Black History Month 2022

Dr Ray Samuriwo is an Associate Professor in Adult Nursing at the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership. Dr Ray Samuriwo has an emerging international reputation for excellence in research on patient safety and decision making. Ray has a sustained track record of producing peer-reviewed publications on different aspects of patient safety and decision making. The focus of Ray’s work is on conducting research to develop, test, and refine theory that can be used to underpin interventions to improve the quality and safety of patient care. 

Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect, consider, and refocus on the priorities for improving the quality and safety of healthcare that is delivered to all, especially people from minoritized communities, or heritages who often inhabit multiple intersecting identities and are often marginalised.

Damilola Oyetunde is a current master’s student in Human Resource Management at the University of Bradford. She serves as the Black Student's Officer on the student union executive board. As a passionate human services advocate and community volunteer, she has led and served on various committees that quarterly organized seminars, workshops, and career fairs for job seekers and young start-up founders. So far, the team has been responsible for helping these professionals prepare business proposals and prepare them for interviews and investor pitches to propel them to the next stage of their careers. They have successfully served over 1500 young professionals over a 4-year period. She is passionate about helping people and believes strongly in service to humanity. Her future career goal is to set up one of the most sought-after HR consulting firms in the world.

Dr Kweku Adams is an Associate Professor in International Business & Management and the Programme Leader for the MSc International Business and Management at the Bradford School of Management, University of Bradford. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds MBA (Finance)- University of Bedfordshire, Master of Laws (LLM) - University of York, PhD (International Business Management) from Swansea University, among others. Dr. Adams has also held academic positions in North America. First, as a Lecturer in Strategy and Global Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary and a Visiting Lecturer of Management at the University of Lethbridge School of Management in Calgary, Canada.

In Africa, Dr Adams has been a visiting Professor of Management at the University of Education Kumasi, Ghana. He has successfully supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations across these three different continents particularly, Ghana, the UK, and Canada. He has examined several PhD theses in the UK, Canada, Ghana and Pakistan

He has also been a member of several committees including EDI and awarding bodies, and he is currently on the external expert sub-committee at the University of Bradford. He has also consulted for several for-profits and not-for-profit organisations in Canada, the UK, and Ghana including banks, building and construction firms, and multijurisdictional tax advisory services, among others. He has been invited to speak at several universities, NGOs, faith-based organisations, and student union platforms on a wide range of local and global issues that engages his research expertise and professional experience. He is the founding president of the Ghana Scholarly Society in Europe – a learned society with a focus on finding solutions to challenging problems facing Africa.  

His work has appeared in several outlets and he is currently on the Editorial Review Boards of the Thunderbird International Business Review and the Africa Journal of Management (AJG 2* Journals).

See Dr Adams TV interview where he discussed how Africa can develop its human capital.

Hi, I am Sakina Isa Sani, a year 2 nursing student in the university of Bradford and the university’s women NUS delegate for this year.

I am an international student from Nigeria, a country in west Africa. I love riding horses and reading novels. And I’m quite the friendly person.

If there’s anything I’m very passionate about then it’s equestrian influencing and life style influencing. As my dream is to become a professional horse rider some day, I am very keen on documenting my journey while also encouraging females with same passion to go for it against all odds.

If you would love to be a part of my journey, follow me on ig: @sakina_eesa

Claire Edwards is the Placements Administration Manager at the University of Bradford.  Bradford born Claire is mixed race with one parents from the West Indies and the other UK, she has worked at the University for 23 years.  Claire manages the Placements Administration team and has worked in a variety of administrative and IT training roles over the years.  Claire is a recently retired netball player after sustaining an injury, she enjoyed 30 years of competitive netball.  Claire enjoys spending time with her partner and her 4 year old daughter.

I am proud to be a British Kashmiri and Muslim woman, what I like about being Kashmiri is the great food and Kashmiri tea. I think Pakistan is talked about a lot but many don’t realise the surrounding impact of Azad Kashmiri’s in Bradford. How much of a contribution the Kashmiri community has had in Bradford such as the hospitality sector such as Aagrah and sweet centre. How Azad Kashmir is similar to Pakistan but we have our unique identity like the flag, language and food. I am proud of my father and grandfather when they immigrated to Bradford, they build a foundation for me and my family. I think people don’t understand the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents coming to England for better lives. Their generation worked tirelessly so that we should not have to. I hear often from my father the immense factory working hours that were in them days and how Kashmiri immigrants had a stronghold in the labour workforce across Bradford.