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All invited to attend The British Caribbean Association 6th April 2022 1.00pm Registration Education, Child, and Adolescent Mental Health Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion – what are some of the issues and how can we help? The Doctoral Programme in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology (DEdPsy) at the Institute of Education led by programme director Professor Vivian Hill is proud to host the 2022 British Caribbean Association’s Annual Lord Pitt Memorial Lecture. The Rt Hon Lord Paul Boateng of Akyem and Wembley will chair the Lecture. Venue: Room W3.01, The UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way WC1H 0AL BCA Secretary, Eleanor Hines, email: [email protected] or [email protected] https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95612884 Programme 1.00pm 1.30pm The Lord Pitt Lecture 2022 Education, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the British Caribbean Association: Lynette Coles Vice Chair of the British Caribbean Association 1.40pm 2.00pm 2.20pm 2.40pm 2.50pm 3.10pm 3.30pm 3.50pm The Lord Pitt Award – call for nominations 4.00pm Presenter Biographies The Rt Hon Lord Paul Boateng of Akyem and Wembley The Rt Hon the Lord Paul Boateng PC DL born in Hackney and brought up in Ghana is a civil rights activist lawyer politician and diplomat. He was elected to the Greater London Council in 1981 and to Parliament in 1987 as MP for Brent South. He became Britain’s first Black Minister in 1997 when he was appointed Minister for Social Services and Mental Health subsequently Minister for the Police and then, Britain’s first Black Cabinet Minister as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2002. He stood down from Parliament in 2005 to return to Africa as British High Commissioner to South Africa where he served till 2009. Elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Boateng of Akyem and Wembley he currently serves in Parliament on the International Relations and Defence Committee. He sits on several commercial and philanthropic boards with a focus on Africa, economic development and the Arts. He is a Methodist Lay Preacher and Chairs the Archbishops Commission on Racial Justice. He is Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. He is married to Barbadian born human rights activist and local government pioneer Janet, Lady Boateng MA and they have five children and seven grandchildren. Dr Aggrey Burke Dr Aggrey Burke, FRCPsych Consultant Psychiatrist and Academic. Born 1943, St Elizabeth, Jamaica Dr Burke has been active in the field of social psychiatry and psychotherapy since his earliest training in 1968 to the present time. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the first Black consultant psychiatrist to be appointed by the NHS. In the mid-1980s he was noted to be the “leading” Black psychiatrist in Britain and only the second by 1988. Dr Burke has continuously advocated for culture-specific quality of care for Black and Asian people, researching, writing extensively, and presenting on the subject. He was based at St Georges Hospital Tooting London for much of his career, however as an individual, a generosity of spirit and support for community has underpinned the social aspect of his practice. His early work at Bellevue Hospital Jamaica focused on repatriated patients from British institutions and the detrimental effects of upheaval on their mental health. He also wrote the earliest known epidemiological report on schizophrenia in the Caribbean region. He has worked with a range of groups such as the bereaved families of 13 young people who lost their lives in the New Cross Fire in the 1980s. As a research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, he published papers on the incidences of suicide among immigrant Asian, Irish, and Caribbean people in that city. Further studies highlighted the extreme effects of deprivation on some Black communities. His findings exposed the discrimination in how these groups were treated and the inappropriate care that was provided. Dr Burke’s research into prisons and in the mental health system overall, has interrogated the treatment of young black men. He advocated therapy for recovery instead of heavy-handed responses and long periods of confinement while being administered strong drugs. This has had distressing consequences to both the patients and their families. His scrutiny includes his past work on schizophrenia and the categorisation of African Caribbean groups “in the context of race, ethnicity, class and trauma”. His “groundbreaking” paper for the journal Medical Education a prestigious publication, heralded change in the student psychiatry admission and examination process. It drew attention to the procedure and technology, which enabled “racial and sexual discrimination at the selection process for medical education at London colleges.” Co-written with clinical pharmacologist, Joe Collier, it was taken up in the form of an enquiry by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and published in their report in 1988. This was essentially a colour bar. It led to them being marginalised by the institutions, which impeded Dr Burke’s academic career. Unlike his co-writer, and peers with equally eminent credentials, Dr Burke has never received a professorship. The higher intake of Black, Asian, and female students into medical schools in Britain today, can be accredited to people like Dr Burke, Collier, and that seminal report. As president, he contributed to the growth of the Transcultural Psychiatry Society (TPS), an organisation that focused on issues of culture and race in British mental health services. In 1984 under the auspices of the TPS he chaired a symposium on mental health and apartheid. Since his retirement from St Georges, he has continued to present papers, and lectures both nationally and internationally, namely the World Congress of Social Psychiatry and in 1994 at the Martin Luther King Memorial Lecture entitled “In Search of Freedom”, and at the Huntley Conference, London Metropolitan Archives, and other public meetings. In October 2019 he was recognised with two other psychiatrists, appearing on a Royal College of Psychiatrists poster for Black History Month. Dr Burke has chaired, served as a trustee and as a panellist with organisations in his field or in the community as a specialist of social psychiatry and the Black experience in Britain and is consulted on issues, for example, the Windrush scandal. He is an active member of international organisations from the International Association for the Prevention of Suicide to the George Padmore institute a centre for information, education, and research. Dr Burke currently serves on the General Medical Council, which oversees the medical profession. Helen Upton Helen Upton is a HCPC registered and BPS Chartered Senior Educational Psychologist. Helen is a member of Wandsworth Schools & Community Psychology Service and a Year Co-ordinator on the doctoral training course for Educational Psychologists at University College London (UCL), Institute of Education. Helen is a trained practitioner and supervisor in Video Interaction Guidance an intervention that supports the development of attunement in relationships. She is committed to improving life chances for children and young people and has worked extensively with children and young people with social, emotional, and mental health needs. Dr Melernie Meheux Dr Melernie Meheux is a Chartered Senior Educational Psychologist and has worked in education for 18 years. Melernie is a Certified Play Therapist and a joint Year Co-ordinator on the doctoral training course for Educational Psychologists, at University College London (UCL), Institute of Education. Melernie is co-vicechair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Child and Educational Psychology (DECP) and jointly chairs the division’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Implementation Group. She is chair of the board of trustees for the charity Solidarity Sports, a charity which supports vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families to access play opportunities and improve their long-term life outcomes. Her professional interests include attachment, the social, emotional, and mental health of children and supporting children who have been excluded or are at risk of permanent school exclusion. Dr Iesha Ginn Dr Iesha Ginn is an Educational Psychologist with the Wandsworth Schools and Community Psychology Service (SCPS). She is also a core member of the Trainee Educational Psychologists’ Initiative for Cultural Change (TEPICC). As part of her training as an EP, Iesha completed research exploring what it means to belong in school for young people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. This involved interviewing young people aged 11 to 16 and gathering their views on their belonging in school. The main findings from this research were the two dimensions of school belonging that emerged; general and ethnic belonging as well as the impact of the school ecosystem on this. Iesha is part of a working group leading Wandsworth SCPS work on becoming an anti-racist and anti-discriminatory service. Mickel Johnson Mickel Johnson is a third-year trainee educational psychologist studying at the IOE and chair and co-founder of the group TEPICC /TEH-PICK/ – Trainee Educational Psychologists’ Initiative for Cultural Change. His academic and vocational background is rooted in the education sector, specifically teaching English as a foreign language having taught both domestically and internationally for over 13 years. His other work experience includes supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, children looked after and previously looked after via mentoring for a west London Virtual School. His doctoral thesis aims to investigate the perceived self-efficacy of primary and secondary educators in their ability to teach refugee and immigrant background minors online. His interests include competitive Judo, boxing, and computer technology.
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