Is Diversity Academic in UK Universities?
Panellists
Kehinde Andrews Dr Kehinde Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. His research interests are radical approaches to overcoming racial inequality and his first book Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement. Kehinde is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association. |
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Gurminder Bhambra She is author of Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (Palgrave, 2007) which won the 2008 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book in sociology. She has co-edited three collections, Silencing Human Rights (Palgrave, 2009); 1968 in Retrospect (Palgrave, 2009); and African Athena (OUP, 2011). She also set up the Global Social Theory website to support students and academics interested in social theory in global perspective. She tweets in a personal capacity @gkbhambra |
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Lisa Palmer Dr Lisa Palmer is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Her research interest include Black Studies in Britain, the cultural politics of Lover's Rock music, racism and decolonial studies. |
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Robbie Shilliam Dr Robbie Shilliam is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is author of The Black Pacific: Anti-colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015) and co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (Routledge, 2014). He is co-convener of the British International Studies Association's Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial working group, and co-editor of the book series Kilombo: International Relations and the Colonial Question (Rowman & Littlefield International). |