Black Future Dr is a brand new podcast dedicated to showcasing the experiences of black and black mixed doctoral students in the UK (including those pursuing PhDs, as well as professional and medical doctorates).
Episodes will be released weekly starting from Monday 3rd May 2021, and will feature a different student, studying a different doctorate, at a different university.
Every episode is hosted by Nina Higson-Sweeney, a black mixed student currently studying towads a PhD in Psychology at the University of Bath.
Each episode will be 20 minutes long, and will be an informal interview between Nina and a host of guest speakers. Topics we discuss range from supervision to mentorship; from non-traditional pathways to mental health; from the application processes to future careers.
You can keep up-to-date with Black Future Dr and Nina on Twitter (@BlackFutureDr and @n_higsonsweeney).
Funding for this podcast was provided by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (@_SWDTP on Twitter).
Podcast cover art was created by Hannah Balogun (@hannah_balogun on Instagram).
All music is from Epidemic Sounds (see their website).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Black Future Dr is a brand new podcast dedicated to showcasing the experiences of black and black mixed doctoral students in the UK (including those pursuing PhDs, as well as professional and medical doctorates).
Episodes will be released weekly starting from Monday 3rd May 2021, and will feature a different student, studying a different doctorate, at a different university.
Every episode is hosted by Nina Higson-Sweeney, a black mixed student currently studying towads a PhD in Psychology at the University of Bath.
Each episode will be 20 minutes long, and will be an informal interview between Nina and a host of guest speakers. Topics we discuss range from supervision to mentorship; from non-traditional pathways to mental health; from the application processes to future careers.
You can keep up-to-date with Black Future Dr and Nina on Twitter (@BlackFutureDr and @n_higsonsweeney).
Funding for this podcast was provided by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (@_SWDTP on Twitter).
Podcast cover art was created by Hannah Balogun (@hannah_balogun on Instagram).
All music is from Epidemic Sounds (see their website).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, I got the chance to chat with Lorna Hollowood, who is a part-time PhD student and lecturer in Nursing at the University of Birmingham. We start the episode by discussing Lorna’s non-linear journey towards academia; as a teenager she had minimal access to further or higher education, and decided to pursue a career in nursing before returning to academia – in this way, she considers herself as an “accidental academic”. We discuss her PhD, which combines her personal and professional interests, and is exploring the needs of the Windrush generation living in care homes. Lorna then considers the ups and downs of being a part-time PhD student, and shares tips for how she manages to maintain a work-life balance in the time of Covid. We end the episode by reflecting on the PhD as a learning process, the benefits of networking, and the importance of black visibility in academia.
Guest bio
Lorna is a part time PhD student, coming to the end of her first year of study, in the School of Nursing at the University of Birmingham. Lorna is completing a PhD, which is exploring the needs of the Windrush Generation, who are living and dying in UK care homes. The first year of study has consisted of completing a systematic scoping review exploring care home residents experiences internationally, when people live in care homes that primarily care for a culture, ethnicity and background different to their own. The main study will be a qualitative study capturing the narratives of care home resident’s and their families and using the Silences’ Framework (Serrant-Green 2010) to identify the marginal discourses that exist in their care provision and experiences.
Alongside being a part time student Lorna is a full time lecturer in the School of Nursing, teaching undergraduate pre-registration nurses. A focus of her teaching is reducing health inequalities and promoting health, and uses teaching as an opportunity to raise the profile of nurses from diverse backgrounds. She is also a clinical associate for the Gold Standards Framework, which involves assessing UK care homes against standards for excellence in end of life care. She is currently an Academic Board member for the Birmingham and Lewisham Health Inequalities Review Board. Lorna has previously worked clinically as a District Nurse and in Specialist Palliative Care in a hospice setting. She has a BSc in Nursing, MSc in Advancing Practice and a PGCE in teaching. Lorna has published a textbook for student nurses, a literature review in a peer-reviewed journal has presented at conferences.
She is committed to promoting inclusion for black students and those from other minority ethnic backgrounds in Higher Education. You can follow Lorna on Twitter (@LornaHollowood).
Host bio
Nina Higson-Sweeney is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. Her PhD is funded by the ESRC through the South West Doctoral Training Partnership, and she is using mixed methods to explore the symptom of fatigue within adolescent depression. Prior to her PhD, Nina completed a BSc in Psychology and a MSc Health Psychology at the University of the West of England. Nina has contributed to several peer-reviewed journal articles throughout her degrees, exploring topics such as depression, CFS/ME, HIV, and loneliness and mental health in children and young people. You can follow her on Twitter (@n_higsonsweeney) and ResearchGate.
Credits
Funding for this podcast is provided by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (@_SWDTP on Twitter).
Cover art is by the talented Hannah Balogun (@hannah_balogun on Instagram).
Intro music is ‘I Was Messed Up (Instrumental Version)’ by Ella Faye, from Epidemic Sound.
Outro music is ‘Stereo (Instrumental Version)’ by Ella Faye, from Epidemic Sound.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.