Membership:
Chair:
Elinor Kelly
Committee Members:
Maariyah Adam, Research and Training Consultant
Susan Anderson, Mental Health Act Facilitator, NHS Fife
Kathleen Caskie, Regional Operational Manager, Victim Support Scotland
Tim Hopkins, Equality Network
Bill Gray, Fife Disability
Mukami McCrum, Director of Central Scotland Racial Equality Council
Helena Scott, Equalities Policy Officer, Age Concern Scotland
Marsha Scott, Principal Officer, Health Policy & Planning, West Lothian Council
Joe O'Donnell, Chief Inspector, Independent Inspectorate
Sue Moody, Deputy Head, Policy Division
EAG MEMBERS' BIOGRAPHIES
Chair: Elinor Kelly, Honorary Research Fellow in Race and Ethnic Issues at the University of Glasgow
Elinor is the author of many articles and research reports, in particular on racism and sectarianism in the criminal justice system of Scotland. For 12 years she led training seminars - Policing a Multi Racial Society - for Strathclyde Police. Most recently, she served as a member of the advisory group for the COPFS Inspectorate Race Thematic Inspection, as executive member of the Scottish Human Rights Centre and member of the Scottish Advisory Board of the Immigration Advisory Service. She has also acted as Minutes Secretary for Maryhill Refugee Integration Network and Chair of Gibson-Otago-Westbank Neighbourhood Action.
Maariyah Masud Adam, BA, MA, MSc, Amira Training & Consultancy
Maariyah works as a Research and Training Consultant across Scotland. Her most recent projects include developing lessons for schools on Islamophobia; research on Migrant Workers in the Grampian; contributions in the Race Equality Toolkit in Learning and Teaching for Universities Scotland and in an online Anti-Sectarian Toolkit; and research into the effects of the July 7
th attacks on Muslim Women in Scotland. She is project manager for Securing Care for Ethnic Elders in Scotland for the Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity. Maariyah delivers training on faith and culture issues for public and private sector organisations as an individual also through the Muslim Information Service Scotland. She served in the Scottish Interfaith Council Youth Committee, and was a founding member of a faith-based youth group in Mauritius.
Susan Anderson, Mental Health Facilitator NHS Fife
Susan Anderson joined the NHS in 1978 as a psychiatric nurse where she worked in acute and rehabilitative psychiatry. She is currently the Mental Health Act Facilitator for NHS Fife and her role includes facilitating and coordinating the implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, in partnership with clinical and managerial colleagues, using knowledge and expertise on the legislation, and acting as a specialist resource for professional colleagues. In addition, she provides advice, training and support in all areas of legislation affecting mental health and learning disability services.
Kathleen Caskie, Operations Manager for Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire, Victim Support Scotland
Kathleen manages the community-based victim support services in the region, and the Witness Service in the High and Sheriff courts, including a specialist project for asylum-seekers and refugees in the North of Glasgow, and one for asylum-seeking and ethnic minority women in south Glasgow. She represents Victim Support in the area Multi Agency Racist Incident Monitoring steering group, and in the group advising ASSIST, the project supporting victims of cases in Glasgow's specialist domestic abuse court.
Bill Gray, Disability Equality Trainer
Bill is the Chair of the Thistle Foundation, a Trustee of Scottish Human Services and Chair of Dunfermline Advocacy Initiative. He is also a Committee member of Ownership Options in Scotland and Fife Independent Equality Network. He has also been a Reader for Dunfermline Talking Newspaper for 21 years. Bill is a Disability Qualified Tribunal Member for the Appeals Service. Bill was instrumental in developing the Disability Sessions for the COPFS Diversity Awareness Programme, and has presented the majority of these sessions from its commencement in 2003.
Tim Hopkins, legislation and policy worker of the Equality Network
Tim Hopkins is the legislation and policy worker of the Equality Network, which is a national network in Scotland working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. The Equality Network currently comprises 350 LGBT and other groups, and 800 individuals, across Scotland. It works, alongside organisations operating in other equality areas, for equitable laws, policies and services from the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Executive and national policy makers in Scotland. Tim was also the Scotland representative on the Steering Group for the new GB Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
Mukami McCrum, Chief Executive of Central Scotland Racial Equality Council
Mukami is a Commissioner on Justice and Peace Commission of the World Council of Churches. She promotes development in Africa and supports the work of Comic Relief Africa Grants Committee. She is also a trustee on several boards including Responding to Conflict Trust, and
Akina Mama wa Africa, an international NGO for African women in the UK, Europe and Africa. She has served on government advisory forums including the Home Office Race Relations Forum, the Racial Equality Advisory Forum of the Scottish Executive and the National Lottery Charities Board.
Joseph T O'Donnell, Chief Inspector of the Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland
Joe has spent 29 years in the Procurator Fiscal Service including terms as Procurator Fiscal in Stonehaven and Ayr, a period in the Crown Office Secretariat and the Scottish Law Commission. Most recently he served as Senior Assistant Procurator Fiscal at Glasgow until he was appointed the first Chief Inspector of the Inspectorate of Prosecution in Glasgow in August 2004 with the task of inspecting the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. This involves both office inspections and thematic reports all of which are submitted directly to the Lord Advocate and published.
Sue Moody, Director of Victim Information and Advice, Head of Crown Office Victims and Diversity Policy and Development Division
Sue has been involved in research, teaching and practical innovation in relation to crime victims and witnesses since 1985. She was the first Director of Victim Support in Scotland where her responsibilities included the provision of services to BME communities. While teaching criminology and law at Dundee University (between 1991-2002) Sue undertook research on the impact on victims of the racially aggravated offence provisions introduced by the Crime and Disorder Act. She was seconded to COPFS in March 2002 to develop a new service for victims and witnesses. Victim Information and Advice (VIA) has now been rolled out across Scotland and the VIA service is offered to a wide range of victims and vulnerable witnesses, including victims of racially and religiously aggravated crime and crimes targeted at other groups.