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South Asian History Month: Registrar Trudi Seneviratne
In our fourth blog for South Asian History Month, RCPsych Registrar Dr Trudi Seneviratne OBE discusses becoming a psychiatrist and the people that helped shape her career.
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Look after nature so nature can look after us
Dr Catriona Mellor explains what mental health clinicians can do in response to the climate and ecological crisis.
Sustainability blog team -
South Asian History Month: An interview with actress, filmmaker and psychiatrist Dr Parvinder Shergill
As part of our blog series celebrating the College’s first South Asian History Month, Dr Parvinder Shergill reflects on her multi-faceted career spanning psychiatry, speaking and film-making.
RCPsych Digital Team -
South Asian History Month: Beans on Toast or Palak Paneer?
To celebrate the College's inaugural South Asian History Month, Dr Shahid Latif writes on the contributions of South Asian doctors to the NHS.
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Meet the Member special: Professor Gerry Lynch
In this special feature, Professor Gerry Lynch reflects on his time as Chair of RCPsych NI.
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Literature Searching: the Good, the Bad and the Epic Failures
A blog post about literature searching and how it can go dramatically wrong!
Library and archives team -
South Asian History Month: My career in 'firsts'
In the first of our South Asian History Month blogs, our former Vice President Pearl Hettiaratchy reflects back on a colourful and challenging career, from adjusting to a new life ...
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Working in the time of COVID-19 - "I'm not loving it" - Dr Elaine Lockhart
In this months blog, the Chair of our Child and Adolescent Faculty in Scotland Dr Elaine Lockhart reflects on her experience working during the pandemic and the impact on services....
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Meet the Member: Dr Liz Dawson
It’s been quite an exciting first few weeks for Dr Liz Dawson in her role as a POA Consultant in the Southern Trust’s Gillis Memory Centre.
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Last train journey as President
In her final blog as President, Wendy reflects on an amazing and eventful three years in the role, with her usual honesty and humour.
Professor Wendy Burn -
LGBTQ History Month: From a Psychiatrist and Service User
In February 2020, we interviewed two members of the LGBTQ community, who both have different experiences of the community, and of course their own unique relationship with mental health services....
RCPsych Digital Team -
Bisexual Mental Health
A blog post for Pride Month about bisexual mental health.
Library and archives team -
Improvements to public spaces could mitigate the mental health effects of COVID-19 lockdowns
In this blog we argue that making more space on our roads so that people can easily walk, run or cycle, is not just about travel but also for good ...
Dr Guy Harvey -
PTC blog - June 2020
Life has been very strange over the last few months or so and we hope that you are keeping well. It is so important to take time for yourself, to ...
Laura Stevenson -
A quick look at online archive resources on the history of the College
A blog post about the archive resources available to those researching the history of the College.
Library and archives team -
Filmmaking, Phantom Pregnancies and Pride with Dr Parvinder Shergill
In this interview we speak to Dr Parvinder Shergill and explore her latest project: an LGBT Black, Asian and minority ethnic short film which features pseudocyesis; a phantom pregnancy. Dr ...
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Black Lives Matter – a post by our Chief Executive Paul Rees
Our Chief Executive, Paul Rees, has written a powerful and moving blog post about systemic racism and his own experiences as a black person living and working in the UK....
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Some notes for A House Through Time, BBC 2, Tuesday 2 June 2020, 9pm by Dr Claire Hilton
A blog post to complement the episode of A House Through Time, airing on BBC2 on the 2nd of June, 2020. Giving more information about mental health of William Henry ...
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Holding onto what matters
To mark Pride 2020, Dr Maire Cooney discusses how the concept of physical distancing may already be familiar to LGBT+ people, and celebrates the importance of visibility and acceptance.
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The College carries on
In her May blog, Wendy reflects on an exceptional few weeks and updates on events, training, exams, wellbeing support and much more.
Professor Wendy Burn