Date: 14 Nov 2025
Structural Inequalities in The Clinical Neurosciences
Venue: Tooting Campus, Cranmer Terrace
London, SW17 0RE and Online
Website: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
Event Notes:
The one-day course will take the form of a series of talks by expert speakers from the UK and internationally, culminating in a panel and audience discussion at the end of the day. Speakers will address the root causes of inequality in neuroscience research and clinical care, but also point to solutions for overcoming them.
Course overview
Evidence of systemic injustice in health outcomes has been mounting for decades. Over 16 million people live with a neurological condition in England alone. Despite this, inequalities in research and clinical outcomes in neurology have received relatively little attention.
In this unique event, we will explore and challenge some of the structural factors that underpin disparities in healthcare and healthcare research in neurological and related disorders. These include race, gender, sexuality, global disparities in wealth, and differential vulnerability to climate catastrophe.
This is one of several neurology professional development courses offered at City St George’s Tooting campus.
Who is it for?
Clinical staff, including nurses, allied health professionals and academics with an interest in this area.
Timetable
This course can be attended face-to-face or online.
Benefits
This course has been developed by the City St George’s Clinical Neuroscience Practice MSc/PgCert team. Our MSc and PgCert programmes provide a solid foundation in the principles, practice, lived experience and service delivery of clinical neurosciences.
They are strongly values-oriented, emphasising the equal contribution of the different health professions to clinical care, the inclusion of lived experience in learning and caring and structural factors such as patriarchy and coloniality that bias neuroscience research and care.
Tutors
Dr Jeremy Isaacs
Honorary Reader in Neurology, City St George’s, University of London / Co-Director MSc Clinical Neuroscience Practice / Director, Neurosciences Clinical Academic Group
Jeremy Isaacs is a consultant neurologist at St George’s and Kingston Hospitals and Honorary Reader in Neurology at City St George’s, University of London.
He has a specialist interest in cognitive neurology and dementia and is National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health at NHS England. He is co-director of the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience Practice at City St George’s. He has research interests in Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and functional cognitive disorder.
Dr Ania Crawshaw
Clinical Teaching Fellow / Neurology lecturer on the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience Practice
Dr Crawshaw is a neurologist at St George’s hospital, with a special interest in Medical Education and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).
She works both clinically, as a Neurology trainee (ST7) and academically as the Clinical Teaching Fellow on the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience Practice.
