Notes on Contributors

Ian M. Adams, MBA, MCIM, has served as a local authority Councillor at Westminster City Council since 2002 and today is Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing, alongside his other role as LGBT Lead Member. He has been employed as a Communications and Marketing Director of national government agencies and the NHS, following an earlier career with the BBC. He is Director of Membership and Stakeholder Engagement at NHS Resolution which manages compensation claims made against the health service in England. He is also a charity trustee and a recognised LGBT role model; in 2018 he was included among a list of LGBT role models in the public sector published by The Financial Times. He is a Leadership Fellow at St George's House, Windsor, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Antoine Gordon graduated from King's College London with an honours degree in English literature before working in script development for television drama series and as an independent film producer. His debut feature film, For Grace, was nominated for Best UK Feature at Raindance Festival 2016. He is currently in his second year of the MA Psychotherapy & Counselling at Regent's University London and works as a trainee therapist at London Therapy Foundation. His research areas of interest include artistic creativity, institutionalised masculinity, and healing trauma through the nervous system.

Dr Feryad Hussain, DClinPsych, has worked as a clinical psychologist for almost twenty years. She has worked in a range of services within the NHS as well as setting up a number of psychology services abroad and has also worked with teams developing international online therapy services. She has a particular interest in health psychology, cross cultural psychology/therapy models and Islamically-centred therapy. Dr Hussain has also worked as an academic supervisor and lecturer in these areas and has published numerous papers/books in these disciplines. Most recently, she worked for North E