As part of the Black History Year programme, the University will be hosting an event with John Amaechi OBE in conversation with Professor Catherine Loveday.
This online community seminar is to mark the beginning of Black History Month and the beginning of Westminster’s third Black History Year programme.
The event will take place on Zoom – attendees will be sent the link after they register.
About the speakers
John Amaechi OBE
John Amaechi is an Organisational Psychologist, OBE, Chartered Scientist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, bestselling New York Times author, Research Fellow at the University of East London, and Founder of APS Intelligence Ltd.
Professor Catherine Loveday
Catherine Loveday has been at the University of Westminster for over 30 years and is a strong advocate of Westminster’s progressive, inclusive, compassionate, and outward-facing ethos. Her research focusses on the functions of human memory and in particular on the way that memories are formed, accessed and lost. As a keen musician, Catherine also has a deep fascination with music in the brain and much of her most recent research involves the link between music and memory. She is author of “The Secret World of the Brain”, and is passionate about encouraging public engagement with science, appearing regularly at festivals, as well as writing for the media and making regular appearances on BBC Radio 4’s All In The Mind and many other radio and TV programmes. Catherine is a member of the university’s BME network and is committed to anti-racism both within the University and in wider society.
