How is your institution enabling Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students to thrive? Is your institution effectively tackling racism?
Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, the higher education sector has started making bold commitments to dismantling structural racism. However, big questions remain about how higher education can combat institutional racism and achieve real change.
This book disrupts the higher education sector through ambitious actions and collective, participatory and evidence-informed responses to racism. It offers a roadmap for senior leaders, staff and students to build strategies, programmes and interventions that effectively tackle racism.
Arising from current staff and recent student experiences, this book supports institutions driving equality, diversity, inclusion and intersectional programmes in higher education.
Part 1: Introduction 1. Positioning anti-racism in higher education - Arun Verma Part 2: Staff experiences of racism 2. Academic staff experiences - Min Duchenski, Tamjid Mujtaba and Jalpa Ruparelia 3. Professional and support services staff - Claire Lee Part 3: Student experiences of racism 4. Undergraduate student experiences - Josephine Gabi and Sonia Gomes 5. Postgraduate student experiences - Arun Verma 6. Student social experiences - Zoe Nutakor Part 4: Research systems enabling racism 7. Research funding and contracts - Arun Verma 8. Research excellence assessments - Arun Verma 9. Research collaborations and publishing - Arun Verma Part 5: Teaching systems enabling racism 10. Teaching and scholarship funding, contracts and collaboration - Arun Verma 11. Teaching excellence assessments - Arun Verma Part 6: Pedagogies that enable racism 12. Pedagogies, professionalism and curricula enabling racism - Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou 13. Curriculum design - Parise Carmichael-Murphy and Eileen Ggbagbo 14. University identity - Briana Coles and Arun Verma 15. Educational professionalism - Deya Mukherjee Part 7: Governance, strategy and operational systems 16. Governance and leadership - Jitesh S. B. Gajjar, Manish Maisuria and Anonymous 17. Operations and processes - Manvir Kaur Grewal 18. Strategy, planning and accountability - Shaminder Takhar, Rashid Aziz, Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou and Pamela Thomas Part 8: Conclusion 19. In solidarity - Arun Verma 20. Reflections on anti-racism in higher education - Arun Verma
Arun Verma is a leader in integrating intersectionality, race equality action in design, development and action throughout the higher education, third and public sectors both nationally and globally.
Reviews for Anti-Racism in Higher Education: An Action Guide for Change
Presents complex, deep-rooted problems but surprisingly the solutions can be quite simple! This book, while drawing attention to the immense challenge of anti-racism, is full of hope that a more equitable and fairer system is possible. Gurnam Singh, Coventry University This edited collection draws together the voices of racially minoritised activists, scholars, students and professional staff to ultimately pose a series of important, challenging questions to a sector still coming to grips with the true extent of racial inequity and its impact on our success. Nicola Rollock, King's College London
