to psychiatric research
- efforts to improve race equality
Our Race Equality Recognition Award winners are...👇
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Anabelle Paulino @anabellepauli & Maya Ogonah @mayaogonah got the most nominations 👏 for "exceptional" work both in their forensic psychiatry research & in setting up the very impactful Race & Psychiatry Club.
Maya: https://t.co/jMa4vHKcBU
Anabelle: https://t.co/LFLolSt4P9
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