Dr. Lambros Fatsis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the City University of London.
His research focuses on police racism and the criminalisation of Black/Afro-diasporic music(s), drawing primarily on Cultural Criminology and Black radical thought. He focusses on how certain forms of public expression and creativity are not only marginalised in the relevant academic literature, but also criminalised by law enforcement agencies and the legal penal system more broadly. As such, Dr. Fatsis' work addresses ‘deviance’ as a racialised political category in the context of Britain's colonial past and institutionally racist present, with a particular emphasis on policing.
Find out more about his research here: https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/lambros-fatsis#research-link
Tareeq Jalloh is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield and Research Associate at the University of Manchester. The scope of his current research is rap and oppression, specifically whether certain critiques of rap are based in racist assumptions and misunderstandings. Two questions are central to his project: First, does rap contribute to oppression? Second, if there are no adequate frameworks for substantiating the claim that rap contributes to oppression, what explains why it is often the target of intense scrutiny?
Find out more about his research here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/people/philosophy-staff/tareeq-jalloh
Dr. Ethan Nowak is assistant professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. Most of his work is in the philosophy of language. Some has to do with the semantics and pragmatics of referring expressions, like names and demonstratives. Some is more socially-inflected. Dr. Nowak has projects, for example, on the value of linguistic diversity, on what linguistic justice would be for groups and individuals, and on how we use language to craft ourselves. This last project draws in particular on some themes from Chinese philosophy.
Find out more about his research here: https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/ethan-nowak
Adèle Oliver is an artist, writer, scholar, and linguist, PhD student at the University of Glasgow and core team member of Art Not Evidence. As a Black Brit of Jamaican descent, personal interest drives her intellectual commitment to unravelling histories (and subsequent epistemologies) using an acutely critical lens. Oliver is the author of Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill;. Outside of her academic work, she is a music producer and artist.
Find out more about her work here: Inklings #18: Deeping It - Adèle Oliver — 404 Ink and here legendofeleda - Listen on Spotify - Linktree
Dr Joy White is a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire. She writes and researhces a range of themes, including: social mobility, urban marginality, youth violence, mental health/wellbeing and urban music. Dr. White is the author of Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise (Routledge: Advances in Sociology), one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of the UK urban music economy, with particular reference to Grime music. Dr. White has extensive knowledge and experience of training and consultancy in the Adult Care sector. As the founder of an east London training business that delivered targeted programmes to engage with young people who were NEET - not in education, employment or training, she has extensive, practical experience of enterprise, business start up and mentoring.
Find out more about her research here: https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/departments/appliedsocialsciences/staff/joy-white/