Members of the Race, Culture and Equality Working Group are working as mentors in various schemes and capacities. These include the B-MEntor scheme, and the Fi-Wi Road intership for Black and mixed-Black heritage geography students. For questions about mentoring, please contact Professor Divya Tolia-Kelly (D.Tolia-Kelly@sussex.ac.uk). She currently leads the the BAME & Women’s Coaching and Mentoring Network at the University of Sussex.
Fi Wi Road Internship
Initiated in 2021, the Fi Wi Road Internship began as a collaborative project to provide a collective of Black-heritage Geography and Geoscience undergraduate students across the UK with a space to develop a new idea of what Geography could look like. Initially funded through Antipode’s ‘Right to the Discipline’ grant, the project has grown in the years since into an independent annual Summer internship that continues to provide our interns with one-to-one mentoring, skills workshops, and hands-on research experience, culminating in our annual Fi Wi Road Fair.
The internship continues to support Black students across the UK in building networks, voice and experience, encouraging them to stay within a discipline in which Black geographers are consistently under-represented, and often brutally marginalised and squeezed out.
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