The following podcasts were created as part of the University of Leeds Humans of Healthcare series. Staff and students share their challenges, promoting open discussion and the importance of care for those learning and working in healthcare (we do not have to be superheros). Some EDI related topics are linked below.
- BMA Charter to tackle Racial Harassment (47 mins), students and staff (Yasmin Kader speaking on the BMA charter and Robina Mir and Mrs Farhana Mulla as the Faculty of Medicine and Health Freedom to Speak up Guardians).
- Barriers to Getting into Medical School (33 mins) second year medical student speaks about barriers she faced when getting into medical school and how she overcame them.
- Having a disability as a Medical Student (19 mins), a first year medical student at speaks about her experience study medicine after receiving a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2021.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (42 mins), Bridgette Bewick, Associate Professor in Psychological Health, Wellbeing and Education, on leading on EDI and belonging.
- Working with learning difficulties and autism (32 mins), Alison Conyer, Head of the Learning Difficulties and Autism Service within the Leeds teaching Hospital Trust, talks about how the service works and how it was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.