Transcultural psychiatry SIG (TSIG) newsletters

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Spring 2026

This issue's coverage includes:

• Leadership and direction: Reflections from the Chair on TSIG’s progress, leadership transition, and renewed focus on strengthening transcultural psychiatry within the College and globally.
• Global collaboration and events: Highlights from major national and international conferences and community‑led events, including the first joint TSIG and VIPSIG conference and wider diaspora engagement.
• Culture in everyday practice: Concise reflections on how culture, migration, trauma, faith, and identity shape clinical understanding across community and acute psychiatric settings.
• Voices, creativity and what’s next: A diverse range of contributions celebrating lived experience, scholarship, and creativity, alongside invitations to get involved in future TSIG activities and publications.

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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