Podcasts
Voices for Change
Our podcasts explore the experiences, challenges, and insights of staff, patients, and researchers across health and social care. Each episode highlights stories of equity, innovation, and learning, giving you a chance to hear directly from those shaping a fairer, more inclusive system.
Podcast: Using Virtual Reality to build a more inclusive NHS with Stephani Hatch.
Professor Stephani Hatch has dedicated her career to creating more inclusive workplaces, with a focus on the NHS. She is Vice Dean for Culture, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology at King’s College London.
Her research revealed that NHS staff from Black or ethnic minority backgrounds are more than twice as likely to experience workplace harassment and bullying compared with white British staff. This has serious impacts on mental health and ultimately on patient care.
To address this, Stephani has introduced 360° Virtual Reality headsets for NHS managers and staff, allowing them to “walk in the shoes” of racially minoritised colleagues and better understand their experiences. In this episode, she shares her insights and discusses what can be done to foster inclusive healthcare workplaces.
Join acclaimed journalist and Academy president Will Hutton in The We Society podcast as he explores the stories behind the news and solutions from leading social scientists.
The We Society podcast is brought to you by the Academy of Social Sciences, in association with the Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.
Podcast: Inequalities in Healthcare Services: Part 1
In this first episode of our two-part series on inequalities in healthcare services, Srishti, a 3rd year medical student with a keen interest in mental health, and Shaza, a HYPE Project volunteer, talk to Dr. Juliana Onwumere about the challenges of working in healthcare and other organisations when from an ethnic minority background. They discuss the impacts of unfair treatment and how we can retain hope in challenging circumstances.
Juliana is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and researcher at King’s College London. She has dedicated her research and clinical efforts to treating people with severe mental health problems and their families and has a keen interest in increasing social inclusion and decreasing stigma within healthcare services. Much of this work is linked to the Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences (TIDES) Project, a research initiative at King’s that examined the effects of unfair treatment experienced by healthcare practitioners on work and health outcomes and now her work as part of CARE-HSC.
Podcast: Inequalities in Healthcare Services: Part 2
Preety and Vish are trained in medicine and members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists as well as active researchers in the field of mental and physical health inequalities. They are steering members of the Maudsley Cultural Psychiatry Group (MCPG) which aims to encourage and facilitate sociocultural education and community engagement amongst trainee and practising psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals. The MCPG offers a safe space for people from diverse backgrounds to talk about their experiences in life, work, and education.
TIDES Virtual Reality Study - "Walking in the shoes of..."
How Virtual Reality is Helping Tackle Racism in the NHS
Bitesize video: Qualitative analysis
In this video we talk about the TIDES project and what we are doing with the data we gather through our interviews to help reduce discrimination in health services and improve working conditions for all NHS staff. We explain how this data is analysed using qualitative analysis.
Visit Futurelearn to find out more about the Centre for Society and Mental Health’s free online research methods training course for peer & community based research. The course intends to promote social change & remove barriers to research for non-academics & community members.
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