Wellbeing Wednesday: The impact of racial discrimination on health and wellbeing

In this webinar, our panel discussed racial discrimination issues, how they impact on teachers’ wellbeing and explored what we can do to combat the effects of discrimination and abuse.

Sharon Smith was joined by:

Khadija Mohammed, GTC Scotland’s Vice Convener, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of the West of Scotland, and the Chair of SAMEE, Scottish Association of Minority Ethnic Educators;

Yasmeen Hussain, Strategic Alliances and Funding Partner of SAMEE, undertaking research on the impact of racism on educators’ wellbeing at Strathclyde University, and;

Marcia Edwards, a Coordinator and Complementary Therapist at Saheliya, specialist mental health and well-being support organisation for black, minority ethnic, asylum seeker, refugee and migrant women and girls (12+) in the Edinburgh and Glasgow area.