Progressing Race in Higher Education: Inclusion, Diversity and Inequality Seminar
- Time:
- 10:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 6 June 2014
- Venue:
- Venue Wide Lane Eastleigh Southampton SO50 5PE
For more information regarding this seminar, please email To reserve a place or for any queries please email Hazel Brown at h.brown@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
This one-day seminar is sponsored by the Society for Educational Studies and being run by members of the Race and Ethnicity Special Interest Group within Southampton Education School. Attendance is free and includes lunch and refreshments. This seminar will be of interest to all those interested in race, ethnicity and diversity issues within higher education. Workshop 1: Policy initiatives and ‘good practice’ in higher education Workshop 2: Practical implications for the inclusion of BME students and staff in higher education: moving forward
Programme
| 1000 | Arrival and refreshments |
| 1030 | Keynote speakers Dr Kalwant Bhopal, Dr Hazel Brown and June Jackson, University of Southampton |
| 1100 | Keynote speaker Professor Andrew Pilkington, University of Northampton |
| 1130 | Open floor for questions |
| 1145 | Refreshments and book launch by Jim Thakoordin |
| 1200 | Workshops Workshop 1 Policy initiatives and ‘good practice’ in higher education Dr Diane Bebbington (Diversity Advisor, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education) Claire Herbert (Equality Challenge Unit) Race Equality Charter Kamaljit Kerridge-Poonia (Head of Diversity and Equality, University of Southampton) Workshop 2 Practical implications for the inclusion of BME students and staff in higher education: moving forward Professor Chris Mullard CBE DL Hon LLD (Member of HEFCE’s Widening Participation & Student Opportunity Strategic Advisory Committee (WPSOSAC); Jim Thakoordin, (UCU Vice Chair Black Members National Committee) |
| 1315 | Lunch |
| 1415 | Workshops 1 and 2 repeated enabling all delegates to attend both. |
| 1530 | Refreshments |
| 1545 | Reports from the workshops |
| 1615 | Final panel: question and answer session Dr Kalwant Bhopal Dr Diane Bebbington Professor Andrew Pilkington |
| 1645-1700 | Closing remarks |
Speaker information
Dr Kalwant Bhopal,Southampton Education School, author of Educational inequalities: difference and diversity in schools and higher education amongst many other books and articles on equality and diversity issues
Professor Andrew Pilkington, University of Northampton. researcher and author in equality and diversity issues within higher education
Dr Diane Bebbington, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Diversity Advisor
Claire Herbert, Race Equality Charter. Equality Challenge Unit
Kamaljit Kerridge-Poonia, University of Southampton. Head of Diversity
Professor Chris Mullard CBE, member of HEFCE’s . widening participation and student opportunity strategic advisory committee
Jim Thakoordin, Black Members National Committee. UCU Vice Chair