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English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation
History & The Arts

English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation

...article...Last week, Ben John, a 21-year-old former criminology student at De Montfort University, was given a suspended two-year prison sentence and a five-year Serious Crime Prevention order for possessing neo-Nazi and terror-related documents. At his trial at Leicester Crown Court, it was revealed that John had amassed nearly 70,000 digital files relating to Adolf...
Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...article explores ...There is growing recognition across the higher education (HE) sector that an institution’s leadership should be representative of wider society. As institutions strive to ensure diversity is championed and that diverse viewpoints are reflected, it is equally important for individual decision-makers to reflect on their own recruitment practice and use...
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...article of 1853 ‘The Noble Savage’, in which he comments on the exhibitions of indigenous people that were popular in London in the mid-nineteenth century. Here, he lampoons Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s romantic idea of the nobility of so-called uncivilised peoples and argues that ‘savage’ non-European cultures have few redeeming features. Dickens was even more...
What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...article...There has been increasing interest in how psychological knowledge is constructed. The contribution of ecological issues and local context to the development of psychological knowledge with particular reference to localised psychological knowledge, i.e., indigenous psychology, is still not included in mainstream psychology study. Yet, ecology and psychology are...
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...article explores the injustice in the Criminal Justice System experienced by black women. ...Background: police violence against black women In response to the death of George Floyd who was killed in 2020 by a US police officer kneeling on his neck, despite protestations of not being able to breathe from both himself and onlookers, the Black Lives Matters (BLM) movement...
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...et al., 2017, p. 5). Taking an intersectional approach, which centralises issues of culture and race, is key in terms of developing culturally responsive pedagogy. Culture as defined by Sheryl Taylor and Donna Sobel (2001, p. xv) is multifaceted, dynamic, shared, learned, and can be transmitted from generation to generation or group to group. That said, questions to...
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...article, Anna Page reflects on meeting and being in the presence of the cleric and social activist at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town...It was a grey, damp Boxing day morning 2021 in England and the very sad news arrived of the death at age 90 of Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu earlier that morning in Cape Town after a full and active life of great moral conviction and...
Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...article exploring the findings in more depth. However, we can give some initial results of the research and some of the interventions we have already begun to try to improve our students’ experience. Our Associate Lecturers, many of whom taught on the previous module (A217: Introducing Religions) which was framed more within the World Religions Paradigm, had preferences...