Race and diversity

This chart compares the share of the total population and the share of Covid-19 deaths in England, by ethnicity.

People in deprived areas have less access to garden and other green spaces, analysis shows

The report of the Windrush lessons learned independent review by Wendy Williams. - does it equal institutional racism. Take a look

The Carnegie UK Trust, Operation Black Vote and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at University College London publish a report on race inequality in the workforce relating to precarious work and its impact on mental health

also report on the history.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/provost/sites/provost/files/archival_research_final_report_-_mk.pdf

Pressure to support diversity efforts and BAME students drives ethnic minority women to take on unrewarded duties to the detriment of their career progression and mental health, academics say

Participants were asked to choose between white and ethnic minority candidates. interesting conversation blog post discussing an academic article.

Group library of references to recent articles 

Higher levels of dissatisfaction and anxiety reported in BAME students

Sir John Parker, EY and BEIS launch new Parker Review report, which reveals over a third of FTSE 100 boards surveyed still lack ethnic representation

On Wednesday March 25th, Intersectionality Matters teamed up with the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) to premiere a new virtual conversation series entitled “Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare”. On this episode, you’ll hear a condensed version of that conversation, which featured six incredible speakers and drew an audience of 1,300 people over Zoom.

Universities must do everything they can to set clear cultural expectations, and take action to eradicate hate, writes Professor David Richardson.

study from USA

Only 140 academic staff at professorial level identified as black, equating to 0.7% out of a total of more than 21,000 professors. Nearly 18,000 or 85% identified as white.

The panel considers what decolonization means and how it can – or cannot – be practically applied in the fields of history, politics and international relations.

Companies with more than 250 employees should voluntarily publish their ethnicity pay gap data, in the same format as they already do for gender.

Half of black and minority ethnic respondents faced racism from fellow MPs

Archives For Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) is a loose association of archivists, librarians, and allied professionals in the area responding to the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement. The group was inspired by Jarrett Drake, formerly Digital Archivist at Princeton University, and his work to end archives' erasure of Black lives. they have just 

published their Anti-Racist Description Resources document at the end of last year, available here https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/ardr_final.pdf

Africa's contribution to academic knowledge production on Africa itself has been suppressed by publishing infrastructures. It's time to publish in Kiswahili.