This week's episode is the last episode of the year and features co-founder of consultancy Pearn Kandola, Professor Binna Kandola, OBE. Professor Kandola speaks about his career as an undergraduate student at the University of Cardiff and then completing a PhD. He then worked at the consultancy SHL before he left to begin his own practice with his co-founder Dr Michael Pearn, at Pearn Kandola. You can find out more about Pearn Kandola and the work that they do here. 

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.

In today's episode we have guest, Shyaam Bundy. Shy is a multidisciplinary pathway worker in Essex, UK working in neurodevelopmental & mood and anxiety pathway in an integrated Emotional Well-being & Mental Health Service.  Along with having an undergraduate degree in psychology, Shy is also trained as a Therapeutic Play Worker at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London. He is also one-half of an organisation called Young Black Psych along with co-founder, Lauren...

Dr Ruwayne Kock is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his PhD at the University of Johannesburg and runs a consultancy called Authentic Organisations. It was founded to help marginalized professionals such as racial-ethnic groups, young people, women, LGBTI+ and people with disabilities to be the best they can be in the workplace. Dr Kock also serves on the Management and Executive Committee of the Society of Industrial and...

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...

This weeks podcast episode brings someone who has studied an undergraduate degree in psychology, then went on to pursue a qualification in psychotherapy and counselling, alongside managing projects in the third sector. Maame Blue is now an author having published her debut book in 2020, called Bad love. The episode focuses on Maame's unique journey and how she uses psychological knowledge in her writing. You can purchase a copy of her book here. It is a fantastic read about first love. 

This episode features Dr Rima Lamba, Counselling Psychologist and founder of private practice Blue River Psychology. Dr Lamba's work focuses on working therapeutically with women and couples from ethnically minoritised groups, especially women from South Asian backgrounds. She also specialises in transgenerational trauma, feminism, the patriarchy and issues of race, equality and inclusion. In this episode, we speak about her route to counselling psychology and how she got to where she is...

Rebecca Francis is a qualified Speech and Language Therapist who currently works for a third sector organisation. She specialises in working with children and young people. Her background she studied psychology studied for undergrad and completed a thin sandwich 4 year degree allowing her to have a few placements. She then went on to secure an assistant speech and language therapist role and then went on to complete her Masters degree in the topic. There are many overlaps between the work...

This week we have a guest, Yannick Yalipende. Yannick is currently training as a Clinical Associate Psychologist in the NHS and completing an MSc in Applied Neuropsychology from the University of Bristol. Yannick is also the Founding Director of Black People Talk (BPT); an organisation that supports the mental health of the UK’s Black community through psychoeducational and therapeutic peer support groups. Following his current role, Yannick hopes to qualify as a Clinical Neuropsychologist,...

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 week's guest is Dr Ken Greaves. He is a specialist senior educational psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children and adults in local authorities in East London. Dr Greaves has also worked and consulted for the Lorna Wing Centres, which were established to diagnose and provide support for those who are on the autistic spectrum. He now works privately and consults with workplaces, higher education, social and healthcare and works with children and adults with...

This is one of my most exciting episodes (I say this about every episode!) with two very accomplished mental health social workers, Laurie Johnson-Mathison and Jan-Michael McIntosh. Laurie completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and wanted to continue to study to become a clinical psychologist; however, when working in practical mental health settings he then became more interested in the practical part of direct client work. He then went ahead to pursue a career in mental health...

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...

This week's episode features Dr Ernest Darkwah who is a lecturer at the University of Ghana in Psychology in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Workplace Health. Dr Darkwah completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Ghana, he then went on to study an MPhil which got upgraded to a PhD research study when he gained a scholarship to study at the University of Bergen in Norway.  His research looked at the work-related experiences and health situations of...

We are back today with another episode. We had a little hiatus to gather more guests and edit the episodes all in lock down number 2/3. Today we have Prince Offei who is a registered psychotherapist and counsellor based in Accra, Ghana. Counselor Prince Offei completed his undergraduate at Cape Coast University, Ghana.  Prince kindly speaks about his journey to study psychology, his experience of studying undergraduate and postgraduate psychology in Ghana. He also talks about the mix of...

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. 

This week's episode showcases Bhairavi Prakash, social entreprenuer and founder of the Mithra Trust. Bhairavi and I studied together in 2007/200 where she completed her MSc in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Nottingham.  After the degree, Bhairavi returned to India and was able to navigate through various roles and now is the founder of an innovative and groundbreaking mental health organisation, The Mithra Trust. You can find out more about the Mithra Trust on...

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...