Our Teaching
We are involved in teaching students and supervising doctoral research about race, racism and anti-racism as part of our anti-racist scholar activism.
Teaching
Below are example contributions from Newcastle University students on the topic of anti-racism:
The videos are some of the very best videos produced by stage 3 BA students taking the module ‘Social Justice and Education’ as part of their Education or Combined Honours degree. The module is partly assessed by the making of a video (10-15 minutes in length) in which students must claim a problem in education relating to an educational inequity and propose a solution, justified from within a named political position. These videos focus directly on racial (in)justice and/or anti-racism.
Permission to share these videos has been granted by each individual student (Module Lead: Professor Heather Smith, ECLS).
Jessica Loftus – Celebrating BHM in Secondary Education: a temporary remedy for a chronic disease.
Mohammed Hussain – Islamophobia in Education
Promisha Chowdhury – Islamophobia in Education: Eliminating Inequity through Transformative Approaches.
Hannah Birch – Inaccessible Education for Asylum-seeking and Refugee children (2024)
Laura Price – immigration inequalities within UK schools: a socialist critical assessment
Daniella Hall – The Unjust Policing of Black Girls’ Hairstyles in Schools (2023)
Sophie Pegg – The marginalisation of black girls within education (2020)
Sarah Dickson – The lack of black teachers in leadership roles (2018)
Supervision
Examples of successfully completed doctoral theses that are partly informed by the work profiled on this blog include:
Alessandro Boussalem – “Who is more intersectional than me?” An ethnography of the social locations of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background in Brussels, Belgium.
Nathar Iqbal – The closet, encounters and lived religion: reflections on the experiences of LGBT British Muslims
Rahielah Ali – Gender, faith and locality: Muslim women in Scotland