Interested in understanding your community and expanding your cultural knowledge?
This Inclusion Week (23-29 September) we are you to watch our four-part 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Series here (https://bit.ly/4dCltrS)
This amazing project has been brought to you by Lorenzo Magini, one of our trainee clinical scientists. He has collaborated with the Inclusion and Diversity Team of the West Midlands Healthcare Scientist Trainee Network to bring to you a series of lectures that celebrate our community's cultural diversity.
The outcome of this project has been a series of heart-felt professional stories that we hope can inspire you to be your true authentic self at work as well as help you learn and empathise from other people's lived experiences.
Part 1: Darren Lamb and Caterina Cattel
Darren Lamb (Clinical Scientist (Paediatric Neurophysiology)) & BWC EDI Manager), kickoffs this series with his segment called ‘Is Representation important?’ where he clarifies the importance of representation and helps us highlight our unconscious bias’ within minority presentation in patient care and staff experiences.
Caterina Cattel (M.D (Ph.D., C.C.T.: Clinical Lead UCSC, Rome, Italy)), follows this with her segment called ‘All Roads Lead to Rome’ where she describes her NHS journey as well as her invaluable advice that she has learnt while traveling the roads that brought her back to Rome
Watch now via our Trust YouTube channel
Part 2: Rohesia Coles and Rofida Al-Thubhani
Our second lecture starts with Rohesia Coles (People Promise Manager), who shares her journey from Occupational Therapist to Inclusion and Wellbeing Lead by analysing through the doors that opened and the decisions she made in a segment called ‘The ‘other’ box: This is Me’.
Rofida Al-Thubhani's (Trainee Clinical Scientist in Cancer Genomics), follows on from this with her segment called ‘From the West to the East and back again’. In this, she informs us of her incredible NHS journey which started in Yemen as well as gifting us with the invaluable pieces of advice she has picked up along the way.
Watch now via our Trust YouTube channel
Part 3: Waheeda Rahman and Nour Mahfel
Our third lecture starts off with Waheeda Rahman (International Nurse Educator and Pastoral Support), who explores her own cultural and professional journey to help us understand how she became an international Nurse Educator with a segment called ‘My Story: Putting the pieces together".
Nour Mahfel (Trainee Clinical Scientist in Bioinformatics) followers this with her segment called ‘Cultural Chameleons: Fitting in Without Losing Yourself’ where she speaks about how she was raised in Uzbekistan which follows both Russian and Syrian cultures to now living in the UK and the complexities of cultural adaptation she faces because of this.
Watch now via our Trust YouTube channel
Part 4: Carra Smith and Manalia Naik
Our final lecture starts off with Carra Smith (Internal Communications Manager), where she shares a reflective piece on how the NHS was her change journey as well as exploring all the amazing achievements that she has put into place so far in a segment called ‘A change is going to come’.
Manali Naik (Pre-registration Clinical Scientist) then finishes us off with his segment called "Making both shoes fit" where he shares his journey in understanding the complexities, joys and struggles of multiculturism.