Directory of expertise in Race Equality

Staff who have added their details to the Directory of Expertise in Race Equality can be viewed below. Thank you to all staff who have provided their details.

Dr Diane Atherton-Blenkiron

Student Safeguarding Officer/PhD Candidate

Department: Students Union/School of Law

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

Areas of Interest/Expertise: Experiences of Muslim women solicitors in the legal profession / Barriers to reporting hate crime and hate incidents 


Sorin Baiasu

Professor of Philosophy

Department: SPIRE

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/spire/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/english/people/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 on a number of BAME authors: Monica Ali, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Courttia Newland, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Zadie Smith and Alex Wheatle/ research interests and publications in postcolonial theory/ esearch interests in literature and cultural theory about youth (sub)cultures. This research often includes aspects pertaining to race and racism / research intersets and publications in working-class literature which often includes aspects pertaining to the intersectional relationships between class and race (and gender and age)


Lorna Lloyd

Senior Research Fellow

Department: SPIRE

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

Areas of Interest/Expertise: Treatment of Indians in South Africa 1860-1950


Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz

Lecturer in Ethnomusicology

Department: School of Music & Music Technology

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/music/people/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: SPIRE 

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/spire/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 


Dr Jan Pascal

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

Department: SSPP

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/sspp/people/staff/janpascal/

Areas of Interest/Expertise:  SE Asian immigration to Australian rural communities / Cultural diversity in curriculum design and development to include BME perspectives e.g critical of 'non-normative' assumptions 


James Peacock

Senior Lecturer 

Department: Humanities

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/english/people/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

Programme Director in Media, Communications and Culture

Department: Humanities

Homepage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/mcc/people/elizabethpoole/

Areas of Interest/Expertise:  Representations of Muslims/Islam in the media (UK) / Representation of ethincities 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

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


Dr Cora Lingling Xu

Lecturer in Education

Department: SSPP

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/sspp/people/staff/coraxu/

Areas of Interest/Expertise:  Inequalities in higher education / education mobilities / China studies / Social Theories / transnational education

 

 

Lisa Lau

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

Reader

Department: GGE

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

Areas of Interest/Expertise: Migration - global regimes, Southeast Asia, Canada, UK, and irregularity / Area Studies - Philippines / Labour - domestic work/carework


Adam Moolna

Teaching Fellow 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: RI, Primary Care and Health Sciences

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

Areas of Interest/Expertise: Mental health, inequalities, BAME  https://www.keele.ac.uk/pchs/research/mentalhealth/roshni-2/  


Peter Coventry

Director of Undergraduate Programmes

Department: Medicine

Homepage:

Areas of Interest/Expertise: I have led in house work looking at differential attainment (by gender and  race) in assessments and admissions. 


Dr. Saeed Farooq

Clinical Senior Lecturer & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist

Department: Research Institute of Primary care health sciences

Homepage:  https://www.keele.ac.uk/pchs/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: Research Institute of Primary care health sciences

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

Areas of Interest/Expertise: Covert Discrimination  / Editorial Board Representation in Journals  / Relative number of students and staff  ration of ethnic minority communities  

 

 

 

 

Do you have interests in research related to the challenges of achieving race equality?

The Race-Equality Charter (REC) Self-Assessment Team (SAT) is eager to record the level of interest and/or expertise across the institution in research related to race, racism, and/or race-equality.

We would like to record your engagement with relevant research topics, even if you do not have any publications, or consider yourself to be an expert, on a particular topic. The information gathered will be used to inform Keele University’s work toward a REC Bronze Award, and wider Equality and Diversity work taking place within the institution.

The information will be recorded and stored on a spreadsheet that will be shared with the REC SAT. The information will also be published below; a link will be added from the webpages to your personal profile pages, so you may wish to consider updating your pages to ensure that it aligns with the information recorded on the spreadsheet.

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