This event supported BERA’s ambitions of addressing racial inequity within the Association and the wider research community. It was important to showcase and learn from the best practices of anti-racist scholars in addressing racial injustice. Scotland had been at the forefront of tackling racial injustices within educational settings. In 2021, staff and students led the “Tackling Racism on Campus” project, in which all universities and colleges committed to embedding anti-racist practices in their institutions. In 2023, Scotland launched its first-ever anti-racism framework for initial teacher education, which included guidance for initial teacher education providers and schools across Scotland. This event allowed the national and international education community—including researchers, teachers, community educators, and scholars—to hear from three scholars who had led anti-racist agendas in Scotland, focusing on research, policy, and practice on anti-racism and decolonisation.
Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University
Dr Saima Salehjee is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University London. She is responsible for teaching and research work, particularly on Science Education. Saima has received grants to continue her research with underprivileged...
Lecturer: Applied Language & Literacy Studies at University of Strathclyde
Dr Navan Govender (he/they) (SFHEA) is a scholar-activist whose interdisciplinary research and teaching explores the relationship between language, meaning-making, power, identity, and ideology in education. Through critical, queer, and...
Associate Dean EDI at University of the West of Scotland
My own experiences as both a Teacher and Teacher Educator, working with young children in primary school, encourage me to consider ways to enthuse learners to participate as socially and morally responsible citizens. In order to do this, we need...