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Co-chaired and introduced by our Ben Gidley and our professor emerita Avtar Brah, as well as Ann Phoenix of TCRU at UCL IOE/SSRU.

📣Call for papers📣

Lightening Dark Places: Exploring #ForensicMentalHealth and Treatment
Guest edited by Anne Aiyegbusi, David W Jones, David Kaposi & Jo Lomani

Abstract deadline: 31 May
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Association for Psychosocial Studies #PrisonMentalHealth #ForensicPsychiatry

Are we in a #Loneliness pandemic?
Read the new special issue of the Journal of #Psychosocial Studies, guest edited by Olivia Sagan and David W Jones
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QMUPsychology Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network Association for Psychosocial Studies #socialisolation

📢We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE DTP institutions.
📅 15/04/24:  chase.ac.uk/placements/ope… Please RT!

Are you an academic mental health researcher at a UK university? Your voice is crucial in understanding the effects of mental health research on your own well-being! Take part in our Research England survey and we'll donate to Mind...app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/academi…

Eid Mubarak 🌙 We'd like to wish all of the Birkbeck community celebrating a happy, peaceful Eid.

Includes Karen Wells🏳️‍🌈’s Weaving Knowledge documentary, Prof Bryan Cheyette 💙💛 on decolonising testimony, the launch of CILAVS Birkbeck film club, poetryXpsychoanalysis, and more!

Avtar Brah on our screens last night, in Series 2 of #Defiance . Narrating her view from a window overlooking the police brutality defending the ground for the NF, by attacking the anti-racist local protestors.
Rajesh Thind She wrote about the aftermath in 'Scent of A Memory.'

Watching part 2 of Channel 4’s #Defiance and overwhelmed by sight of Prof Avtar Brah who was a founding member of Southall Black Sisters and latterly my tutor at Birkbeck. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants.

🎉 Nominations open for SU Awards! Know someone who's gone above and beyond? Want to recognize efforts and achievements? 🥳 Head to Birkbeck SU Awards Page and nominate a fellow Birkbeck community member today! 🏆💻

#birkbeck #students #bbk #awards #nominations @birkbeckuol

“My work reflects on my journey as a migrant, splicing together autobiographical and fictional narratives that re-imagine what it means to belong.” Meet Divya Sharma, one of the exhibited artists in PAPER CUTS, opening 25 April Peltz Gallery. Link in bio.

📢Next one up for Decolonising Counselling & Psychotherapy seminar series:
🗓️Fri 12 April at 2pm
🎤Mariya Levitanus -Beyond the Norm: Decolonial #Queer Perspectives on Counselling & Psychotherapy

Free & open to all:
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“And I wonder,” Angela Davis asked in a 2013 lecture at Birkbeck University in London, “will we ever truly recognize the collective subject of history that was itself produced by radical organizing?”

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🔥🎓 Ignite your passion for social science research with Birkbeck, University of London 's Postgraduate Social Research Programmes!

📅 Date: 17 April 2024
📍 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
🕕 Time: 12:30 PM (UK Time)

Secure your spot NOW! 👉 shorturl.at/aFJQ2🚀

Avtar Brah’s beautiful essay ‘scent of memory’ (1999) includes reflections on her fieldwork in Southall during the 1970’s & how older Punjabi women mourned the murder of Blair Peach. He moved from ajnabi (stranger) to apna, one of our own brunel.ac.uk/research/Docum…

Birkbeck alumna Marai Larasi has been awarded an MBE for her campaigning & activism. She was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy and is one of the most influential LGBTQ people in the political and activist space. 🧵👇

Opening in 1 month: my exhibition PAPER CUTS.
Launch event: Thursday 25 April, 6-8pm. Free, booking required. Link in my bio.

Who gets remembered, and who forgotten?

Supported by the British Art Network (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art & Tate), British Society for the History of Science, and Birkbeck, University of London.

HOLD THE DATE: our next webinar will be on 30 April and focus on the right to protest. Watch this space to find out about the great line up and for registration details.

The Culture Diaspora Ethnicity MA programme