Race Update 5 – Grade Predictions and Assessment during Covid-19

by | 06 Apr 2020 | Race Update

Following the government decision to cancel summer examinations, this year’s GCSE and A-Level grades will be predicted by teachers and normalised by a nationally applied formula. This blog outlines the debates prompted by this decision which focus around fears of...

Race Update 4 – EDI concerns during Covid-19

by | 20 Mar 2020 | Race Update

No one has answers to the ongoing Covid-19 situation but this blog suggests some questions that we might ask ourselves and invites your feedback too re History in Higher Education. Are there ways to identify, address and mitigate any unintended negative effects of...

Race Update 3 – Advance HE Positive Action Checklist

by | 18 Feb 2020 | Race Update

Advance HE (formally Equality Challenge Unit) published an End of project report in January 2020. The report reflects on a 2016-2018, Advance HE project that invited institutions in England, Wales or Northern Ireland to explore creative approaches to tackling...

Race Update 2 – Higher Education Race Action Group

by | 05 Feb 2020 | Race Update

This ‘Race Update’ introduces resources that have been circulated by the Higher Education Race Action Group (HERAG) and other bodies that could be used in a range of settings such as staff and student induction, training sessions delivered in schools or teaching....

Black British History: A New IHR Seminar Series

by | 20 Jan 2020 | Race Update

Join us for the first IHR Black British History Seminar on Thursday 23rd January at LSBU. The series: ‘Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates’ encompasses Black British History in all its forms. It takes research from those within and beyond the...

Race Update 1 – Highlights from 2019 Reports

by | 16 Jan 2020 | Race Update

Welcome to the first post of the new RHS Race Update blog series! In this new series, Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Past & Present Fellow for the Royal Historical Society’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History initiative will post on subjects related to race, ethnicity...