This event has now ended - to view the recordings from the event and other events in the series see here: https://livpsych.wordpress.com/how-to-be-an-anti-racist-mental-health-researcher/.

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When we first decided to host a webinar tackling race and mental health in June 2020, we were shocked by the statistics which showed the health inequalities in mental health and psychiatry. Through the webinar in June 2020 and through this series of webinars in 2021, the reality behind those figures is beginning to take shape.

We felt that the most appropriate way to close the series would be to focus on training and skills. As such, we look forward to you joining us for a workshop with Hári Sewell, which will take place one year after the original webinar we hosted in 2020, at which Hári was our first speaker.

For details on the content of the workshop see below:

"This workshop will take delegates on an exploration of their own conceptualisations of what constitutes racism. Delegates will see that by only attending to visible and offensive forms of racism in the lives of people who use services and engage in research, the practitioner and researcher significantly narrows the frame and (perhaps) inadvertently diminishes the impact of diffuse forms of racism on the mental health of citizens and people who come into contact with mental health services. The workshop will expose how we have been socialised into ‘racist processing’ of information and experiences (cognitive, emotional and embodied responses and reactions). A framework will be provided for taking racism into account, drawing on documented theories."

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For more on Hári Sewell and his work see below:

Hári Sewell is founder and Director of HS Consultancy and is a former executive director of health and social care in the National Health Service in the UK. He has worked for the Department of Health in regulation and policy.

Hári is a writer and speaker in his specialist area of social justice, equalities and ethnicity, race and culture in mental health. Hári is honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire and Specialist Guest Lecturer at University of Bradford and is a Member of the Scientific Board of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. Hári has had various books, articles and book chapters published, with new material emerging regularly.

Hári worked with another local campaigner to secure services for survivors of sexual violence and currently runs a campaign “Men Supporting Women’s Rights” including “Men Against Rape”. He is increasingly studying forms of masculinity and the possibilities in practice and employee relations to recognise the intersections between masculinity and other aspects of identity.

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To catch up on the recordings from the series, head over to: https://livpsych.wordpress.com/how-to-be-an-anti-racist-mental-health-researcher/