Errol Anthony Francis (born in Oracabessa, Jamaica, 1956)[1] is an artist, former mental health campaigner, and current charity executive in the United Kingdom.
[citation needed] He has co-authored of a number of inquiry reports and book chapters, including Black People, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System with Deryck Browne[3] and Epidemiology, ethnicity and schizophrenia with S. P.
[5][6] Francis was formerly Joint Programme Lead at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health[7] and was co-author of Breaking the Circles of Fear, a research report into the relationship of the African-Caribbean community with the psychiatric services.
This critical questioning of empire and difference and its meaning for contemporary Britain have repeatedly led him to Greenwich, a place he has identified as historically crucial and representative for the British national identity, which he explored in his (2009) Space time and Englishness.
In addition, he was awarded his PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, where his research focused on postcolonial artistic responses to museums.