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