Marcia Worrell (1966-2020).

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Memorializes Marcia Worrell (1966-2020). Marcia read psychology and sociology from 1985 at the University of Reading. Her PhD, awarded in 2001 on child abuse and neglect at the Open University, led to her advocacy on behalf of survivors. During her PhD research she was employed as a researcher and a member of course teams designing innovative courses on child welfare and protection. Her first permanent lectureship, in 1992, was at the University of Bedfordshire where she was part of the team that created the university's first British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited qualification. As one of a handful of Black women academic psychologists, she was deeply committed to working for gendered and racialized equality in the discipline. Throughout her career she was active in the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section of the BPS, chairing the section in its celebratory 30th year (2017) and serving on the editorial board of the international journal Feminism & Psychology. Her political activism extended to South Africa, Turkey, and Cambodia, where she helped set up the country's first psychology master's program. In 2004, Marcia moved to the University of Roehampton, where she was the program convenor for psychology. A gifted, energetic, and inspirational teacher as well as researcher, she was awarded a joint Roehampton Teaching Fellowship (2010-2013) in recognition of her work on learning and teaching in higher education. An indication of Marcia's outstanding achievements is that her appointment to professor at the University of West London in 2014 made her one of only 17 Black women professors in the United Kingdom at the time. There, she helped to implement the new policing education and qualification framework in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and the London Policing College. She was one of the first members of the London Policing Research Network established in 2018. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).