EULAC_6595 Barbados "" This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669. eulac3d Site TEXT University of St Andrews EULAC "" "Born in Barbados but raised in Reading, Karen has been in media for 22 years and is currently Chairperson of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK with billings over \u00a3l billion. Prior to this Karen was CEO for 5 years.\r\nKaren has been instrumental not only in the success of MediaCom, but in championing diversity throughout the advertising and media industry. In 2012 Karen launched the first ever Government backed Apprentice Scheme for the sector, where the apprentices qualify for an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) in Marketing and Communications.\r\nIn June 2014, Karen received an OBE in the Queen\u2019s Birthday honours and in 2015 Karen was the first business woman to be named Britain\u2019s Most Influential Black person in the Power List.\r\nIn 2015 Karen was appointed as one of four external advisors to help diversify the Civil Service, and as a DIT (Department for International Trade) Business Ambassador for No 10. Karen is also a Non-Exec for Creative England whose\u2019 focus is to support new and emerging talent in the Creative Industry helping grow the UK Economy. In March 2016 Karen became the President of NABS, the advertising industry charity which focuses on health and wellbeing in the workplace and presenting the business case for Diversity.\r\n" Person "Barbados-born Roland Butcher secured his place in history when he became the first black player to represent England, making his Test debut at Bridgetown in 1980-81 (the headline in the local paper was "Our boy, their bat"). A batsman capable of playing the most thrilling, attacking innings, Butcher was sadly, and frustratingly, inconsistent, his compulsion to hit every ball hard and far usually his undoing. For every onslaught there were a dozen disappointments. More than once he saved his contract with Middlesex with a brilliant hundred. \r\nButcher moved to England at the age of 14, joined Middlesex in 1974 and was picked for two ODIs against Australia in 1980 on the strength of county form. A run-a-ball fifty in the second game, allied to an unbeaten half-century in the Gillette Cup final that September, secured him a place on the tour of the Caribbean, but his technique against fast bowlers was exposed and he was never considered again. \r\nIn 1983 he suffered a sickening injury which threatened his eyesight when struck by George Ferris, but he returned and continued to entertain and frustrate until he retired in 1990. \r\nOne blemish in his final years was a brief involvement with the planned rebel tour of South Africa in 1989 - he withdrew when media reaction threatened the success of his benefit. \r\nAs a fielder, he was among the best, either swooping in the outfield or, in latter years, in the slips. After retiring he pursued business interests as well as coaching a variety of sides, including Tasmania and Bermuda. \r\nIn November, 2004 he was appointed director of sports at the University of the West Indies' Cave Hill Campus. \r\nHe was also a good enough footballer to play semi-pro for Stevenage and Biggleswade" Person "Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge was born in Barbados and like many Caribbean families in the late 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s migrated to the UK to seek a better life. Educated at Speightstown Boys School and Black Bess Boys School in Barbados, he continued his education at Alfred Sutton Boys in Reading, and later Clarendon College in Nottingham, where he developed a love for cricket, a game for which he would later become world famous.\r\nHe had the opportunity to display his cricket prowess playing in Reading, Berkshire and Hampshire and the England Boys School benefitted from his cricket skills. Even though he represented Barbados and the West Indies in cricket, he was still able to make a meaningful contribution to his adopted homeland of the United Kingdom.\r\nWhilst still an apprentice at Hampshire, he represented three different clubs playing on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. He was also privileged to play League Cricket for Leyland in the Lancashire League, playing 19 years for one club. Not only has he been a player but he also conducted Cricket Coaching Clinics at several places, including Nottingham High School and Merchant Taylor\u2019s School. Schools in Scotland have also benefitted from his skills when playing for the club Greenock, which he also represented at the National Level. He continues to be involved in fund raising programmes for clubs and schools throughout the UK." Person "Stuart McPhail Hall, Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and academic (born Feb. 3, 1932, Kingston, Jamaica \u2014 died Feb. 10, 2014, London, England), was a pioneer in the field of cultural studies, an interdisciplinary approach to the role of social institutions in the shaping of culture and \u201cthe networks of meanings which individuals and groups use to make sense of and communicate with one another.\u201d \r\nHall attained international stature in 1979 when he coined the term \u201cThatcherism\u201d to describe the phenomenon of the broad (and ultimately long-lasting) political, economic, and cultural changes that would eventually be wrought by incoming Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her conservative supporters. \r\nHe later chastised leftist thinkers and politicians for underestimating Thatcherism\u2019s enduring popularity among disillusioned working-class people and for failing to counter the harshest elements of Thatcherism with a compelling alternative that would promote multiculturalism, environmentalism, and civil rights. " Person "Born in Barbados in 1941, in his teens Trevor became an outstanding leader in the Church Lads\u2019 Brigade, first visiting the UK on its behalf, aged 16. In the early 60s, he travelled to England to work for London Transport while maintaining his commitment to community and youth work through the church. This led to a post as Administrator for the Church of England Board of Education, and the early beginnings of his influence on national thought and practice in race relations. He moved to Rugby in Community Relations, focusing specifically on young people, where his creative methods soon brought the very diverse communities of the town together, reaching the lives of children, young people, and adults alike. Never afraid to tackle the big issues, he initiated research, developed community initiatives, and pioneered multiracial youth international exchanges. He created innovative training programmes, gaining the confidence of communities, police, and local authority, to bring people together in challenging times in terms of race equality. With significant race relations legislation just beginning to emerge, Trevor\u2019s skills and expertise were soon noticed at the national level and he was appointed in 1982 to the Home Office as Race Equality Adviser to the Permanent Secretary. Trevor was instrumental in transforming policy and practice, whilst maintaining absolute integrity and independent thought.\r\nAs the most senior black civil servant of the time, Trevor was promoted to join the Management Board, sharing perspectives and initiatives at the very highest levels, always keeping in mind the interests of those unable easily to communicate with those in power. Trevor\u2019s initiatives in training senior police, magistracy, senior judges and immigration service had a lasting impact, significantly changing race relations practice. Throughout, Trevor never lost track of his commitment to young people and communities, taking on the roles of Chair of the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, and Vice Chair of the National Youth Bureau. In the mid-80s, he spearheaded the establishment of the Windsor Fellowship, creating leadership development programmes for young Black and Asian undergraduates to enable them to compete positively in both public and private sectors, where they were significantly under-represented at senior level. Conventional retirement was not an option and on leaving the Home Office, Trevor was asked to continue as Race Advisor to the Lord Chancellor\u2019s Department, and he continues even now to direct Windsor Fellowship programmes.\r\nIn recognition of his outstanding work, Trevor has been recognised both by academia, through an honorary Doctorate in Law and Letters, and by government, having been awarded both an OBE and the CBE" Person "Born on the 12th of March 1927, Aaron attended Combermere School after which he travelled to Trinidad to attend the Seventh Day Adventist College. He graduated from there in 1945, gaining a teaching posting at an elementary school in San Juan and Sangre Grande two years later. Two years at Port of Spain Secondary School prepared him for the post of Principal of Southern Academy. Two years later, he left to attend Long Island University in Brooklyn N.Y, where he majored in biology while working at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a technician in the blood laboratory.\r\nHe came to England in 1965 and at first taught biology and chemistry at Pollards Hill Secondary School before entering the field of Race and Community Relations. He served as senior community relations officer in Wolverhampton before moving on to the Community Relations Commission as Principal Development Officer. He held several posts in the Commission for Racial Equality, culminating in the post of Chief Executive.\r\nAfter retiring from the Commission, he functioned as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of The State of Black Britain Volume One, first published in 1983, which carries an analysis of the forces that governed the post-war immigration of black people into Britain. It covers the search for jobs and housing, the challenges faced in education and social services and how race became a volatile political issue. Volume Two picks up where Volume One concludes and begins with an analysis of the Thatcher years and their impact on the Black community. Together the two volumes represent a comprehensive, honest, insider\u2019s view of the struggle for equality in Britain" Person "Nola Ishmael left Barbados In 1963 to start her nursing career in the National Health Service (NHS) at a hospital in Bishops Stortford. She later moved to the Whittington Hospital in London to gain her State Registration Qualification. Within 18 months of qualifying as a nurse she was promoted to Unit Sister in the Neurosurgical Unit of the Maudsley Hospital in London. Later she went on to qualify as a Health visitor. In 1981, she became a Community Manager and in 1987 became Assistant Director of Nursing in Greenwich. Eighteen months later she was appointed Director of Nursing, thereby becoming the first black Nursing Director in the NHS in London.\r\nNola was invited in 1994 to the Department of Health for six months which evolved into a ten year tenure, where she worked closely with Ministers and Chief Nursing Officers in different roles, including Professional Private Secretary to the Chief Nursing Officer. She later added Nursing Policy responsibilities in Public Health areas and Black and Minority Ethnic issues to her portfolio.\r\nNola initiated programmes of mentoring, coaching and personal development, and collaborated on the establishment of the Mary Seacole Leadership Awards. She co-produced the Department\u2019s publication Many Rivers to Cross which chronicled the contribution of Caribbean staff to the NHS. She worked closely with organisations such as Barbados Overseas Nursing Association (BONA) and the Royal College of Nursing, as well as sitting on the boards of a number of charitable organisations. She is Patron of the Sickle Cell Society and past Vice Chair of Greenwich Community College. Nola is active as a mentor and motivational speaker. She travelled across the UK and overseas including Australia, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean, including Barbados, representing the Department of Health. Nola is a member of the High Commission Health and Welfare Group.\r\nNola\u2019s service was recognised in the NHS with her receiving the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours in 2000, and an Honorary Doctorate degree for services to Nursing from Birmingham City University. She also received a Breakthrough Equality Award from the Wainwright Trust and Nursing Times Magazine\u2019s recognition as one of top 50 Influential Nurses in the last 100years.\r\nNola was among 15 Health Leaders who had a Portrait displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2006" Person "Dalton McConney is a retired Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector. He mostly served as a uniformed officer in South London and came to prominence following the second Brixton riots In the mid-eighties. He was born in Barbados and educated at Ebenezer Boys and the Modern High School. He worked as a proof reader at the Barbados Advocate newspaper and at the Government Printing Office before joining the economic migration to the UK in I960.\r\nAged 36, he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1976. He served as a Constable at Battersea, Sergeant at Belgravia and a Recruit Instructor at Hendon Police College. He obtained the Certificate of Education (University of London), helped to research the new Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984, updated the Training Manual and taught the changes in the Act to instructors. He passed the Inspector\u2019s examination in 1988 and was posted to Brixton after the second riots.\r\nHe was the first senior black officer to serve at Brixton Police Station in the Borough of Lambeth. gaining the trust of residents and helping to lower tensions. He also set up the \u201cBrixton Summer Project\u201d during the school holidays, engaging local unemployed youth as staff. A two-part C4 documentary, \u201cThe Brixton Beat\u201d, highlighted Dalton\u2019s role in the changes at Brixton. He received a Lambeth Civic Award, the Mayor\u2019s Special Award and in 1994 was awarded the MBE for Police\/Community Service.\r\nHe was promoted to Chief Inspector in 1994, becoming Staff Officer to the Assistant Commissioner. As Personnel Manager at Walworth Police Station, he set up the first Criminal Justice Unit and formulated a strategy to deal with street robbery (Operation Eagle Eye)i. He received two Assistant Commissioner\u2019s Commendations for this work.\r\nAfter serving in Bromley, he returned to Lambeth where he devised the Policing Diversity Strategy and Community\/ Race Relations programme. He was awarded the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, featured in books highlighting black achievements for the Millennium and was one of the subjects of the \u201cBlack Power\u201d photographic exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. On retirement, he was awarded the Queen\u2019s Police Medal for Distinguished Police Service and later received an Assistant Commissioner\u2019s Commendation for work on Critical Incident Management. Dalton also supports various Barbadian Organisations in London and continues to use the high profile of his career to promote Barbados." Person "Sir (Oshely) Roy Marshall was born on October 21, 1920. He was one of 6 children who lost their father when Roy was 10 years old. His mother Korine worked tirelessly to support and allow the family to thrive.\r\nHe was educated at Harrison College, where he won the Barbados Scholarship in 1938. His further education was delayed through illness and World War II and it was not until 1942 that he entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours in 1945. He took a master\u2019s in 1948 and was awarded a doctorate from University College, London in the same year. He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1947. \r\nFrom 1946 until 1969, Sir Roy taught law full-time: from 1946 until 1956 as assistant lecturer and then lecturer at University College, London; from 1956 until 1963, and 1965 until 1969 as professor of law at the University of Sheffield; and from 1963 until 1965 as professor of law at the University of Ife in Nigeria,\r\nHe was a constitutional advisor to the Government of Barbados at the Independence Talks with the United Kingdom in 1966 and one of the Law Revision commissioners responsible for the edition of laws published in 1974. In 1979, he drafted a comprehensive package of statutes on property and related matters for the island.\r\nIn 1969,he began a new career in university administration, becoming vice-chancellor of the UWI and served until 1977. He was also secretary general of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom Universities from 1974 to 1979 and Vice\u00ad Chancellor of the University of Hull from 1979 to 1985.After retirement, he entered yet another field, serving as High Commissioner for Barbados in London from 1989 to 1991. He served as Chair of the Commission for Law and Order appointed by the Government. At Cave Hill, the campus\u2019 principal teaching facility is named the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex in his honour." Person "Born in Barbados on 30 October in 1934,Sam came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and started his working life with London Transport as a conductor and later a driver of trolley and diesel buses. He worked with London Transport until 1986,when he was retired on medical grounds.\r\nHis political and trade union activity started in 1958. He played a very active role in the 1958 bus strike and served on the Transport and General Workers Union until his retirement. He campaigned for changes to the 1968 Race Relations Act and stood on the Home Secretary\u2019s Standing Advisory Council on Race Relations for seven years. In 1982 he became the first Black Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, having served as a Council Member of Council from 1968 to 1986, and Member of the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority.\r\nHe served as a Member of Industrial Tribunals from 1976 until 1996, and on the Employment Appeals Tribunal from 1984, only retiring on 31 March 2005 at the age of seventy years. From 1967 he served as a Member and\/or Chairman of a number of Statutory and Voluntary Bodies, Schools, Colleges, Polytechnics, and the Guildhall University, as well as commercial undertakings. He was a member of the London Employment Conciliation Committee of the Race Relations Board.\r\nHe spearheaded the Twinning of Barbados with Hackney in 1982 and is a Founder Director Trustee of the Barbados UK Education Bursary Trust. In 2004 he was elected as Chairman of the Democratic Labour Party (UK), an Associate Branch of the Barbados Democratic Labour Party. He is a Trustee of the Hackney\/Barbados Education Bursary Trust, Caribbean Families and Friends in Crisis, and was Chairman of the Errol Barrow Memorial Statue Fund.\r\nIn 1976 he was awarded the MBE for services to Race and Community Relations and in 1984 admitted to the Freedom of the City of London. Appointed a Deputy of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, he served until 2010. He was the first recipient of the Caribbean Times Award and has played a significant role in the development of Carnival Arts and Steel Orchestra" Person "Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a Barbadian British thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing. \r\nStoute, (born 22 October 1945) whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan and began training horses on his own in 1972.\r\nSir Michael Stoute began training in 1972. His first Classic victory came six years later with Fair Salinia in the 1978 Oaks, since when he has never ceased production of top-class winners from Freemason Lodge, Newmarket. \r\nChampion trainer ten times, he has won twenty five Classics in England and Ireland, including five Investec Derbies, three Breeders\u2019 Cups, two Japan Cups and the Dubai World Cup. \r\nIn 2010 the former Derby winner Workforce provided him with his first win in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe." Person "Sir Kenneth Stuart was educated at Harrison College in Barbados and Queens University in Belfast. Sir Kenneth served as Professor and Dean of the Department of Medicine at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; a consultant at University Hospital, Jamaica ; and consultant adviser to the Wellcome Trust. He also served as a past medical adviser to the Commonwealth Secretariat ,London, and as the Honorary Medical and Scientific Adviser to the Barbados High Commission.\r\nA former Chairman of the Court of Governors of the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the council of Governors of Guys\u2019, Kings and St. Thomas\u2019s Hospitals Medical School, London, Sir Kenneth has published many articles in medical journals on hepatic and cardiovascular disorders. In a letter to \u2018The Independent\u2019 in 1996 he called for a national council to respond to emerging medical issues, issues that could not be left entirely to doctors, scientists and lawyers. \u201cIt is time that society gave Tiers attention to the processes (other than the current \u2018fire- alarm approaches) by which such questions might be dealt with in the future. There is clearly a need for some form of National Ethical Council with a wide-ranging membership, whose role would not only be to review the issues that stemmed or seemed likely to stem from medical scientific advance \u201d he wrote, "but also to promote community understanding and discussion of them.\u201d\r\nSir Kenneth Stuart is a member of the Academic Board of St. George\u2019s University and a member of the Board of Directors of the UK Trust for the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation(WINDREF). He is also a patron of Doctors for Human Rights and trustee of London Lighthouse. In 1986, he received an Honorary DSc from Queen\u2019s University in Belfast." Person "The London Borough of Ealing and the black education movement in London bear the imprint of Willis Darnley Wilkie\u2019s tireless struggle for children\u2019s education rights and social justice.\r\nBorn on the 3rd of October 1926, Willis was one of that early group of post-War migrants recruited from Barbados to come and work on London Transport. Arriving in 1955,he was to spend the following fifty-eight years of his life in public service; initially as a transport worker, then local government officer, social worker, teacher, community organiser, political activist and independent consultant. Like so many others of his generation, his life was spent within the crucible of British racism, an experience that defined the trajectory of his life and his achievements against all the odds.\r\nWillis became a social worker with Kensington & Chelsea and then in Ealing, and was highly respected among his colleagues and the entire community. Despite the demands of the job, he made time, with his late wife Edna Wilkie, to act as a one-man citizens advice bureau, law centre, housing and welfare rights service and education advocacy service. He firmly believed in collective action in pursuit of change in society and so pooled his skills and expertise with others. In 1975 he and others founded the Caribbean Parents Group which became a powerful voice and advocate for parents and students. That led in 1980 to the establishment of a Supplementary school. Willis and Edna played a major part in its creation and running over many years. He went on to run small support groups for young people, encouraging them to get training and pursue their careers. He was not only concerned with the social and educational wellbeing of the community, but also its economic disadvantage. Thus, he led the CPG in setting up a credit union in 1990 which operated successfully until 2012.\r\nWiIlis was twice nominated for a gong from the Queen and each time he refused, in part because he always felt his achievements were the result of collective effort. He did however, cherish the recognition of his local community. In March 2004 he was given the top prize in Ealing\u2019s inaugural Pride in Our People Award: \u2018for the massive difference he made in the lives of those around him\u2019. Other awards, including awards in his name, and recognition have followed." Person "Wilfred Denniston Wood KA (born 15 June 1936) was Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England\r\nBorn in Barbados to Wilfred Coward and Elsie Elmira Wood, in Proute, St Thomas, Wood [later Sir Wilfred] attended Southborough Boys\u2019 Primary School and Combermere School.\r\nHaving being ordained Deacon on the island after completion of studies in 1962, Bishop Wood\u2019s journey had just begun as he was sent to the Diocese of London, first serving in a parish called St. Stephen\u2019s Shepherd\u2019s Bush, where he served as a curate, then honorary curate, of St Thomas with St Stephen, Shepherd\u2019s Bush, until 1974.\r\nHe soon came to wider attention in Britain for speaking out on racial injustice. In 1974 he joined the Diocese of Southwark, where he stayed until his retirement.\r\nIn 1977 he was appointed Rural Dean of East Lewisham and Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Southwark from 1982 until his consecration as Bishop of Croydon in 1985, where he oversaw the Croydon Episcopal Area and assisted the Bishop of Southwark.\r\nThroughout his Ministry, Bishop Wood had a strong interest in race relations and social justice in London, as it was for this interest that he was appointed the Bishop of London Officer in race relations, also serving on a number of other important boards, from 1978 to 1981." Person 13.190479318453653 -59.560661315917976