We have asked our community to nominate Black colleagues - past, present and future - who have achieved in our disciplines through inspiring writings and presentations.
Below you can see a list of people that have received nominations so far.
听was a visiting professor at 香港六合彩中特网 for two years before his death. A great clinical psychologist and great person, for many years the only Black psychoanalyst in the USA. Wrote on race and therapy (a little) but was most interested in the social interaction of patient and therapist and its quantification. At 香港六合彩中特网 he was on the Faculty of our summer research training programme for advanced clinicians and was admired for his gentle pedagogy that could always see the sense in the senseless questions of fellows. 听His presentations on Q-sort techniques for quantifying the differences in the processes activated by different modalities 听of psychotherapy were inspiring. Controversially, he showed that CBT therapists were most effective when they were rated as behaving most like psychoanalysts.
Sharon James has dedicated over half of her career in libraries to supporting academic staff and students in the Division of Psychology and Language Science, primarily to those based in Chandler House. Working at 香港六合彩中特网 since 1998, Sharon has become a well-regarded staff member within Library Services.Sharon has always been heavily invested in promoting wellbeing at work, and routinely goes the extra mile to support staff and students. Volunteering for a 鈥榳ellbeing champion鈥� role a number of years ago, Sharon has spent time working with colleagues on a central Library committee, rolling out wellbeing initiatives to over 350 staff across Library Services. Sharon has worked with colleagues on wellbeing projects such as creating resources for students, giving talks to librarians, and taking a lead on building a wellbeing book collection used by students and staff across 香港六合彩中特网. In 2019 Sharon was short listed for a 香港六合彩中特网 Professional Services award, celebrating her achievements in the field of wellbeing. Sharon has been a volunteer first aider and mental health first aider for two decades, and outside of work spent many years as a trained counsellor. Through this Sharon has provided much needed support to a vast number of people.听
Graduating with a first-class honours degree in Women鈥檚 Studies and Caribbean Studies, Sharon is an advocate for equality and will challenge in the work place when issues need addressing. Sharon recently contributed to the Library Services Equalities, Diversity, and Inclusion newsletter focussing on Black Lives Matter. This received praise from the 香港六合彩中特网 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion team, resulting in further 香港六合彩中特网-wide distribution. Sharon also plays an active part in library outreach and for the last 18 years has been working with the library team and 香港六合彩中特网 Alumni, fund raising and sending much needed SLT books and resources to Ghana, directly supporting education and therapy.听
In 2019 香港六合彩中特网 Library Services gained Customer Service Excellence accreditation, and Sharon was instrumental in providing evidence by creating engaging customer service training films. These were highly commended by the assessor and helped to secure the accreditation. Sharon continues to provide excellent customer service to the 香港六合彩中特网 community, and continually goes out of her way to assist those that need help. Sharon is an extremely valued member of the team, and continues to be a well-respected member of staff in PALS. This is reflected by the continuous warm feedback the library receives from students, academic staff, and visitors.
qualified with a BSc in Speech Sciences in 2004 from 香港六合彩中特网 and began working as a speech and language therapist (SLT) with adults with acquired speech, language and communication disorders. She returned to 香港六合彩中特网 in 2007 to complete an MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition, carrying out her dissertation with Professor Cathy Price (IoN). She studied for a part-time PhD supervised by Dr Suzanne Beeke and Dr Carol Sacchett (Department of Language and Cognition) alongside her work as an SLT, which included managerial roles in the NHS and in independent practice. During this time she also taught on the department鈥檚 MSc Speech and Language Sciences pre-registration speech and language therapy degree programme. After being awarded her PhD in 2020 after a lockdown virtual viva, Dr Adjei-Nicol secured a senior lecturer role in speech and language therapy at the University of Greenwich, and continues to work part time as an SLT. Dr Adjei-Nicol is passionate about encouraging more people from BAME backgrounds to enter the speech and language therapy profession. She has been part of 香港六合彩中特网's Envision Programme talking to Black African and Caribbean school pupils about university and speech and language therapy as a career, and continues to regularly give talks to sixth form students from minority ethnic backgrounds. Dr Adjei-Nicol says 鈥淏eing of Ghanaian heritage, I have felt a personal responsibility to support speech and language therapy in Ghana where the profession is in its infancy. I am secretary of a clinical excellence network called BRiGHt (British Ghanaian Therapy Partnership), which supports and collaborates with speech and language therapy training establishments and SLTs in Ghana. As part of this, I have delivered teaching and workshops to students at the University of Accra and currently mentor two newly qualified Ghanaian SLTs鈥�. Dr Adjei-Nicol maintains active research collaborations with colleagues at 香港六合彩中特网, most recently as a co-applicant for funding for a project to develop culturally relevant clinical guidelines to support the management of eating and drinking difficulties in Ghana.
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