Transcultural psychiatry SIG (TSIG) newsletters

Latest issue

Summer 2025

This issue's coverage includes:

• Message from the TSIG Chair: Dr Fabida Aria reflects on her tenure as Chair, expresses gratitude to contributors and members, highlights achievements in transcultural psychiatry, and announces the transition to incoming Chair Dr Saima Niaz.
• Editorial Notes: The editor, Dr Emmeline Lagunes‑Cordoba, introduces the issue with reflections on the passing months and the arrival of summer.
• Updates on TSIG Activities: The newsletter highlights recent involvement in RCPsych initiatives—including equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work and growing external interest from medical schools, college divisions, and trainee groups developing transcultural psychiatry skills.
• Themes of Cultural Curiosity and Future Direction: Emphasis on continuing to foster cultural awareness, avoid assumptions, improve trust with patients from diverse backgrounds, and encourage members to contribute ideas and stay involved in future events.

Call for articles

The TSIG warmly invite you to contribute and share your work with our community.

We welcome submissions of articles, brief reports, blog posts, reflections, recent achievements, book publications, research updates, clinical insights, community initiatives, or any other contributions you would like to see featured. You can include the relevant photos. This is a wonderful opportunity to highlight the diverse and meaningful work taking place across our network.

Whether your contribution is scholarly, reflective, creative, or practice-focused, we would be delighted to include it.

Please submit your entries by 14 March 2026. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or ideas you would like to discuss.

Please send your submissions to sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk using subject line 'TSIG Spring 2026 Newsletter Submission'

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