Human Rights Advisory Group

Dr Shakiba Moghadam, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFHEA, is a Chartered Psychologist and a lecturer in Psychology at Solent University, with a specific focus on Community Psychology, and Sport and Exercise Psychology.

Shakiba's research predominantly focuses on mental health literacy and athlete mental health, experiences of women athletes in male dominated sports, human rights violations in sports, and the experiences of marginalised communities such as refugees and asylum seekers.

Shakiba is one of four leads on the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science's SEPAR equality, diversity and inclusivity training workshops for upcoming sport psychologists, and a panel member for the Universities of Sanctuary.

She is also appointed as a trustee for three charities that work directly with marginalised communities.  

Tony Wainwright is a clinical psychologist and deputy academic director at the University of Exeter Clinical Psychology training programme.

He has recently co-edited a book on human rights education for psychologists and is a member of the steering group of the Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights.

He has a long-standing interest in the role psychology has played in protecting human rights and also the part they have played in human rights violations. He co-edited a special issue of the European Psychologist on psychology and human rights.

He is the immediate past chair of the British Psychological Society Climate and Environmental Crisis Steering group and has been a long-standing campaigner to bring the issue of climate change to public and professional attention.

He is a past chair of the BPS Ethics Committee and a recent past member of its steering group on psychology and human rights.  He teaches, among other things, on human rights, ethics, leadership, prevention and public health.

Clara is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology on the Clinical Doctorate in psychology at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and as a member of the anti-racism group in the Clinical Doctorate in the UK.

She also worked as the Ethics & Integrity Lead role in Clinical Psychology and, between 2019 and 2022, as Deputy Director of Research (Research Ethics and Research Integrity) at the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. 

Clara's main research interests are in the areas of Cross- cultural Neuropsychology, Global mental health and Ethics in clinical and global research https://www.ethical-global-research.ed.ac.uk/.  

Social justice is the main drive of her research and clinical work, by promoting principles of equity, ethics, participation, dialogue with culturally diverse populations, and those at risk of social injustice. 

Mrs Ekta Mistry, CPsychol, a Forensic Psychologist with 16 years of experience working with people in prison with complex needs comprising trauma, mental health, personality and neurodiversity.

Ekta is experienced at delivering group-based and individual interventions using a variety of models including CBT, DBT and CFT.

Her experience also includes working with people in prison who self-harm or have suicidal ideation. 

August 2018, aged 60 years, I stepped out of the wider societal in-group, to be my authentic self, a transgender woman.

In that one moment I became part of a marginalised out-group, and my life changed in unimaginable ways.

My desire to understand societal discomfort with authenticy caused me to give up a global executive career in business to read the science of psychology at Northumbria University.

I want to help individuals and businesses to embrace authenticity with love and joy, with minds open to everything and closed to nothing.

It is a privilege to be invited to serve on the Human Rights Advisory board, picking up the baton to make a contribution to bending the long arc of the moral universe, toward justice for all (Parker, 1855).

Dr Carlotta Raby (Lotta) is a clinical psychologist, and works full time for the NHS (she currently manages a paediatric mental health team and operationally manages a Tier 4 CAMHS inpatient unit).

Lotta previously studied global human rights law and international politics, and is passionate about children's rights within health/ mental health settings.

She is leading on projects to reduce restrictive practice and embed trauma-informed systems in acute paediatric/ CAMHS settings.

Prior to training as a clinical psychologist, Lotta had undertaken national participation roles with YoungMinds, the Mental Health Foundation and the Anna Freud Centre/ Evidence Based Practice Unit.

Lotta has specialised in treating children and young people for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD, and her recent research has focussed on identifying the mental health needs of gang involved young people, with the aim of reducing violence and increasing safety.

Outside of her NHS work, Lotta volunteers with the British Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières psychosocial units. She founded Action for Child Trauma International. She is says it is an honour for her to be selected to join the BPS Human Rights Advisory Group.

Professor Rachel Tribe is based at the School of Psychology, University of East London and the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Queen Mary, University of London. She regularly undertakes international and national training and consultancy work and has been invited to work in over 40 countries.

Her most recent co-edited book is D. Moussaoui., D. Bhugra, R. Tribe. & A. Ventriglio (2021) (eds) Migration, Mental Health and Mental Illness. New York: Springer. She is currently co-editing a book with Professor Dinesh Bhugra on Social Justice, Social Discrimination and Mental Health: Theory, Practice, and Professional Issues.

She has edited 7 books and written approximately 130 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has written and edited 6 sets of guidelines for the BPS.

In 2016, with Dr Farkhondeh Farsimadan she set up an online resource for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Health and Social Care Professionals working alongside them. The online portal contains resources for adults and children and is updated yearly. The portal can be accessed at:-

Access the online portal for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Health and Social Care Professionals

I'm a Graduate Member of the BPS and currently work in Higher Education.

My background is mainly educational and developmental psychology, and over the past year I've developed an interest in political psychology and wellbeing.

I'm also interested in EDI and decolonisation.

Dr Stephanie Davis Le Brun is a clinical psychologist working in older people's mental health in the NHS.

She completed a research project on human rights on acute mental health wards further highlighting the need for improvements in these settings, as well as bringing to light the impact of the environment on human rights.

Since this, she has been involved in projects such as offering a 'help to vote' clinic and consulting on the proposed changes to the Mental Health Act.

She is interested in further exploring how we can better measure human rights outcomes in public health settings.