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Presentation give at Beyond the Horizon (19/05/2025)
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Why do proportionally more young people from ethnic minorities go to university, but proportionally less of them get first class degrees? Paul Martin has done the research.
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Decolonising Health archive Launched by staff at Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London it seeks to create a network and provide free access to resources to understand legacies of coloniality and knowledge production. These include policies, Eurocentric attitudes and histories of health in the British empire.
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Gresham college lecture
Julia Laite is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Shanawdithit was a woman who bore witness to the death of her world in the early nineteenth century, creating the only first-hand account we have of the Beothuk people from the Island of Newfoundland. This lecture seeks to narrate the history of her fascinating and important life, alongside the history of her island, which was England’s first transatlantic colony. It will illuminate the profound connections between the hyper-extraction of the island’s resources, the hyper-exploitation of its settlers, and the violent and totalizing dispossession of Shanawdithit’s people.
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Guardian analysis exposes lack of action taken despite major reports published over the past 40 years
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Speaker: Philip Murphy (IHR)
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Published on Apr 1, 2017
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Stolen Relations seeks to recover stories of Indigenous slavery in the Americas. The website has a database as well as a map, timeline, interviews, and curricular materials.
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MOVIN’ ON UP: A Social Mobility Comic https://www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic The research of Anthony Miroborn expressed in the form of a comic to communicate easily complex ideas to a wider audience. Miro is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Miro’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of urban inequality with a particular focus on housing and social class. Information is available in English and German.
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At its first session, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) requested the United Nations System produce such a report on the state of the world’s Indigenous Peoples (SOWIP).
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Black Social Worker Oral History Project This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security. Ut has collected materials relating to 19 Black social workers who worked with and supported vulnerable children in care since the 1970s. The website includes their oral history accounts, a timeline of key policies relating to race and social care. Plus teaching resources the latter include: identity playing cards,
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On 14 Feb 2025, CILIP’s Community, Diversity & Equality Group hosted a webinar presented by Ghada Dimashk, an experienced Archivist and Metadata Librarian specializing in Middle Eastern heritage with a focus on preserving and cataloguing cultural heritage of Lebanon and Palestine. “The fight against erasure is a critical effort to preserve the identities, narratives,
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Black women gathered across industries and sectors in a space to name, unpack, and begin to heal from racial trauma in the workplace.
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Diversity and inclusivity in clinical research, including in clinical trial participation, are essential to ensure that the development of innovative medicines meets the needs of patient populations.
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This paper evaluates the performance of six open-weight LLMs (llama3-8b, llama3.1-8b, gemma2-9b, mixtral-8x7b, llama3-70b, llama3.1-70b) in recommending experts in physics across five tasks: top-k experts by field, influential scientists by discipline, epoch, seniority, and scholar counterparts. The evaluation examines consistency, factuality, and biases related to gender, ethnicity, academic popularity, and scholar similarity. Using ground-truth data from the American Physical Society and OpenAlex, we establish scholarly benchmarks by comparing model outputs to real-world academic records. Our analysis reveals inconsistencies and biases across all models. mixtral-8x7b produces the most stable outputs, while llama3.1-70b shows the highest variability. Many models exhibit duplication, and some, particularly gemma2-9b and llama3.1-8b, struggle with formatting errors. LLMs generally recommend real scientists, but accuracy drops in field-, epoch-, and seniority-specific queries, consistently favoring senior scholars. Representation biases persist, replicating gender imbalances (reflecting male predominance), under-representing Asian scientists, and over-representing White scholars. Despite some diversity in institutional and collaboration networks, models favor highly cited and productive scholars, reinforcing the rich-getricher effect while offering limited geographical representation. These findings highlight the need to improve LLMs for more reliable and equitable scholarly recommendations.
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Elli Young explores how archiving Jamaican fashion history challenges colonial narratives of the Caribbean.
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Digital treatment of African cultural heritage: Shifting landmarks and implications for copyright exceptions for archives
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While dialogue and policy on Black children in the UK education system typically focuses on Black boys, there is little research centring the unique experiences of Black girls in British schools. Of the research that exists, we often see a ‘copy and paste’ application of the educational experiences of Black girls in America, where more substantial research exists. The vital differences and visceral nuances of Black girlhood in Britain are neglected in such studies. This piece of research sits as a corrective. It builds on See Us, Hear Us: On girlhood and growing up Black in Lambeth, a pilot research study commissioned by Milk Honey Bees in 2023, which explored the complexities, nuances and experiences of girlhood whilst living in the London Borough of Lambeth. This report was written by Njilan Morris-Jarra and Ebinehita Iyere, with research undertaken by 6 peer researchers and co-ordinated by Sophie Arinde. Milk Honey Bees is a creative and expressive safe space for Black girls to flourish and put H.E.R (Healing, Empowerment and Resilience) first.
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A transformative conversation inviting Black women leaders to rethink their relationship with money, worth, and financial empowerment.
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The NDRP has partnered with the Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) to build a Disability Research Collection designed to improve policies and practices. The Collection will aim to share evidence and knowledge on a range of topics for people with disability and their families and carers, policy...
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A major research study conducted by the Sutton Trust finds that, while free school meal eligibility is linked universally to worse life chances (expressed via education and employment outcomes), the size of this impact varies depending on where you live. In a constituency level analysis this “opportunity index” allows us to see that deprivation has a lower impact in London than in the north, and generally a lower impact in core cities than semi-rural areas or provincial towns. The study examined the life courses of more than 10 million GCSE candidates in England between 2004 and 2024. The report recommends a number of measures to support attainment and progression to lessen gaps in opportunities, including increasing maintenance support for students and placing stronger regulatory expectations on universities (and employers) to address socio-economic disadvantage in recruitment
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Following the election of Donald Trump overseas and a growing backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion, major corporations – including McDonald’s, Meta and Amazon - have scaled back or abandoned their DEI commitments.
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Moving to London can be exciting, yet for a child of immigrants can be compounded with the fear of failure and undeniably challenging imposter syndrome. We all experience it to some degree, especially as students, but the good news is that, with a little bit of patience, perseverance, and confidence, you can turn your doubts
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Our ReportsBeyond the Cliff EdgeA Roadmap to Sustainability for London's Black-Led OrganisationsBlack-led organisations in London drive social change but remain underfunded and excluded from decision-making.
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