Kim Parker

Kim has worked in mental health services in Sheffield for over thirty years, and is the Senior Nurse for Quality at the Trust. Early in Kim’s career she encountered a female service user who staff found it difficult to support due to both language and cultural barriers, and she dates her interest in and passion for working to address stigma and discrimination from this early encounter. Kim has been heavily involved in Black and Ethnic Minorities work as well as with HIV/Aids work, as well as developing mental health links in Uganda. She tackles the stigma of mental health within the context of other stigmatising issues such as skin colour, physical illness and sexual orientation