Thriving while leading: Global Majority voices from health and care

Description

This event will explore leadership, identity, and lived experience within the health and care sectors through the lens of the panel’s extensive expertise. Bringing together voices from creative practice, policy, community leadership, and lived experience. Looking into how they intersect to shape more inclusive and equitable systems of care.

This discussion will consider how co-production, representation, and storytelling can challenge inequality and inspire structural change, with particular focus on amplifying underrepresented voices in health and social care. It will highlight the evolving role of leadership – from community-led action to policy influence – and how authenticity and resilience can drive meaningful transformation.

About Corrine

Corinne Walker is a Bristol-based writer, director, creative producer and performer. She makes political yet playful work representative of the world we see around us. She has worked across audio, animation, film and theatre. Her Arts Council funded play The Fight Well Project exploring the experience of black women in the healthcare system premiered in September 2024 and toured to London, Bristol and Plymouth. It is now in further development.

Corinne recently completed the Channel 4 New Writers Scheme where she wrote her first full-length drama pilot. Her BFI NETWORK-funded film Homegrown has screened at BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying festivals including Encounters and Norwich and internationally at festivals in Canada and the U.S. She is an alumni of We are Parable’s Momentum scheme, BFI Network SW’s New Voices scheme, BFI Network’s Script Development Lab and was commissioned by BBC New Creatives for her first short film Clifford, a comedy short which she wrote and directed.

About Sophie

Sophie Chester-Glyn is Managing Director of a local care organisation. Sophie is also director of Coproduce Care, a community interest company which aims at democratising the social care debate by supporting the care sector to influence care policy and law. Coproduce Care has also worked on projects for The Health Foundation, Health Education England and local care leaders.

Sophie has also been part of various advisory groups on social care. These have included the BAME Communities Advisory Group to Sir David Behan’s COVID19 report, the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard and the Challenge Board to Sir Gordon Messenger’s report on Health and Social Care Leadership. She is currently on the Workforce Advisory Group to the Department of Health and Social Care and a Trustee for the Care Worker’s Charity.

Sophie is currently doing PhD research on patient experiences in mental health hospitals and has a passion for promoting the voices of those who draw on care services and work in the sector.

Sophie is a mother of three and enjoys reading and country walks in her spare time.

About Lorraine

Councillor Lorraine Francis qualified as a social worker over 35 years ago and is now a qualified therapist. She has been a Green Party Councillor representing Eastville ward since 2021 and has been the chair of Bristol City Council’s Adult Social Care Committee since May 2024.

Lorraine has worked in a generic social worker role giving her a wealth of experience across many sectors and has also worked in the voluntary and education sectors, with experience as a non-teaching head of year for several years focusing on behaviour and student and staff wellbeing. Now a qualified therapist, Lorrine has spent 7 years working within secondary mental health before becoming a school counsellor.

Lorraine is committed to challenging all inequalities, particularly around race and health, and supporting the wellbeing of young people facing significant challenges. Lorraine sees the nations’ health and wellbeing as being crucial to developing equal communities and champions these causes in her work

About BDAS

The Bristol Distinguished Address Series (BDAS) is brought to you by UWE Bristol, and provides an opportunity to hear unique perspectives and insights from change makers, activists, entrepreneurs, and people who have achieved amazing things in Bristol and beyond.

About UWE Equity

UWE Equity a positive action coaching programme for Global Majority students providing personal and professional development opportunities. As part of the programme there are speaker events linked to our Bristol Distinguished Address Series – last year’s event was Crossing Generations with Dr. Edson Burton & Guests.

There are also targeted initiatives for Global majority students in the form of insight sessions, webinars and for undergraduate students the option to undertake coaching/skills sessions together with mentoring.

Programme

18:00 Arrival & registration in Foyer.

18:30 Event starts in Cinema 1 / livestream begins.

19:30 Q&A.

19:45 Event ends / livestream ends.

19:45–21:00 Networking and drinks

Accessibility

UWE Bristol welcomes all abilities/disabilities, ages, ethnicities, and genders to our events. If you have any questions, concerns or additional requirements then please let us know, by contacting events@uwe.ac.uk, so that we can make your time at this event as comfortable as possible.

Venue information:

Disabled parking: No

Step-free access: Yes

Accessible toilets: Yes

Assisted Listening: Yes

Guide/assistance dog-friendly: Yes

Quiet spaces available: Yes