VIRTUAL EVENT: Understanding mental health issues for BAME staff and students in higher education
02 July 2020, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
This webinar examines the impact of negotiating racial inequality and discrimination at university and the impact upon mental health.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Centre for Global Higher Education
Aspects examined consider the impact of belonging, victimization, isolation and marginalisation on mental health and how this consequently affects university experiences for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students and staff.
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About the Speaker
Dr Jason Arday
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Durham University
Jason Arday is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, a Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University in the Centre for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation and a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think tank.
He is also a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA). He sits on the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) National Advisory Panel and is a School Governor at Shaftesbury Park Primary School in London.