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RACE pre-conference event 2021
The RACE pre-conference event will be on Tuesday 31st August 10.30-3.00. The session will focus on early career researchers (ECRs) and pre-career researchers (PCRs – undergraduates and PGTs). Morning session (10.30-12.30) The morning session will be led by Professor Parvati Raghuram (Open University), and is an informal problem-discussion session for black and brown UG/PG/ECRs. If you have […]
Online event: Towards guidelines for good practice in supervising Black Geography PhD students
Date and time: Wednesday, 30th June, 11-12am UK timeVenue: Online – for a FREE link to enter, please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-guidelines-for-good-practice-in-supervising-black-geography-phd-stu-tickets-160016470571 About this eventThis roundtable event will discuss good practice in the supervision of Black Geography PhD students in the UK Chair: Dr Pat Noxolo (University of Birmingham)Roundtable Participants: Victoria Okoye (University of Sheffield, author of a […]
Online Event: “Stolen Works, Stolen Lives: Racial Erasure, Exclusion and Dispossession in Academic Publishing”
This upcoming event features members of RACE. The website can be found here. *** Stolen Works, Stolen Lives: Racial Erasure, Exclusion and Dispossession in Academic Publishing 1-2pm, Thursday 10 September 2020 Given the importance of publishing to the career trajectories and lives of academic researchers, comparatively little attention has been paid to racism in the […]
Dr Patricia Noxolo on (Post)COVID-19 Online Learning Opportunities & Dangers for Black Students & Staff
We have added a video to your teaching resources page. Dr Pat Noxolo’s talk on on (Post)COVID-19 Online Learning Opportunities & Dangers for Black Students & Staff was presented as part of the Decolonising the Curriculum symposium, led by University of Birmingham students (see image below). You can watch other contributions here. In her talk, […]
Knowledge Is Power—An Open Letter To UKRI
This post has forwarded from the Higher Education Race Action Group (HERAG). The issue of funding on Black issues being exclusively awarded to White researchers keeps recurring, and has also happened in Geography. It has been discussed at RACE meetings multiple times. This open letter is a helpful step towards holding research councils to account. […]
Interview with Dr James Esson from RACE: The Taylor and Francis award, football related trafficking and race in geography
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) · The Taylor and Francis award, football related trafficking and race in geography | Dr James Esson Dr James Esson (Loughborough University) was interviewed for the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers ‘Geography now’ podcast. This year, he received the RGS-IBG Taylor & Francis Award “for sustained contributions to teaching […]
“It’s my purpose”: An interview with RACE 2019/20 dissertation prize winner Monisha Jackson
This summer, RACE cannot welcome the 2019/20 dissertation prize winner to the RGS-IBG conference in person. However, you can find out more about Monisha Jackson (University of Leeds graduate, now PhD student at GSU Atlanta), her research and her experiences as a Geography student in this interview. Monisha’s dissertation is entitled “I’m Not your SISTA”: […]
2019/20 Dissertation Prize Winner
The winner for the 2019/20 Dissertation Prize is Monisha Jackson (University of Leeds). She is currently in Atlanta doing a PhD at GSU. The dissertation is entitled “I’m Not your SISTA”: Queer Black Women’s Experiences in LGBTQ+ Night-time Spaces. It will be added to the RACE dissertation prize winner archive, which can be found here. […]
RACE group statement on transformative racial justice
The RACE Working Group is in solidarity with all those resisting the violent upholding of white supremacy around the world. We mourn the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all those killed by anti-Black violence – state-sanctioned and extrajudicial – all over the world. We also mourn the death of […]
RACE Black Archives in the UK Report 2019
Activist Len Garrison (second from right) and other campaigners calling for a BCA. Image source: The Voice In advance of our workshop at the Black Cultural Archives, here is our Black Archives in the UK Report: Opportunities, Challenges and Moving Forward. The report has been compiled by Natalie Hyacinth and was facilitated by Dr Pat […]
Race, Culture and Equality Working Group 