Many years ago, I came to Manchester to visit a friend at the Global Development Institute. My train stopped at Victoria Station, and I remember thinking about the mix of history and contemporary architecture. I couldn’t stop gazing at the redness and earthiness of...
Decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed across HE, but what it means in day-to-day teaching is less clear. The idea, examining how colonialism, domination, imperialism, and racism have shaped academic knowledge and excluded non-Western voices in higher education, is well-established in theory (Mignolo, 2017; Stockdale and Sweeney, 2022). Yet I’ve wondered how well our everyday teaching materials reflect these ideas in practice, and how we might translate theory into everyday pedagogical work.
Featuring Dr Kelechi Njoku, Irene Nambuya and Emmanuel Okwelogu. Representation in cancer research is essential for advancing progress and ensuring that discoveries benefit all communities. This Black History Month, we celebrate Black leaders at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, highlighting their proudest moments, lessons learned, and hopes for the future.
Growing up in the Bahamas, living in the United States, and now calling the UK home, my identity as a Black woman has been shaped by the places I’ve inhabited. Each country has shown me different ways of understanding race, gender, and what it means to belong. What hasn’t changed is the resilience I’ve needed to navigate systems that weren’t built with people like me in mind. Black History Month’s 2025 theme, Standing Firm in Power and Pride, speaks to something I know well: flourishing as a Black woman in higher education means carrying forward histories of struggle while celebrating the joy that comes from perseverance.
South Asian Heritage Month was launched at Manchester Museum in 2019. The month runs from the 18th of July to the 17th of August each year where it seeks to commemorate, mark and celebrate South Asian cultures, histories, and communities. Focussed events showcase the rich and proud South Asian heritage that has blended into the British way of life, contributing to the diversity of our nation. Observing South Asian Heritage Month provides us with excellent opportunities to embrace and celebrate the history and identity of British South Asians.
100 Black Women Professors Now (BWPN) is a 12-month programme which aims to propel equity of opportunity for Black women academics, researchers and PhD students and to deliver a step change in progress for the HE sector by working with individuals throughout the academic pipeline as well as institutions, managers and leaders. These are reflections about the programme from 2024 participants.
Of 23,000 UK professors, only 61 are Black women and only recently has this stark statistic gained widespread attention. For Black women, the messy and protracted path to promotion, along with discrimination and misogynoir have been many of our experiences. The 100 Black Women Professors NOW programme (100 BWPN) delivered by the Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN) recognises the need to address fundamental inequities and support Black women as we navigate career progression.
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