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Black History Month 2023
#LBUBHM
At Leeds Beckett, we are proud to take part in national celebrations to honour the accomplishments of black people and black communities in every area of endeavour.
Throughout the month we will be reflecting on Black history, but also looking at the work being done by academics, students, staff and alumni at the university.
Black History Month Events
Among the events taking place over the next few months are:
- Wed 4 Oct: 16:00 - 17:00 They Keep Talking About Us As Failures…’The Need to Reframe Debates Around BAME Student Outcomes in HE - Professor Louise Owusu, University of Greenwich
- Wed 18 Oct: 12:00-13:00 Bodies of Value in Academic Life - Professor Shirley Anne Tate, University of Alberta
- Thu 9 Nov: 12:00-13:00 Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State - Professor Arathi Sriprakash, University of Bristol
- Tue 5 Dec: 16:00 – 17:00 Raciolinguistic Ideologies Across Time and Space: From Colonialism into Academic Knowledge Production and Classrooms - Dr Ian Cushing, Manchester Metropolitan University
The Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality (CRED) challenges everyday racism and structural race inequalities in education through research, evidence-based practice and the professional development of pre-service and in-service teachers nationally and internationally. Their 23/24 seminar series is running throughout the next academic year.
In conversation
Blog | Working to address racism in schools through partnership and education
Blog | Analysing the lonely Londoners
Blog | Student explore the work of writers of colour
Blog | Celebrating the life and legacy of Gertrude Paul
Blog | Lessons in Creativity and Determination
Blog | Jamie Jones-Buchanan shares about the woman who inspires him
Blog | Who inspires Yona Knight-Wisdom
Our work
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An anti-racism framework for initial teacher training
The university’s Centre for Race Education and Decoloniality (CRED) is leading a new dedicated network that will see schools in Liverpool share anti-racist knowledge and best practice.
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The poetry collection honouring the lives of Black and Brown women
Bath of Herbs is the first collection from Emily Zobel Marshall, a Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Recognised for race equality progress with national award
LBU has been awarded a bronze from Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter for its ambitions to advance race equality.
Student work | Slavery podcast series
The podcasts you can access below have been produced by our BA (hons) History students as part of their Decolonisation’ and ‘Slavery and Unfree Labour’ modules. Decolonisation considers key events, themes and debates in the history of the unravelling of western overseas empires in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Slavery and Unfree Labour expands and deepens students' engagement with wider world history through a focus on human bondage across the British Empire, an institution whose legacies continue to shape our contemporary perceptions of race, regional development and coercive work practices.
Race Equality Charter
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are key to our culture of care and at the core of how we work with all members of our community.Â
We seek to develop further as a learning organisation and as the best possible place to work and study, to be a ‘Community of Great People’ and to ‘provide an excellent education and experience’ for all our colleagues and students.
