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School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cultural Studies and Humanities Good News May 2022

The latest good news from the School of Cultural Studies & Humanities in May 2022.

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School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Published on 14 Jun 2022

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Research News

Dr Daniel Kilvington presented his research on British South Asians and football at Villa Park to launch the English Premier League (EPL) and Kick It Out’s South Asian Action Plan. Dan has been working with the EPL since 2021 in shaping and developing inclusion strategies for players and coaches.

Dan published the book chapter ‘Investigating Online Fan Responses to the Rooney Rule in English Football’ alongside Jonathan Cable (University of Gloucestershire), Sophie Cowell (university of Chester), Glyn Mottershead (University of London) and Christopher Webster (Leeds Beckett University) in Jimmy Sanderson’s edited collection Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology. The feeds into Dan’s wider work exploring hate speech in digital media.

Dan was interviewed by The Mirror for a story focusing on football’s social media boycott. He discusses the efficacy of this strategy, its impact, and what other solutions are required to curb online hate within football. You can read the article here.

On 25th April Prof Rob Burroughs gave evidence to the Belgian Parliament's Special Commission on the Colonial Past. Rob partook in a sitting on the responsibilities of royalty which lasted three and a half hours. Rob's research in his African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform (2018) is furthermore cited several times in the 700-page (Dutch-language) report produced by the commission's teams of academic experts.

Public History Module 2022

This year's Public History Project, the "Leeds Monuments Map", went live on 11 May. This resource was one of the outcomes of Alderwoman Alison Lowe's review of statues in Leeds commissioned by Leeds City Council in the Summer of 2020, supported (among others) by Dr Simon Morgan and Dr Emily Marshall of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities.

The public consultation that was part of the review revealed a widespread lack of knowledge of exactly who was commemorated in Leeds. Alison therefore recommended that Leeds Beckett students, in association with the Leeds Civic Trust, be commissioned to address that gap. In the autumn of 2021, fifteen History students on the Public History Project module led by Simon Morgan began recording information about a large number of statues, murals and other memorial sites in the City dedicated to specific individuals.

The result is an interactive map of the memorials, with detailed information about each site and contextual blog posts written by the students themselves. There is also a form where members of the public can nominate sites not yet included for future students to research. The Leeds Monuments Map website can be accessed here.

Funding Success

The History Team have had a major external funding success with Dr Simon Morgan (Principal Investigator) and Dr Helen Dampier (Co-Investigator) being awarded £70,000 of funding under the Arts and Humanities Research Council's "Follow-on Funding" scheme for The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865) Online: an exploration in active citizenship.

This money will be used to make digital transcripts of c. 5,700 unpublished letters by this important 19th Century statesman available in an open-access online archive. The project will be working with schools in Leeds and Greater Manchester to develop teaching materials based on the letters to support the teaching of Citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4, and will also include an exhibition on the theme of Cobden and Citizenship at the Manchester Central Library in the Spring of 2023 and a launch event at the Palace of Westminster in association with the History of Parliament Trust.

Publishing News

Rob Burroughs gave a paper at 'What's Happening in Black British History?' at Bangor University on Saturday 14th May. Rob previewed his new book, which will be published by Liverpool UP in November 2022.

The latest issue of Good Housekeeping features extracts from an interview with Dr Henry Irving on the history of recycling. The interview forms part of a six-page feature on ‘100 Years of Environmental Change’ and traces changing attitudes towards rubbish since the lifestyle magazine was first published in 1922. Other contributors include the executive director of Greenpeace UK, the director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy and a transport spokesperson from Friends of the Earth.

Green Impact

On Wednesday 11 May, Charlotte Plumb and Adele Jackson attended the 2021-22 Green Impact Awards Dinner and received a gold award for the Case Study they submitted in this year’s NUS/SOS-UK Green Impact project cycle.

Each year, the Green Impact programme invites colleagues to initiate a team to devise a sustainability project that contributes towards the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, working together to go green and take sustainability action within their school or department.

Feedback from the Green Impact team noted: “This was a great project that demonstrates the importance of decolonising within the sustainability movement, and shows that holistic sustainability is not just about the environment.”

Charlotte and Adele are grateful for the contributions that the DtCWG provided in the early stages of the project that made its creation possible. It is also recognised that the Green Impact Award is not a measure of the success of how much the project decolonised the School’s curriculum, rather how the project served as a mechanism to bring EDI to the attention of the School, establishing a platform for future initiatives through a shared understanding of what had already been achieved, and a collective acknowledgement that more work is still to be done in this area.

Events

The David Oluwale Memorial Association hosted an unveiling of a blue Civic Trust plaque on Leeds Bridge in memory of the life and death of David Oluwale, a Nigerian migrant who was hounded to his death in Leeds by police in 1969. The event was supported by Leeds Beckett Applied Humanities students Emily Ward, Emily Meehan and Grace Coupland. They helped organise the event as part of their placement with DOMA. Sadly, the blue plaque was stolen from the bridge hours after it was unveiled.

Following the theft of the blue plaque there was an overwhelmingly positive response from business and arts institutions across the city. Images of the plaque were projected in millennium square and on electronic billboards and will soon be up on screens in LBU. Emily is quoted in this Guardian article which details the response. Emily was also interviewed about the plaque for BBC Radio Leeds, Look North and the BBC News website.

The students also did an excellent job of supporting a DOMA and LBU event at the Leeds Library the following evening. Emily Zobel Marshall interviewed the British-Caribbean author and DOMA patron Caryl Phillips, who ran a creative writing workshop after the interview. This was a sold-out event hosted by the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities. The writing workshop was attended by Cultural Studies students who will be submitting their creative responses to the Oluwale story to an anthology of writing to be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2023.

Dr Caroline Herbert hosted a public conversation with the author Jaspreet Kaur about her new book Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guide and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women at the Leeds Grammar School.

The book draws on Jaspreet’s experiences growing up and her work as a history teacher, as well as academic research and interviews with a range of women, to explore a range of issues—from mental health to menstruation, education to cultural appropriation, social media to Eurocentric beauty standards. The event included a performance of Indian classical music by Leeds-based Keertan Kaur and Bhavanjot Singh, an in-depth conversation about Jaspreet’s work, and an inspiring Q&A with a sold-out audience.