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        • Care, Community and Researching With
        • EDI is a Bitch
        • South Asian Intergenerational Collaboration
        • Food for thought: decolonial dining and dreaming as anti-racist praxis
        • Do universities serve to pursue the truth?
        • It is Myself, Terror, It is Myself
        • Black women’s acts of resistance, joy and community in the carceral space
        • Does My Childhood Count?
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'Race' and Socially Engaged Research
  • Home
  • News
    • Call for Papers 2026
  • Programme
  • Publications
    • Working Paper
      • 2024 - Volume 1
        • Preamble
        • Background and Introduction
        • Reflexive Researchers
        • Learning From Colonial Themed Board Games
        • A Journey from Roe v. Wade to Beatriz v. El Salvador
        • The Incidence of Stomach Bugs Across Differing Minorities
        • Disrupting the Discourse: Toward a Disruptive Pedagogy
      • 2025 - Volume 2
        • Preamble
        • Introduction and Background
        • Care, Community and Researching With
        • EDI is a Bitch
        • South Asian Intergenerational Collaboration
        • Food for thought: decolonial dining and dreaming as anti-racist praxis
        • Do universities serve to pursue the truth?
        • It is Myself, Terror, It is Myself
        • Black women’s acts of resistance, joy and community in the carceral space
        • Does My Childhood Count?
    • Blog
      • Towards a Disruptive Pedagogy in Higher Education
      • This Poem is a Criticism
      • Conspicuous by their absence: Bearing witness to the silenced voices of Bla
    • Statement on Safety
    • Manifesto
  • About us
    • ARWG
    • Conference Team 2026
    • Contact Us
    • Previous Years
      • 2024
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    • Home
    • News
      • Call for Papers 2026
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      • Working Paper
        • 2024 - Volume 1
          • Preamble
          • Background and Introduction
          • Reflexive Researchers
          • Learning From Colonial Themed Board Games
          • A Journey from Roe v. Wade to Beatriz v. El Salvador
          • The Incidence of Stomach Bugs Across Differing Minorities
          • Disrupting the Discourse: Toward a Disruptive Pedagogy
        • 2025 - Volume 2
          • Preamble
          • Introduction and Background
          • Care, Community and Researching With
          • EDI is a Bitch
          • South Asian Intergenerational Collaboration
          • Food for thought: decolonial dining and dreaming as anti-racist praxis
          • Do universities serve to pursue the truth?
          • It is Myself, Terror, It is Myself
          • Black women’s acts of resistance, joy and community in the carceral space
          • Does My Childhood Count?
      • Blog
        • Towards a Disruptive Pedagogy in Higher Education
        • This Poem is a Criticism
        • Conspicuous by their absence: Bearing witness to the silenced voices of Bla
      • Statement on Safety
      • Manifesto
    • About us
      • ARWG
      • Conference Team 2026
      • Contact Us
      • Previous Years
        • 2024
        • 2023

Contents

Preamble - Susannah G Williams


  1. Introduction and Background: Reflections on Creating Spaces for Resistance, Joy and Community in Hostile Times and Precarity - Susannah G Williams and Baasimah Batool


  1. Care, Community and Researching With: Disrupting the Neoliberalisation of Ethics in Higher Education Through and Ethics of Care Framework - Melissa Williams and Susannah G Williams


  1. EDI is a Bitch - Laura Rennie


  1. South Asian Intergenerational Collaboration: An Ongoing Study - Zakiyyah Ahmed 


  1. Food for thought: decolonial dining and dreaming as anti-racist praxis - Victoria Burgher 


  1. Do universities serve to pursue the truth? An essay on how the militarisation of British universities is the biggest barrier to decolonising university curriculum - Iman Khan 


  1. It is Myself, Terror, It is Myself: The Dialogue Between ‘Re-creating’ Fanonian Consciousness and Steve Biko’s Black Pride Movement - Harry Strange 


  1. Black women’s acts of resistance, joy and community in the carceral space - Dr Paula McLean


  1. Does My Childhood Count? Examining White Childhoods and Reimagining Early Childhood Education and Care - Duha Ceylan

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Meet this year's Conference Team

Mel Williams (she/her)

Mel is a third year PhD Student based in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York. The current working title for her PhD is: ‘We are Here to Stay Inna Inglan: Britain’s Immigration Regime, Contingent Status and Belonging Amongst Windrush Descendants of Jamaican Heritage’.

Alongside her studies, Mel is also involved in community work and activism, mostly focussed on social justice, anti-racism, access to justice, and ‘Windrush’. Mel is co-founder and member of the ‘Anti-Racism Working Group’ based at the University of York, EDI Consultant at the Anthony Walker Foundation and an active member of various regional anti-racism focussed organisations. Mel particularly believes in the importance of connecting activism with research, legal practice and the arts to trigger necessary change, and has worked with the rest of the conference team to create this interdisciplinary space for PhD students and ECRs.

Susy Williams (she/her)

Susy is a third year PhD student, based in the University of York Politics and International Relations Department. Her research, situated within Critical Political Economy and Labour Migration Studies, is focused on the barriers to addressing the (super)exploitation of migrant workers in the fast fashion manufacturing industry in the UK. She adopts critical approaches in her research, including frameworks from post/de/anti-colonial, post-Marxist, post-structuralist and feminist theoretical lenses, while aiming to be disruptive in research methodology.

Additionally to her research, Susy has co-led the Anti-Racism Working Group with Mel since early 2022, and is involved in other social justice activist work. She collaboratively set up and coordinated the York Staff-Student Alliance with four other PGRs; works closely with a garment worker rights organisation which informs her approach to research; and supports different local community groups within York, including migrant solidarity and Palestinian solidarity campaigns.

Dr Paula McLean


Dr Paula McLean graduated with her PhD from the University of Wolverhampton in 2024. She is a former Probation Officer and her current role is that of a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Sheffield Hallam University. 

Her thesis was concerned with examining the experiences of Black women in the criminal justice system (CJS) utilising a Black feminist lens to analyse their personal narratives. Her interest was piqued through both her career as a Probation Officer and a Black woman witnessing the disparities and the disregard of academia, government state agencies to actively address the invisibility, mistreatment and silenced voices of this group of women. 

Paula seeks to continue to research the plight of Black women in the CJS. Her most recent work is a book chapter discussing Black women's activism in prisons. The book is due to be released in January 2026 entitled ‘Women, Relationships and Criminal Justice: The Personal and Professional.’  

Victory Chidinma


Victory is a nurse, lecturer, author, and doctoral researcher whose work critically examines race, power, and marginality in nursing education. Her research draws on decolonial and critical race perspectives to explore racialised bullying, belonging, and structural inequities in higher education. She is the founder of a Healing Studio that centres reflection, restoration, and leadership development for Global Majority professionals, and she is the author of several books that explore identity, equity, and inclusive practice. Victory is committed to socially engaged scholarship that bridges lived experience, research, and practice to foster more just and inclusive academic and clinical environments.

Victory Chidinma Oforji | LinkedIn

https://www.thehealingstudiogw.co.uk/

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