Race and diversity

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.

Speaker(s):Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Dr Wangui wa Goro, Dr Romina Istratii,
Published on16 January 2020
A crucial conversation with leading thinkers on current attempts to decolonise Eurocentric knowledge systems in Africa, and their role in challenging the enduring effects of colonialism in African and global society.

Includes Kingston university. UCL, 

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874

A new great collection from the library of congress which is free online for all.

The former slave and abolitionist edited a number of newspapers 565 issues of three weekly newspaper titles can be accessed they are: Frederick Douglass' Paper., North Star and New National Era.

All contain features on black civil rights, abolition of slavery,  race relations in the USA and black culture and self-improvement.. There are galleries of selected images and essays and teacher’s resources which set the materials in context. They help students to understand also r the historical context of the language relating to race used in the content which would now be considered outdated and on occasions unacceptable.

First release of staff data for 2018/19 covering demographic and contract characteristics of staff at UK higher education providers.

from HESA.

Diversity Initiatives to Recruit and Retain Academic Librarians: A Systematic Review   . this focuses upon the USA  finding more effort focussed on early career librarians than other groups.

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

Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer:

open access book from UCL press

Event held at Goldsmiths University, January 24th 2020. twitter feeds. see snapshots of presenters and their projects

CRL and East View Information Services have released Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Newspapers, these comprise 15 open access newspapers from mid 19th century onwards

Content in MENA Newspapers is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French, featuring titles such as Al-Iqbal (Lebanon), Al Akhaa al Watani (Iraq), Tangier Gazette (Morocco), and La Vérité (Algeria).Offers insight into world events such as the fall of the Ottoman Empire