Social work seminar:
Mental health and race, culture and ethnicity - the lessons from research
Date: Thursday 25 March 2010
Time: 5.30pm – 7pm
Venue: Room 6233 Frank Lampl Building, Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston University
For information and bookings contact: Michelle Rondeau, tel +44 (0)208 8725 0220 or email m.rondeau@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
School of Social Work seminar series
The Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences' School of Social Work is delighted to present a series of seminars at their Kingston Hill Campus. The seminars are delivered by leading national and international researchers, policy makers and commentators and focus on issues of topical and contemporary importance. The seminars are open to all staff and students at Kingston University and at St George’s, University of London, staff in local social services in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors, and to service users and carers and their organisations who assist with the School's social work education programmes.
In this free seminar, the eighth of the series, Hári Sewell will discuss his work, which includes being an expert panellist with the Department of Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Hári Sewell is a former executive director of social care in the NHS, now an independent consultant, writer and speaker in his specialist area of ethnicity, race and culture in mental health.
Hári is Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Integrated Care. He chairs the national Social Care Strategic Network (Mental Health) and is part of the Marmot Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post-2010. His book ‘Working with Ethnicity Race and Culture in Mental Health: A Handbook for Practitioners’ was published in October 2008.