This inaugural conference, supported by the BPS, emphasised scholarship from the Global South for the Global South. This was a broad and stimulating programme of talks and, as such, it is only possible to report on a small part of this rich and thought-provoking work. I refer those interested to the conference YouTube here: Afro-Asian […]
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Jen started working at the university a week after full lockdown came into effect in 2020. She began her role as unit convenor for the Learning Disability unit, as well as taking on new supervisor training workshops. Jen is now clinical director for the clinical psychology programme. Prior to this role she worked as a […]
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One of our 3rd year trainees, Hollie Butcher, and our two EDI Research Assistants Rachel Francois-Walcott and Feride Masera, collected some information about pathways into clinical psychology training. Here are the findings. At Surrey, we celebrate the whole breadth of professional experiences that help to develop how you approach your work and the skills that […]
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I met with Babs, the Senior Administrative Officer on the PsychD programme. We had some time to speak about issues surrounding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), but more specifically the EDI book club that she co-leads. Babs has been working at the university for nearly 6 years now, having worked in the PsychD department the […]
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I met with the co-lead of the Professionalism and Leadership unit here on the University of Surrey’s Clinical Psychology Doctorate. We had the opportunity to talk about decolonising the curriculum and how specifically this impacts the unit he co-leads. The importance of decolonising Decolonising the curriculum is useful, not only because of the ethical component, […]
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Nicole Samuel, a current PsychD trainee, shares her perspective on decolonising “For me, as a current PsychD trainee, ‘decolonising’ throws up many questions: When will we move beyond the implicit assumption that psychology, as we know it, is universal, rather than culturally bound in its Eurocentricity? Of the accepted evidence-base, theories and practices in our […]
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