The Black Business Psychology Podcast

Dr Sula Windgassen is a chartered health psychologist who has also completed a PhD in psychological medicine at King's College, London researching how psychological factors impact irritable bowel syndrome. Dr Windgassen is also a cognitive behavioural therapist and a mindfulness teacher. She also is a specialist in using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), which is a trauma focussed approach. She combines working theraputically with clients with health conditions, research and consultancy,

In this episode Dr Sula highlights her career path, from initially studying law at university and then switching to psychology, her path was set. She then completed a PhD and did a separate stage two qualification to become a chartered health psychologist. 

After hearing about this unique career path, if you want to find out more about Dr Sula's practice and work you can find out about here here https://www.healthpsychologist.co.uk/

On today's episode we have Dr Christeen George. Christeen has a long career in psychology and after initially wanting to pursue clinical psychology and her application being sent to the wrong university, she embarked on a fruitful and extremely interesting career in occupational psychology. She has worked in public sector organisations and universities as well as private consultancy during her career, including the University of Hertfordshire and the University of West London.

This episode is our second and last episode featuring Elliot Miller, trainee clinical psychologist studying at the University of East London. Hear more about Elliot's journey to clinical psychology here. 

Today's episode features incoming clinical psychologist, Elliot miller who will be starting his training at the University of East London in the next few weeks. Elliot wanted to be a vet as a youngster and as soon as he was exposed to psychology during his A-levels. Elliot worked as a support worker,  psychological assistant,  and more recently a psychological wellbeing practitioner.  Elliot speaks about his experience applying to the clinical psychology doctorate. As it's currently application season for the clinical psychology doctorate in the Uk so you may find this episode and next week's episode useful if you are applying. This is the first part of our discussion. Part 2 will be out on Thursday 23rd September. 

In today's episode we bring special guest, Dr Luke Brown who is a Clinical Psychologist with two doctoral degrees! Luke became interested in studying psychology at a young age and he completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Criminology at Keele University and then went on to complete an MRes at the University of Birmingham focussing on research around clinical psychology. He then became a research assistant on a research study called the ENRICH, and also completed his PhD during this project. He researched help-seeking behaviours during the first episode of psychosis in young black people in the West Midlands area. After completing his PhD, Luke applied to study the clinical psychology doctorate at the University of Birmingham. This is a really interesting episode so please feel free to listen and share. 

This is our 20th episode! Thank you all for your support. This episode we introduce Milimo Ninvalle, who is a senior programmes manager at a charity. She manages implements and oversees programmes all over the world to increase international development. The areas her projects focus on include education, sustainability and emergency provisions. Milimo is completed an undergraduate in psychology but decided to follow her passion and completed an MSc in International Development despite being told when she first begun university that this career path didn't exist!

This episode is featuring Krupa Suthar, who is a lead user researcher at the department of health and social care. Krupa has had a really varied and interesting career which started off in research, then education as a primary school teacher and then continued applying psychology to corporate research in many well-known brands. 

During this episode we got to speak to the amazing Dr Suhana Begum, a qualified health psychologist who is currently working as a public health lead at a local authority. She completed her professional doctorate in health psychology at City University and is passionate about creating and implementing public health interventions to enhance the lives of the public. 

This is part two of an event that occurred on Wednesday 18th November 2020 which was a panel event. This part of the event showcased Michael Ndede and Norma Molla's research projects that they completed for their Masters theses. The research studies were about organisational politics and BAME employees and microaggressions in female BAME politicians in the UK. The last section of this episode was a question and answer session by the audience members. 

This is the recording of a panel event that occurred on Wednesday 18th November 2020. The event was called: Diversity, Inclusion, Racism and Psychology. This part of the event highlighted 3 panelists who were Dr Sylvana Storey- Eisenecker, Sarah Bonner and Kaemorine Prendergast. They were answering three questions including: 

How can organisations imbed diversity and inclusion in the workplace? 

How can psychology also embed more diversity and inclusion practices into the profession?  

How can people be good allies?

The second part of the podcast will showcase Michael Ndede and Norma Molla's research projects that they completed for their Masters theses. 

This weeks podcast features final year trainee health psychologist, Izochi (Zoch) Nwaosu. Zoch is completing his professional doctorate in health psychology at the University of West England (UWE) in Bristol, UK) and is currently a sexual health advisor in a London NHS trust. He speaks about his journey to health psychology and how aspects of his current and past roles allow him to implement health-preserving interventions to clients and patients. 

Today's podcast episode features Dr Nancy Nsiah, a qualified clinical psychologist. We talk about her journey to clinical Psychology and how she navigated the application, doctorate to where she is today. Her interests lie mainly in race, religion, wellbeing and how these things interact.

Today's episode showcases Jason Shonibare who is a final year trainee Educational Psychologist, training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust. Jason shares with us his journey onto the professional doctorate, which began with his interest and natural skill of relating and communicating with others. If you are interested in a career in psychology Jason shares a really inspirational career journey full of perseverance and determination. 

This episode is a bit different from the usual, as this week we don't have an interview with a psychologist. After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, many people were outraged and shocked and some people failed to realise that this brand of racism isn't just unique to the American people, the UK also has its issues with racism and race relations. 

This episode showcases the experiences of racism from 17 Black Britons from all over the UK and I developed this idea after a conversation with Sarah Bonner.  I would like to thank all of the contributors to this episode because, without their willingness to share their stories, this episode would not have been created. 

Contributors: Anita Afirim, Anita Aggrey, Maria Blackmore, Rachel Francis, Josiah Francis, Tristan Hodge, Eugene James, Gina Jarrett, Angela Rockson, Mary Sarpong, Bianka Whynn, Yannick Yalipende, Keisha York.

Warning: This episode does contain strong language and racial slurs.

This episode introduces two occupational/business/organisational psychologists: Winnie Frimpong and Lola Odunsi. These practitioners work in the field of selection and assessment, designing, measuring and assessing employees and potential employees' ability to do their jobs in both the public and private sector. So those assessments that are common in many selection processes including the graduate programmes, these two can design, administer and assess people. We go into how they both decided to study psychology, what they like best about their jobs and what advice they would give to any one who is thinking about pursuing this area of psychology. 

This episode features the second part of our alternative careers with psychology event which was held on Tuesday 18th August 2020 and highlights the question and answer section. The audience submitted questions and then the panelists, Ranbir Jabanda,  Anne-Marie Stafford and Koral Neil answered them. Please subscribe and listen to other episodes

Welcome to the second episode of our alternative careers with psychology event. This event took place on Tuesday 18th August 2020 and showcased 3 individuals who studied psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Our panelists were: Anne- Marie Stafford - Social Sciences Teacher, Ranbir Jabanda - Business Engagement Officer and Koral Neil - Actress. You can also listen to our part 2 which covers the question and answer section of the event.

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This is part two of our Alternative Careers in Psychology event and showcases the live question and answer session from our event held on Thursday 18th June 2020. The panelists were Taslim Tharani, Michael Ndede and Charlotte Oppong.

This is the first episode of the event held on the 18th June 2020. The Alternative Careers in Psychology event showcased four individuals who didn't take traditional routes of a career in psychology after their careers. The recording features the host, Dr Grace Mansah-Owusu and speakers including Taslim Tharani, Michael Ndede and Charlotte Oppong.