Collaborating with care:
Creating inclusive public engagement programmes with survivors of sexual violence
On 06 March 2024 The SHaME Project and Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health (CIRMH) are hosting an online seminar about public engagement with lived experience research as part of CIRMH’s Researching Lived Experience in Mental Health Seminar Series. SHaME’s Public Engagement Lead Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh will be in conversation with Zara Asif from the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London in a discussion chaired by CIRMH Director Dr Sarah Marks.
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11.00-12.00pm GMT
*This event is taking place online via MS Teams.
*This event is being recorded (speakers only).
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:
Zara Asif joined the Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Marginalised Communities Programme in January 2021. Her current research focuses around global mental health and mental health policy, particularly among marginalised communities such as ethnic minorities, refugees and migrants. In addition, Zara has worked as a co-PI for the Not My Shame project, which focused on creative collaboration between researchers and artists, and emphasised on empowering survivors of violence and abuse.
Rhea Sookdeosingh is the Public Engagement Lead for The SHaME Project. She is an experienced public engagement practitioner and has previously worked in capacity-building roles at Birkbeck and the University of Oxford. Rhea works to develop and steward partnerships that drive humanities-led research and innovation, and she has an overarching interest in showcasing the social and civic value of arts and humanities research and practice. She is also an historian with interests in the intellectual, social and cultural history of medicine. Her first monograph on the history of anorexia nervosa in nineteenth-century Britain is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Rhea is currently the co-chair of Birkbeck’s staff diversity network REACH (Race, Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage), which works to support and amplify the voices of underrepresented ethnically diverse staff across the University.