Systemic Racism

Clinicians perceived racism as escalating after Brexit due to normalised and legitimised racist attitudes. Racism is presented as both a social harm and a physical health risk through physiological stress pathways. Clinicians identified systemic racism, microaggressions, and oppressive structures as harms to racially and ethnically minoritised students' mental health and academic attainment. Generic diversity commitments are presented as insufficient without concrete race equity in service design, training, and reflective practice.