BAME Resources

This is a resource that was collated by some members (Lorraine Agu, Glen Jankowski, Lisa Long and Erika Laredo) that looks at decolonizing Higher Education.

Anti-Racism in Universities Resources

• NUS Racism in HE report (2012)
• NUS and Universities UK (2019). Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic student attainment at UK universities: #closingthegap. 
• Torino’s (2015) useful paper examining different learning exercises for promoting anti-racism including experiential learning, group based learning and didactic methods. 
• Johnson (2002) argues that job criteria in HE needs to be amended to hire the right lecturers.
• The Jigsaw Classroom teaching method
• Anti-Racism in HE toolkits
• Long, L. (working paper). ‘Decolonizing’ police education? Exploring anti-racist approaches to police education and professional development. [Extract: “This paper explores the potential for the anti-racist, decolonizing education agenda to extend to other White institutions, specifically the police”. Please email Lisa.Long@leedsbeckett.ac.uk for a copy].
• Fazackerley, A (2019) Look at how white the academy is’: why BAME students aren’t doing PhDs The Guardian.
• National Union of Students, Why is my curriculum white? [film funded by University College London] accessed May 29, 2019.
• Open University, The Innovating Pedagogy 2019, Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers, report, January 2019.
• Shilliam, R (2014, July 28th) Black Academia in Britain [blogpost].
• SOAS (2018) Decolonising teaching and learning Toolkit 
• Tate, S (2019) Tackling the ‘BPOC’ Attainment Gap in UK Universities
• ERHC (2019). Tackling racial harassment: universities challenged.
• Alterline Project (2018) Black Student Attainment Gap: A review of the Literature
• Bunce L. Naomi King, Sinitta Saran & Nabeela Talib (2019): Experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) students in higher education: applying self-determination theory to understand the BME attainment gap, Studies in Higher Education

 Leeds Beckett Resources

• Staff Race Equality forum: To join email equalities@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
• Centre for learning and teaching: For more information contact priestley@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
• Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality (CRED): Academic Lead: Dr Shona Hunter – d.hunter@leedsbeckett.ac.uk // CRED@leedsbeckett.ac.uk