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Jason Arday on racial inequality in higher education
Portrait of a Londoner
English - September 18, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture News News Commentary south-east london community horniman Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Portrait of a Londoner is a South-East London based podcast and in this mini-series we will be talking to people who live in London about racism within the UK education system.
In this episode we speak to Jason Arday who is an assistant professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Durham https://www.dur.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile/?id=18558
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNQbRKDXbg
Jason is also a trustee of the Runnymede Trust the UK’s leading race equality think tank
https://www.runnymedetrust.org/
Jason’s academic work has included the Aiming Higher report written with Professor Claire Alexander from the University of Manchester
https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/Aiming%20Higher.pdf
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/claire.alexander.html
Jason has written for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jason-arday
And also appeared on BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k3gr
Jason talks to us about:
0-15-minutes his research on the experience of BAME academics in the UK15.00 - His role as a trustee of the Runnymede Trust16.00- Working with Professor Claire Alexander to write the Aiming Higher Report24.30 -His childhood growing up in South London28.00 His experience of growing up with Aspergers and global development delay33.00 His hopes for the futureIf you are a new listener to Portrait of a Londoner, we would LOVE to hear from you!
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