The Making of 100 Great Black Britons

Patrick Vernon OBE BBC Great Britons Campaign 2001-2002

100 Great Black Britons campaign 2003-2004 Results and Impact of Campaign 2004-2019 2013 vs Michael Gove • 16 Years new achievers • More historical research and publications • and raising issues of identity of britishness and Black British Identity • Opportunity to publish book and board game as education resource and family learning 2019 Campaign

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2020 100 Great Black Britons

Dr Maggie Aderin- Pocock Space scientist, science communicator and presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night. She completed a PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1994, after an undergraduate degree in Physics also at Imperial. She is Managing Director of Science Innovation Ltd, through which she organises public engagement activities which show school children and adults the wonders of space. DAME ELIZABETH ANIONWU Nurse and transform care for people with sickle cell disease Dr

British retired psychiatrist and academic who spent the majority of his medical career at St George's Hospital in London, UK, specialising in transcultural psychiatry and writing literature on changing attitudes towards black people and mental health. He has carried out extensive research on racism and mental illness and is the first black consultant psychiatrist appointed by Britain's National Health Service (NHS). • Alongside careers in research, science, technology and Sir Geoff teaching, brewing science pioneer Professor Sir has contributed greatly to civil society and has a keen interest Palmer in Scottish-Caribbean historical connections. Lord Victor Adebowale • Chair of NHS Confederation and former CEO od Turning Point, the social enterprise organisation that provides health and care services in more than 300 locations across England, where he has been chief executive since 2001.

• He is a Visiting Professor and Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, a Fellow of the City & Guilds of London Institute, and an associate member of the Health Service Management Centre at the . Victor served as a non-executive director on the Board of NHS England from 2012 to 2018.

• Lord Adebowale is a long-standing campaigner against health inequalities. DR ELAINE ARNOLD

• Elaine Arnold, taught social work students (MSW courses) at Goldsmiths College, and Sussex University. She was Director of Training at Nafsiyat (Intercultural Therapy Centre). She researched the adverse effects of separation and loss and sometimes traumatic reunions, due to immigration from the West Indies, to Britain among some families of African Caribbean origin, she is Director of #Supporting Relationships and Families, formerly known as Separation and Reunion Forum. The aim of the organisation is to raise awareness of the importance of secure early attachment in the life of the individual.

• The phenomenon of broken attachments and traumatic reunions is applicable to other groups in the society and to children separated through various circumstances. Elaine currently lectures at various colleges and voluntary groups on the Theory of Attachment, Separation and Loss and its applicability to practice in the caring professions. JOHN EDMONSTONE – THE MAN WHO TAUGHT DARWIN John Blanke

Winifred Atwell Jazz pianist Dame

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