What if our Textbooks were Black?, 16:00 16/12/2019, BBC Radio 4, 30 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/14FBA10B?bcast=130832923 (Accessed 20 Dec 2019)
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Craig Poku was the only black PhD student in his department. He reflects on how black British doctoral students can navigate the challenges they face 
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In October 2018, we published a report on Race, Ethnicity and Equality in UK History. This RHS report built on existing work by groups such as the Runnymede Trust, the Young Historians Project and Museum Detox, and surveyed the state of the discipline for BME staff and students in particular. It found that Undergraduate level History was overwhelmingly white in terms of students, that the numbers were even lower when it came to Postgraduate level History and that ‘History academic staff are less diverse than H&PS student cohorts, with 93.7% of History staff drawn from White backgrounds, and only 0.5% Black, 2.2% Asian and 1.6% Mixed’.
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Asking BAME students to spend significant amounts of time helping universities decolonise the curriculum is far from the ideal solution, says Daniel Akinbosede inspiring Times Higher article.
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A series celebrating Black cultural figures who should be more central to history. Naomi Beckwith grew up on Chicago’s South Side. Unusually, her school prioritised the teaching of Black history - when she opened a textbook, she saw people who looked like her. But when she left that school, most black faces from the past disappeared. Today, Naomi’s an international curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Her exhibitions rebalance the story of art and culture - focusing on African American cultural figures who could and should be better known. But she argues that we need to go much further - we must reconsider our models of education. If we change our exhibitions without changing our textbooks, then nothing changes at all. In this series, Naomi invites artists to imagine a new cultural textbook that reinstates some of those Black cultural figures who’ve been sidelined. In episode 1, the writer and publisher Dr Haki Madhubuti nominates What if our Textbooks were Black?, 16:00 09/12/2019, BBC Radio 4, 30 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/14EFDB3A?bcast=130788399 (Accessed 20 Dec 2019
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Decolonising Library collections and practices: from understanding to impact papers on what libraries are doing.
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There is a growing impetus, from university students and administrations, to decolonise the curriculum and develop diverse reading lists. Schucan Bird, K. & Pitman, L. High Educ (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00446-9
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Asian international and black students reported greater odds of suicide attempt. •Sexual minority students reported greater odds of across all three suicide outcomes.
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