Race and ethnicity
Marj Mayo highlights how Black history needs to be celebrated all the time and is not simply an add-on, to be taken off the shelf and noted once a year.…Read more
A new policy briefing - Lifting Barriers to Black Academia - for creating policy, action and legislation to establish meaningful and sustainable efforts in HE to advance reparative justice for aspiring and existing Black academics.…Read more
Mareile Kaufmann, author of 'Making Information Matter', examines the rise of ancestry research and how it fosters new cultures of genomic data collection, with businesses capitalising on its commercialisation.…Read more
A compelling discussion on the multifaceted challenges faced by Black PhD students in academia. Guests William Ackah and Madina Wane, co-editors of 'The Black PhD Experience', offer a nuanced exploration of the lived experiences of Black scholars.…Read more
In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Rodney D. Coates, author of 'Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth', about what critical race theory is and why it has found itself in the crosshairs of white nationalists.…Read more
Karen Lee Ashcraft, author of 'Wronged and Dangerous', argues that for all their seismic energy, even Swifties can’t compete with the momentum made by a power plant like the manosphere and suggests that the time has come to learn its name and address it head-on.…Read more
Simon Winlow, Steve Hall and James Treadwell, authors of 'The Rise of the Right', discuss the recent UK riots and reflect on the demanding political task of building a genuinely inclusive society and economy.…Read more
Sally Vivyan looks at a tiny charity working with refugees and asylum seekers, and how its ethos could teach us all some big lessons about how to navigate our societal challenges.…Read more
Jen Shang and Adrian Sargeant, authors of 'Meaningful Philanthropy', present a new perspective on philanthropy. Considering who people are when they give is more valuable than asking why they give if we want to consider how to encourage philanthropy. …Read more
Two Convivial Thinkers ask whether higher ed can really ‘decolonise development’ when only some voices are heard and others are silenced. We must still aim to dismantle the logics of neoliberal academia, however daunting. …Read more