Professor Zenobia Nadirshaw is the Head of Psychology at Kensington & Chelsea PCT and is Professor at Thames Valley University, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences. She is a senior qualified practitioner with thirty years experience working in the National Health Service in learning disabilities, influencing service planning, service provision and service delivery issues at local, regional and national level.

Zenobia has impacted the professional education of Clinical Psychology and Nursing in Britain in terms of incorporating ‘race’ and culture issues into professional educational curriculum and developing core competencies, knowledge and skills in training, selection and recruitment of multi professional groups. With a speciality in learning disabilities, Zenobia is the national assessor for the Division of Clinical Psychology / Department of Health for Consultant Clinical Psychology posts.

She has been involved in different Committee of the British Psychological Society as well as the Division of Clinical Psychology and is Trustees of several Charity Organisations including The Mental Health Foundation. She is a Governor of the London Metropolitan University and is also a Chief Examiner at Leicester University, Department of Postgraduate Clinical Psychology Studies.

Prof Zenobia Nadirshaw has been invited to Department of Health Committees chaired by the Health Ministers to advise them on Ethnicity and Mental Health as well as Learning Disability Issues and Mental Health issues. Zenobia is an experienced public speaker researched and published widely drawing attention to 'race', difference and diversity and its effects in relation to social inequality and exclusion as it applies to Women`s issues, people with Learning Disabilities and people with mental health problems.

Zenobia Nadirshaw has published widely in the field of `Rae` and Culture and her name is now synonymous with the field, She won the Equality of Opportunity Award from the B ritish Psychologyical Society and a seminal text that she co edited was awarded the aaccolade of The British Medical Association Book of the Year Award in 2001. She sits on several Editorial Boards of Professional Journals and acts as a Reviewer for Publishing Companies.

She has influenced the profession of Clinical Psychology in terms of its training of clinical psychologists and the way in which psychological services are delivered to black and minority ethnic communities living in Britain.