All Outputs (12)

University s/cyborgs widening undergraduate access (2024)
Journal Article

This study sought to examine questions of race in higher education widening access policy and practice in England. I was keen on seeking perceptions and stories of those who do work in this area, raising awareness of higher education opportunities to... Read More about University s/cyborgs widening undergraduate access.

Decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education: the journey ahead (2024)
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This Point of Departure ponders the question of decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education. In addressing this question, we, as scholars of color who work in the academy in the US and the UK, have leaned on the work of Shahjahan, Estera,... Read More about Decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education: the journey ahead.

Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education: Racism in education in Britain: addressing structural oppression and the dominance of racism, by Gill Crozier, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023. 284pp, Price £34.15, ISBN 978-3-031-18930-2 The culture trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for black youth, by Derron Wallace, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023. 290 pp, Price £19.00 ISBN 9780197531471 (2023)
Journal Article

Reframing race and widening access into higher education (2022)
Journal Article

This paper draws attention to empirical work on widening access to understand the silence on race matters in English higher education. This work repurposes a critical race theoretical framework that offers a glimpse of how the issue of unequal acces... Read More about Reframing race and widening access into higher education.

Colour-evasiveness and higher education: Synthesis of literature on race and widening access (2022)
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Widening access policy and initiatives in English higher education (HE) have largely been colour evasive rather than colour-focused. The paper draws attention to the literature - empirical work on widening access specifically - to understand the sil... Read More about Colour-evasiveness and higher education: Synthesis of literature on race and widening access.

Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy (2021)
Journal Article

University staff from African, Asian and other Minoritised Groups (AAMG) are not resigned to the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the corridors, classrooms, and lecture theatres of the academy. This article articulates a self-study, where we emplo... Read More about Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy.

No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces (2021)
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This study explores the lived experiences on campus of five female undergraduate students of colour. Drawing on a critical race theory perspective and inspired by CRiT walking, walking interviews were conducted to give voice to the students’ experien... Read More about No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces.

The university went to ‘decolonise’ and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in ‘decolonial’ times (2020)
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UK Higher Education is characterised by structural and institutional forms of whiteness. As scholars and activists are increasingly speaking out to testify, whiteness has wide-ranging implications that affect curricula, pedagogy, knowledge production... Read More about The university went to ‘decolonise’ and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in ‘decolonial’ times.

How international students of colour become Black: a story of whiteness in English higher education (2019)
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This article highlights how international students of colour are racialised in English higher education. Key performance indicators of racial inequality in the sector like achievement outcomes currently discount experiences of international students... Read More about How international students of colour become Black: a story of whiteness in English higher education.

NCOP: end of phase one report for the national formative and impact evaluations (2019)
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This report presents the findings from the national formative and impact evaluations of phase one of the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP), which ended in July 2019.

Antiblackness In English higher education (2018)
Journal Article

This article highlights antiblackness pervading English higher education. This antiblackness is attributed to a majoritarian view, which not only upholds the view that education is value-neutral, meritocratic, colour-blind, but also has a cultural di... Read More about Antiblackness In English higher education.

Evaluation of the National Networks for Collaborative Outreach (NNCOs) (2017)
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