Black & Minority Ethnic Experiences in Higher Education: Social Justice, Inclusion & White Privilege

Описание: As part of EDI Week 2022, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion presented a keynote lecture from Dr. Kalwant Bhopal, PhD of the University of Birmingham, titled Black and Minority Ethnic Experiences in Higher Education: Social Justice, Inclusion and White Privilege. In this lecture, Dr. Bhopal examined how Black and minority ethnic staff and students remain marginalised in higher education. It provided statistical data on the inequalities experienced by staff and students, followed by empirical research on Black and minority ethnic academics in UK and US higher education. The lecture also explored how processes of whiteness and white privilege work to perpetuate the white space of higher education. The lecture concluded by examining possible ways forward for higher education to engage with a socially just agenda for the inclusion of all groups.

|About the Keynote Speaker
Dr. Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre on Research on Race and Education at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Kalwant’s research focuses on the achievements and experiences of minority ethnic groups in education. She has conducted research on exploring discourses of identity and intersectionality examining the lives of Black minority ethnic groups as well as examining the marginal position of Gypsies and Travellers. Her research specifically explores how processes of racism, exclusion and marginalization operate in predominantly White spaces with a focus on social justice and inclusion. From 2017-2019 she was Visiting Professor at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education. Her recent book, White Privilege: the myth of a post-racial society was published by policy press. Her new book (with Martin Myers) Elites and the making of privilege will be published by Routledge in 2022.