Race and diversity

As universities prepare to respond to the financial losses of Covid-19, Winston Morgan warns of a potentially devastating impact on BAME staff.

If reporting doesn’t improve, the creativity and agency of swaths of humanity will be lost to history. Great article from the Nation.

The BAME degree awarding gap is likely to be an even bigger issue now. Gurnam Singh reflects on what universities should do next.

This lexicon was compiled and written in a joint collaboration between :

 Dr. Mariam Aboelez, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London

 Mr. Mourad Diouri, Teaching Fellow & Course Organiser (PG Arabic) at IMES (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies), U. of Edinburgh

COVID-19 sparks online Islamophobia as fake news and racist memes are shared online, new research commissioned by the Independent Members of the cross government working group on Anti-Muslim Hatred, finds. 

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

Black and minority ethnicity key workers on the Covid-19 frontline speak to EachOther as fears of rising racial inequality grow.

Shocking levels of economic and racial inequality in Britain are revealed in The Colour of Money, a Runnymede report released April 2020.

For example, Black African and Bangladeshi households have 10 times less wealth than White British people.

One year on from the Closing the Gap report, Amatey Doku reflects on progress - and the mountain yet to be climbed.

 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal justice, housing and representation in the arts and media

This project is compiling a submission of evidence on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19, and the UK government response, on ethnic minorities in the UK. 

In this project, GHPU faculty are working with colleagues from the School of Social and Political Science at University of Edinburgh, and the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex / Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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.