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UK universities: pedagogy, student and staff experience, decolonising
- Racism at Work: The Danger of Indifference by Binna Kandola
- Taking Up Space by Chelsea Kwakye and Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi
- On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed
- Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy edited by Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza
- Decolonising the University edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu
- A FLY Girl’s Guide to University by Lola Olufemi, Odelia Younge, Waithera Sebatindira, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Speaking Data and Telling Stories by Dr Martin Glynn
- Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
- Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie by Tukufu Zuberi
- White Logic White Methods by Tukufu Zuberi and Edwardo Bonilla-Silva
UK universities and Students’ Unions
- Tackling Racism Harassment: Universities Challenged (Equality and Human Rights Commission 2019)
- Insider-Outsider by Sofia Akel (Goldsmiths 2019)
- Closing the Gap (UUK and NUS 2019)
- Staying Power: The Career Experiences and Strategies of UK Black Female Professors by Dr Nicola Rollock (UCU 2019)
- Race Matters (NUS 2015)
- Kingston’s Approach to Addressing Differential Attainment by Annie Hughes (Kingston Presentation)
Race, mental health and employment
- Unmasking Racial Microaggressions by Tori DeAngelis (American Psychological Association)
- Employment and Earning Differences in the Early Career of Ethnic Minority British Graduates: The Importance of University Career, Parental Background and Area Characteristics by Wouter Zwysen and Simonetta Longhi (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2017)
Government and organisational reports (gov.uk 2017/18)
- Hate Crime, England and Wales 2017/18 Statistical Bulletin (gov.uk 2017/18)
- Pupil Exclusions 2018 (GOV.UK 2018)
- Equality in Higher Education: Staff Statistical Report 2018 (Advance HE 2018)
- Equality in Higher Education: Students Statistical Report 2018 (Advance HE 2018)
Pedagogy and praxis
- Dismantling power and privilege through reflexivity: negotiating normative Whiteness, the Eurocentric curriculum and racial micro-aggressions within the Academy by Jason Arday (Journal of Whiteness and Education, 2018)
- Teaching race, racism and racial justice: Pedagogical principles and classroom strategies for course instructors by M.Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber and Joe Bandy (Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, 2019)
- Valuing diversity in the social science curriculum by Marion Bowl (Journal of Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2005)
- Should ethnicity matter when teaching about ‘race’ and racism in the classroom? by Shirin Housee (Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2008)
- Pedagogy of fear: Toward a Fanonian theory of ‘safety’ in race dialogue by Zeus Leonardo and Ronald Porter
- Race talk: The psychology of racial dialogues by Derald Wing Sue (Journal of American Psychologist, 2013)
- Pedagogies of strategic empathy: Navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education by Michalinos Zambylas (Journal of Teaching in Higher Education, 2012)
Islamophobia
- Women ‘Bearing Brunt’ of Rising Islamophobic Attacks in the UK (The Independent, 2017)
- Living in Fear: One in Three Muslim Students Attacked on Campus as Islamophobic Hate Crime Surges (The Independent 2018)
- ‘Satisfied settling’? Investigating a sense of belonging for Muslim students in a UK small - medium Higher Education Institution by Maisha Islam, Tom Lowe and Gary Jones (Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal 2018)
UK universities and UCAS
- UK Universities Condemned for Failure to Tackle Racism (The Guardian 2019)
- Ucas Admits Failures After New Data Reveals Black Students More Likely to Have University Applications Investigated (The Independent 2018)
- Suspended for Exposing ‘Hate Speech’ (BBC 2018)
- Office for Students: Universities Must Eliminate Equality Gaps (OFS 2018)
- Tackling Racial Harrassment in Higher Education (Universities UK, 2020)
Employment discrimination in UK universities
- Ethnic Minority Academics Earn Less than White Colleagues (BBC 2018)
- Revealed: How Ethnic Minority Graduates Lose out on Jobs (The Guardian 2017)