ANGIE KUMAH
MENTAL HEALTH PHD RESEARCHER
Angela Kumah is currently conducting her PhD research at the Birmingham City University, aimed at improving culturally sensitive mental health promotion among Black African and Afro-Caribbean communities in Birmingham. Employing a salutogenic, organizational development model called appreciative inquiry, she hopes to explore the subject of resilience within the Black community in relation to culture and mental health, in an attempt to encourage service user input in mental health service design and delivery. She is also a Graduate research and teaching assistant at BCU in the Public health Department.
Before joining BCU, she received her MSc in Abnormal and Clinical psychology from Swansea University. During this time, she volunteered in a dementia care home and worked as a placement student in the palliative care ward of Morriston Hospital, Swansea, with the Motor Neurone Disease care team. She has also worked as a community mental health support worker and juvenile rehabilitation officer in her home country, Ghana.
Currently as part of her Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant role, she also supports various projects run by the United Community Activity Network (UCAN) a Birmingham-based charity, within her capacity as a mental health professional. Within this role, she provides advice, online resources and deliver digital mental health and wellbeing related programmes, collaborating with various voluntary sector organizations in Black African and Caribbean communities in the city.
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