Stand Up, Speak Out! Racial Justice in Healthcare Education.

Phase 1: Racial Justice Zoom Convening (19th May 2022, Thursday)

Providing the first platform of its kind in Ireland, we will hold a half-day racial justice Zoom convening for minoritised ethnic healthcare students. The bespoke convening will involve two parts: 1) keynote presentations by renowned racial justice advocates and researchers, followed by 2) breakout student group discussions on potential racial justice strategies (e.g. reporting pathways, clinical placement, curriculum content and assessment) in a safe and empowering environment. The discussions will be collated, pseudonymised and summarised to generate a bespoke report.

Who is this for?
Undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students across all disciplines in the Faculty of Health Sciences who self-identify as being part of (a) minoritised ethnic group(s) in Ireland. This includes but is not limited to Irish Traveller, Roma, Black, Asian, Arab and mixed ethnic backgrounds.

What will it involve?
The bespoke convening will involve two parts:

1. Keynote presentations by renowned racial justice advocates, practitioners and researchers; followed by
2. Confidential breakout group discussions facilitated by Trinity and Immigrant Council of Ireland staff to discuss potential racial justice strategies in healthcare education (e.g. incident reporting pathways, clinical placement, curriculum content and assessment) in a safe and empowering environment.

When and where?
Date: 19th May (Thurs), 2022
Time: 1 to 5 pm (Provisional)
Venue: Zoom

Registration
If you are an ethnic minority healthcare student at Trinity College Dublin, please consider participating and you will receive a €15 One4all Gift Card. No prior experience in racial justice is required. Please register using Eventbrite and we will send on a participation information leaflet at a later stage. Please note that you must read, sign and return the form to fully secure a place. REGISTER HERE: www.eventbrite.ie/e/327257505007

Detailed Event Schedule

Time	Content	Name
1.00 to 1.15	Opening remarks	TBC
	Zooming out: Racial justice in Ireland and healthcare
1.15 to 1.45	Keynote 1	Patricia Munatsi, Policy Lead at Irish Network Against Racism
1.45 to 2.00	Keynote 2	Dr Lucy Michael, Director at Lucy Michael Research, Training and Consultancy
2.00 to 2.10	Break
2.10 to 2.40	Keynote 3	Dr Vibhuti Arya, Associate Clinical Professor at St. John's University, New York
2.40 to 3.00	Discussion	All
3.00 to 3.05	Break
	Zooming in: What we need to do next
3.05 to 3.55	Breakout group discussion 1 (Topics TBC)
3.55 to 4.00	Break
4.00 to 4.50	Breakout group discussion 2 (Topics TBC)
4.50 to 5.00	Closing Remarks	TBC

 

Speaker Profiles

Patricia Munatsi Policy Lead at Irish Network Against Racism

Patricia Munatsi is an international human rights lawyer, with a Master’s in International Human Rights from University College Dublin and a Bachelor of Laws Honours Degree from University of Zimbabwe. She has extensive experience working in the human rights and developmental field in Africa. She is interested in policy development, social justice and equality and is currently employed by the Irish Network Against Racism as a Policy Lead where she is drafting a National Action Plan Against Racism Shadow Report. Full biography here: Patricia Munatsi

Dr Lucy Michael Director at Lucy Michael Research, Training and Consultancy

Dr Lucy Michael is a sociologist in practice and consultant on equality and integration issues. Her work particularly addresses racist discrimination and violence, experiences of victims, and the roles of statutory institutions and civil society in combating hate crime and exclusion. She is author (with Bryan Fanning) of Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands (MUP, 2019), and (with Samantha Schulz) of Unsettling Whiteness (Brill, 2019). She is also a Commission Member on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Dr Michael has conducted research with a wide range of public and private sector bodies including the International Organisation for Migration, UK Home Office and European Network Against Racism. She is co-author with INAR of the iReport.ie racist incident reporting system used to map racism in Ireland. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin, and MA in Criminology and Research Methods and PhD from Keele University. She previously held lecturing posts at Ulster University and University of Hull, and is a former President of the Sociological Association of Ireland. Full biography here: Dr Lucy Michael

Dr Vibhuti Arya Associate Clinical Professor at St. John's University, New York

Dr Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH, is an Associate Clinical Professor at St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and serves as a Clinical Advisor to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has worked for the past 15 years to bridge the gap between healthcare, well-being, and equity. A racial dialogue expert, Dr. Arya brings together her experiences in social justice, education, theatre, and mindfulness to create brave spaces for people and systems to intentionally work towards dismantling structural racism. She celebrates being an immigrant in Washington Heights (before it was a musical), a yoga teacher, and a generic brown woman to find ways to energize education one human at a time. In 2020, she gave a TEDx talk entitled Dark Room Methodology: Bringing Light to Structural Racism. Dr. Arya is a former APhA-ASP National President and New Practitioner leader, helps lead the APhA-APPM Public Health SIG, and serves on the APhA Taskforce on Systemic Racism. Most recently, she received the Sustained Contributor Award from the American Public Health Association Pharmacy Section and led a team to win the MIT Hacking Racism Challenge in Social Justice & Policy. Dr. Arya is a Global Lead for Gender Equity and Diversity Workforce Development for the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). She earned her PharmD from St. John’s University, completed the Pharmaceutical Care Leadership Residency at the University of Minnesota, and earned her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Full biography here: Dr Vibhuti Arya

 

What will I learn?
This is a first-of-its-kind event collaboratively delivered by international racial justice experts across academia, non-governmental organisations, policy and research. We believe this will be a transformative experience through which you will not only further your knowledge about racial justice, but also use your voice and lived experience to inform how racial justice could be achieved in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Trinity College. You will build confidence, advocacy skills and community networks as well as grow as racial justice advocates through community empowerment.

Is there any remuneration?
As a token of appreciation for your time, each student will be provided with a €15 One4all gift card.

What impact will I make?
The confidential breakout group discussions will be used to generate a bespoke report. The report, which will capture the racial justice priorities in healthcare education you and your peers highlight, will be disseminated to the Faculty of Health Sciences Executive and the Equality Office (including the Racial and Ethnic Equality Working Group and Inclusive Curriculum Project) to embed your voices in future racial justice strategies. This will benefit future minoritised ethnic healthcare students in the Faculty and wider University.

How will data from the breakout group discussions be managed?
This will be detailed in the participant agreement form. The breakout sessions will be recorded, transcribed, pseudonymised and stored on the Trinity College OneDrive network. Upon completion of the process, the recordings will be permanently deleted. Your confidentiality will be protected and your identity will not be disclosed in the report.

Discussing racism might be distressing for me – what if I feel like I could not proceed further with the event?
We will establish a safety protocol which will be elaborated in the participant agreement form. We understand that discussing racism can be distressing for some people. You can withdraw from the event at any point and we will signpost various Trinity support services available to all participants.

 

Phase 2: Report Dissemination and Workshop (More details to follow)

The report will be launched at an event where it will be presented and discussed, followed by an intercultural competency workshop for interested staff members delivered by the Immigrant Council of Ireland. It is hoped that the report will be disseminated across the Faculty and wider University with a view to informimg policy and strategy.

 

This project is funded by the Trinity College Equality Fund.