Directory of expertise in race equality

Dr Diane Blenkiron

Lecturer in Law

Department: School of Law

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/law/research/pgrresearchstudents/dianeatherton/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

I have an interest in the intersections of race, gender and religion in the Legal Profession, and have published in this area.

Sorin Baiasu

Professor of Philosophy

Department: Social Sciences

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/baiasu/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Epistemic injustice in general, including issues concerning race.

Justice and pluralism, including issues related to racial differences.

Sartre, colonialism and neo-colonialism

Nick Bentley

Senior Lecturer

Department: Humanities

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities/ourpeople/nickbentley/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Black Asian and Minority Ethnic British literature (mainly fiction) from the 1950s to the present.

Published research articles/book chapters in relation to a wide range of authors including: Monica Ali, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Courttia Newland, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Zadie Smith and Alex Wheatle.

I have research interests and publications in postcolonial theory and further research interests in literature and cultural theory about youth (sub)cultures. This research often includes aspects pertaining to race and racism. Publications on working-class literature often includes aspects pertaining to the intersectional relationships between class and race (and gender and age)

Lorna Lloyd

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Department: Social Sciences

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/lloyd/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Treatment of Indians in South Africa 1860-1950

Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz

Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology

Department: School of Humanities

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities/ourpeople/fiorellamonterodiaz/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima. Anthropologica, vol. 36(40), (2018) pp.97-120.

YouTubing the "Other": Lima's Upper Classes and Andean Imaginaries.In Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media, eds Hilder, Stobart and Tan. NY:University of Rochester Press, 2017.

Singing the war: reconfiguring white upper-class identity through fusion music in post-war Lima. Ethnomusicology Forum, vol. 25(2), (2016) pp. 191-209.

'Review of Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico'. By Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. In Journal of Latin American Studies. Vol. 50(1), (2018) pp. 262-264.

'Review of Song and Social Change in Latin America’ edited by Lauren Shaw. H-Music, H-Net Review(2017).

Jonathan Parker

Senior Lecturer in Politics

Department: Social Sciences

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/parker/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Race and Voting Rights (voter suppression and gerrymandering, in particular)

Segregation, particularly around education

Achievement Gap in Higher Education - particularly around how particular pedagogical approaches can reduce it 

James Peacock

Reader

Department: Humanities

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities/ourpeople/jamespeacock

Areas of Interest/Expertise:  

The literature of gentrification: I look at literary representations of changing urban spaces, and the shifting relationship between local/neighbourhood identities and global flows and forces. A big part of this involves issues of inclusion and exclusion, looking at race and ethnicity. 

Elizabeth Poole

Professor of Media and Communications

Department: Humanities

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities/ourpeople/elizabethpoole/

Areas of Interest/Expertise:  

Representations of Muslims/Islam in the media (UK)

Representation of ethnicities and religion in media

Production of news about Muslims/ diversity issues

Reception of news about Muslims/diversity issues

Hate speech/Islamophobia on social media

Shiva Sikdar

Senior Lecturer

Department: KBS

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/kbs/staff/shivasikdar/

Areas of Interest/Expertise:  

Economics of discrimination

Affirmative action

Education and human capital investment

Identity blind policies

Lisa Lau

Senior Lecturer

Department: GGE

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/gge/people/lisalau/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Postcolonial studies

Power and inequalities

Gender and Intersectionalities 

Deirdre McKay

Professor

Department: GGE

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/gge/people/deirdremckay/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Migration - global regimes and retirement/regional UK

Area Studies - Philippines, UK

Environment - sustainability, community science and community engagement

Adam Moolna

Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability

Department: GGE

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/gge/people/adammoolna/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Social justice within environmental sustainability in the western Indian Ocean and East Africa, with race and ethnicity closely tied to socioeconomic status and social exclusion 

Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham

Professor of General Practice Research

Department: School of Medicine

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/medicine/staff/professors/carolynchew-graham/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Mental health and inequalities. See a summary of Keele's research in this area here: https://www.keele.ac.uk/health/fmhsresearchthemes/mentalhealthandwellbeing/roshni-2/

and publications including:

Understanding ethnic inequalities in mental healthcare in the UK: A meta-ethnography

Professor Saeed Farooq

Global Research Professor, National Institute of Health and Care Research, UK
Professor of Psychiatry and Public Mental Health, School of Medicine, Keele University
Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Co-Lead Mental Health and Wellbeing Research, School of Medicine, Keele University
Joint Mental Health Research Lead, NIHR West Midlands Clinical Research Network

Department: School of Medicine

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/medicine/staff/seniorresearchers/saeedfarooq/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Race related issues in mental health

Working through interpreters

Ethnic differences in physical health outcomes in people with severe mental illness 

Professor Athula Sumathipala

Professor of Psychiatry

Department: School of Medicine

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/medicine/staff/professors/sumathipalaathula/

Areas of Interest/Expertise: 

Covert Discrimination

Editorial Board Representation in Journals

Relative number of students and staff and the ratio to ethnic minority communities.