The BPS has published an oral history with Waveney Bushell, often regarded as the first Black female educational psychologist, charting her career and instrumental role in exposing racism in the British education system.
The oral history, published to mark National Children’s Day, explores Waveney’s early career and studies and how she worked with colleagues to highlight the racism and inequality in the British education system, including the use of IQ tests that led to many Black children being placed in schools for the ‘educationally subnormal’.
