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Photographic Exhibition of Black Female Professors

Bill Knight  has been commissioned to produce a photographic exhibition of black female professors including Professor Gina Higginbottom in the UK. Bill Knight is a distinguished photographer. Featured above is an image of one of Bill Knights theatre photography.  This is Nell Gwyn at the Globe Threatre. His exhibition The Refugee’s Gift at St Martin in the Fields…

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New 2019 Award for Gina Awoko Higginbottom

Gina Awoko Higginbottom has won the Health category of the 2019 Women of Sheffield Awards. For this she has received a trophy, certificate and a feature in the Star – Sheffield’s city newspaper.  Full congratulations are in order. About the Women of Sheffield Awards The Star launched the “Women of Sheffield” awards to celebrate females…

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Self-care is absolutely essential – say Black Female Professors

“Self-care is absolutely essential”: black female professors offer advice to the next generation by Sarah Shaffi Published March 2019 “It’s up to you to decide when and how to speak up, and to whom, and when to keep an eye on the long game and stay quiet” Academia has traditionally been a male-dominated sector, difficult…

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Meghan Markle backs campaign to ‘decolonise the curriculum’

Meghan Markle backs campaign to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ By LEIGH MCMANUS First published 17 February 2019 Meghan Markle backs campaign to ‘decolonise the curriculum’by adding more black women to university staff instead of ‘male, pale, and stale’ professors in her first political intervention since joining the royal family. The movement Meghan is backing aims to…

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Professor takes lead role in nursing network

International Collaboration for Health Nursing Research (ICCHNR) will appoint new Executive Members from 1st January 2019 and Nursing Studies Pam Smith is thrilled to take on the mantle of ICCHNR President. Professor Pam Smith has been appointed as the President of the International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research (ICCHNR). In her new role, which…

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Dr Gina Higginbottom MBE on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour

(Pictured above is Dr Gina Higginbottom with Professor Dunkley Bent and Aleesha Hansel journalist and broadcaster at the Mary Seacole Awards) Dr Gina Higginbottom MBE appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour – Thursday 7 February, 2019 at 10am. Title of the programme #NunsToo: Nuns abused by priests and bishops Woman’s Hour A report released…

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