This event was a collaboration with gender equality networks from across London universities. Members from UCL, KCL, LSE and City University came together to debate the value, meaning and usefulness of the term ‘ally-ship’.
Do we need to demand more from our allies? Do we need to renegotiate the terms of our initial agreement? Who are the silent advocates? What can we do to be better activists?
Panellists looked at the idea of ally-ship through various lenses, reflecting on our own privileges and asking ourselves how we can be a better ally, advocate or activist.
Report author Dr Natasha Codiroli Mcmaster reveals insights from Advance HE’s analysis of HESA data looking at the diversity characteristics of governors in UK higher education.
new database of evidence-based gender and race equality initiatives AdvanceHE
Advance HE has launched a new good practice database, featuring examples of initiatives that advanced gender and race equality in higher education, intended to assist those working through Athena Swan and the Race Equality Charter.
Black graduates who enter higher education aged 25 or under are 2.6 percentage points less likely to report being satisfied with their career relative to White graduates in the same age group. For older graduates, the difference was even greater at approximately 9 percentage points.
The report draws upon data from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), a thematic analysis of Sociology degree programmes and related modules, and an online survey completed by 188 respondents (which equates to 9.5% of all Sociology staff employed on teaching and research contracts in 2017/2018).
this project maintained by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA seeks to collect examples of street art from around the world that have emerged in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd as part of an ongoing movement demanding social justice and equality. Each item has notes on artist and display
the OPM Archive Foundation has unveiled an online archive collecting digitised artifacts of Filipino music, mainly from the 1970s and 1980s. These include music clips, photos, image sof albums and other documents
The British Indian Association, founded in 1851, was one of the earliest political associations of Indian colonial subjects. Its holdings include records of its own history and activities as well as other issues, viz. correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports submitted to various bodies and legal documents.
The Museum is committed to researching the collection to better understand the provenance of objects where our knowledge is incomplete. The British Museum’s history and collection are intimately linked to the history of the British Empire and the era of European colonialism. The wealth generated from the expansion of Britain’s global empire and from its exploitation of resources and people, especially through the transatlantic slave trade, enabled the growth of collections such as those of the British Museum. The Museum is working with others around the world to ensure that the varied, and sometimes complicated and contested, history of collecting is acknowledged and debated.
As the Museum reopens, we are encouraging visitors to follow a new Collecting and empire trail to find out more about the complex, varied – and sometimes controversial – ways in which objects have become part of the collection. Further objects will be added in the months ahead as other galleries reopen to the public, and as collaborative work on Collecting and empire interventions progresses. The trail will be evaluated to help inform future plans to develop new permanent gallery displays.
Here are some of the objects that the trail explores.
Gail Lewis, psychotherapist and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, joins us for a conversation on Britain’s racial formation; speaking across the generational lines; and how music captures life
Before Covid-19, around 4 per cent of households in the UK were identified as having ‘problem debt’ (ONS 2019a); that is, debt which represents a high proportion of disposable income, includes …
GuildHE is launching a new Anti-Racism Programme for members that supports a more conscious and impactful approach to improving equality in UK HE, and provides resources, discussion groups and activity sharing across our diverse institutions. Stage one of the programme will run this year, supporting members to develop their own anti-racism strategy, provide educational opportunities on what barriers need to be overcome, and inspire all staff and students to be anti-racism champions. All of our practitioner networks will be given Allyship training and be encouraged to evaluate and develop a truly inclusive approach to their work. We will also support our institutional change champions through Action Learning Sets and bespoke support.
Great site from the Digital Public Library of America, free access to thousands of primary source documents including letters, manuscripts and photos, political posters from the 19th century until the liberation movement of the 1960s . Includes school segregation and black Panther collections
includes the Ida B. Wells Barnett Papers from the University of Chicago, Other features of the site are a timeline of events and biographies of key campaigners.
As students begin to return to universities around the world, four British-Somali students talk about navigating one of Britain’s most traditional institutions: Cambridge University.
ust launched by Cambridge University press a free collection of journal articles and book chapters which engage critically with the legacy of empire, the slave trade and issues of race and power in society. It will be updated quarterly
Working as a Black professional within international development, Susan Sebatindira felt frustrated by the level of underrepresentation of Black people and People of Colour across the sector. She f…
This Policy Brief looks at successive attempts to transform the African university, in initiatives that have alternately been termed part of a larger Africanization or decolonization project. We chart attempts at intellectual decolonization launched by African-born scholars such as Ali Mazrui and Sa
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