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.

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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)

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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