Professors NiCole Buchanan & Keon West - Race, Inequality and the University: British and American Perspectives
ILAS Global Challenge lecture series
The latest in a series of Global Challenge lectures from the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences and part of Keele's Race Equality Lecture series.
Title
Race, Inequality and the University: British and American Perspectives
Abstract
Scholars in institutions of higher education face unprecedented challenges to their academic freedom and scholarly autonomy. These burdens, while experienced broadly, may be most keenly felt by those who experience marginalization in academic spaces (e.g., faculty of color, first generation, or queer faculty) and may be most pronounced when these scholars study topics related to their marginalized identities. In this talk, we examine mechanisms that may explain these disparities and how they manifest in both the United States and the United Kingdom. We identify structural and procedural barriers that inhibit academia from achieving diversity goals and reaching its full potential for scholarly innovation (e.g., tokenism, epistemic exclusion, identity-based and scholarly biases). We review the ways in which these challenges reflect and reify racism in academia and discuss strategies to foster greater equity and inclusion in higher education and academic research.
Biography - Professor NiCole Buchanan
NiCole T. Buchanan, Ph.D., Professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Buchanan researches the interplay of race, gender and victimization and how they impact the nature of harassment, its impact, and organizational best practices. She also studies faculty of color and ways in which their research is marginalized (i.e., epistemic exclusion). She has been highlighted in hundreds of media outlets, is a featured speaker including TEDx and National Public Radio (NPR) and provides bias and diversity-related training and consultation (e.g., medical professionals, faculty, clinicians, human resource managers, and police departments). Dr. Buchanan is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, four divisions of the American Psychological Association (Society of Clinical Psychology, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and Society for the Psychology of Women), and has received national and international awards for her research, teaching, and professional service.
Biography - Professor Keon West
Keon West is a Professor of Social Psychology, the Director of Equalab, the President-Elect of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (founded 1936), and an editorial board member for the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Keon has received numerous international awards for his research, teaching, media engagement, and social activism. He has also appeared over 100 times as a psychological expert and presenter in a variety of international media including the BBC World Service, Radio 4, Channel 4 and the Guardian. He is especially well known for his research on prejudice, sexual orientation, and sexual health.
This lecture will only be available online via Microsoft Teams. Please register (by no later than 5.00pm on the day of the lecture) and joining instructions with further information will follow ahead of the lecture.
This lecture is free and all are welcome to attend.
- Event date
- Event Time
- 6:00PM
- Location
- Online only via MS Teams
- Organiser
- Steve Kilner
- Contact email
- ilas@keele.ac.uk
- Contact telephone
- 01782 7 34449