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Ava Sadie Martin is based at University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. She is an MA Graduate psychotherapist in Trauma Informed Practice. Ethnically British-Asian/Indian fostered by a White British family, in a White British neighbourhood. Raised in an environment that was inherently prejudicial and at times overtly racist. A visitor to her Indian relatives, community, and culture, Ava has a particular inside experience of the breakdown of racial, cultural, and religious identities. During Ava’s research she found papers polarising Whiteness against overtly racialised and traumatised Black narratives (Aanerud, 2007; Cole, 2020; Jungkunz, 2011; Nelson, Hynes, Sharpe, Paradies, and Dunn, 2018; Wetherell, 2008; Whitehead, 2021). By contrast narratives of cultural Whiteness outside of politicised and supremist contexts, were absent. Ava asserts that whiteness needs to be depoliticised, claimed, and separated from privilege, colonialism, and patriarchy as a cultural signifier intrinsic to the formation of healthy White identities.

Gary Winship is a Professor of Trauma, Mental Health and Education at School of Education, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. He is a professor of trauma education and mental health at the University of Nottingham. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He held consultant psychotherapy positions in the NHS and prison sector. He has been concerned with the challenge of suicide and suicide prevention for more than 40 years in practice. He has led three inquiries into patient suicide generating new guidance for clinical practice for nurses and allied disciplines and has given evidence in 2 coroners courts. After a spike in local suicides among children and young people in Nottingham he was funded by the Institute of Mental Health to lead a research team which included the Notts coroner Nigel Chapman, and the chair of the child death overview panel Dilip Nathan.