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The Annual Peter Dempsey Lecture 2022
You are warmly invited to the Annual Peter Dempsey lecture 2022, which will take place at 4.30pm on Thu 5th May 2022.
This year's lecture will be given by Prof. Ross White.
Prof. Ross White (PhD, DClinPsy) is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is an expert in Global Mental Health. He was lead editor of ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-cultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health’. Ross has research collaborations with the World Health Organization and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees investigating the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for reducing distress experienced by refugees particularly in the context and/or aftermath of humanitarian crises. He also has an interest in the processes involved in the linguistic/cultural adaptation of psychological therapies. Ross is the Principal Investigator on the ESRC/AHRC funded Community-based Sociotherapy Adapted for Refugees (COSTAR) project that is evaluating a psychosocial intervention for Congolese refugees living in Uganda and Rwanda. Ross was a co-investigator on the EU Horizon2020 funded Refugee Emergency: DEFining and Implementing Novel Evidence-based psychosocial interventions (RE-DEFINE) project that is evaluating a group-based guided self-help intervention for refugees and asylum seekers across the EU and in Turkey.
Saoirse Ethnic Hands On Deck Co-Operative, Cork Migrant Centre is a community-based psychosocial intervention with migrant women in Cork. The Saoirse Programme has been supported by the Cork Local Enterprise Office to empower migrant women living in Direct Provision. During the lockdown, the Cork Migrant Centre Coffee Morning group started to make facemasks to keep people in Direct Provision safe. This psychosocial intervention has flourished into a social enterprise, which sees these women bring their design talents and skills to market.
For capacity reasons, please register at https://tinyurl.com/yu7cv5pv