*PLEASE SHARE & ATTEND* I will be collaborating with
BAATN
to deliver a workshop British Bangladeshi Muslim Men & Mental Health - Research findings and practice considerations on Thursday 23rd May 6:00pm - 8:00pm via Zoom. Hope to see you there!

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Education and Palestine:
A series of online seminars critically examining education in and on Palestine will be hosted in the School of Education over the coming weeks. The 1st seminar is on Thurs 18th April, 12.30. Open to all, registration required at birmingham.ac.uk/education-and-…

My latest article, titled 'The Politics of Believing and Belonging: Increasing Diversity Among Muslim Immigrants in Germany”, is now online at the
International Migration Review (IMR). Available at this link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01… Let me know if you want a copy!

My new article just published!! 'The (un)equal university: Training programmes and the commodification of race' explores how since BLM race has simply become a commodity to benefit white groups #race #equity
Open access and free to download!!
doi.org/10.1111/hequ.1…

*Now published!*

British Muslim participants rated therapy as more credible and had higher expectations of it when religion was acknowledged vs not acknowledged in a description of CBT in video vignettes!

Open access: shorturl.at/hrAC9

Whether it is an eloquent request, or a simple cry of 'I can't do this!' asking for support, help, and advice is not a sign of weakness, but rather a sign of strength and courage.

Racism a ‘cause of poor mental health’ and prevents access to support via The Independent - comment from our CEO Dr Habib Naqvi MBE on stark racial disparities: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

PARTICIPANTS NEEDED!! I am still recruiting for my research below on South Asian caregivers caring for a child with mental health difficulties. Please share this important research widely and to anyone who may fit the criteria

A different perspective! Louise Atkins 🎓 Uni of Greenwich Institute for Educational & Social Equity Rob Smith Prof Ann Lopez Dr Deborah Husbands Callum Cuddeford Copleston Peckham
Christine Callender Prof William Lez Henry
Diana James
uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…

Pls RT: If you're interested in researching the effect of the impostor phenomenon in higher education (aka impostor syndrome), this one's for you! See also here: westminster.ac.uk/research/group…

Happy to share my latest publication from my PhD: Understanding the mental health of doctoral students: a narrative literature review mdpi.com/2673-8392/3/4/…

Tomorrow morning I'll explore what the politics of psychology reveals about Islamophobia, with a particular focus on Palestine

Online, London 11:30am, open to all

So Daily Mail Online is writing hit piece to falsely accuse me of antisemitism 4 daring to call out State of Israel’s extermination of 15000 Palestinians. See how they conflate ‘Israel’ with Jewish ppl & invoke ‘Holocaust’. They want my comment:

“I Stand With Palestine. Do Your Worst”

This is just wild. 2 women were arrested in the UK for holding a sign in Arabic. The cops asked them to translate the sign. They did. The cops couldn’t verify it because they didn’t have a translator, so they arrested them

Arabic is now a crime in the UK

Very excited about our edited book which is coming out next month! Drawing on rich chapters from across the world the book aims to theorise beyond the action/inaction binary by reflecting on people’s political activism in precarity Department of Education, University of Oxford @CIEatOxord Maia Chankseliani

As I said on Oct. 7th, decolonization is about dreaming and fighting for a world free of occupied Indigenous territories. It’s about a Free Palestine. It’s about liberation and self-determination. It’s about living in peace and with dignity. DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR.

NEW research 🎉

👉If you are a part of leadership team (SLT) in mainstream secondary schools in England, please consider taking part

🔗registration: bit.ly/surveySLT
🔗more info: bit.ly/inforSLT

GRRAND Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou #autism #mentalhealth

I would like to hear from more South Asian adults diagnosed with autism or self-identifying as autistic, on their experiences and needs of talking therapies in the UK. Please share GRRAND CRAE sloth communism Damian Milton Brian Irvine Susana Castro-Kemp Emine Gurbuz (she/her)