Katucha Bento and Shaira Vadasaria – Co-ordinate and host speakers and support RACE.ED events in collaboration with network members and presenters from outwith the University. Support management and organization of RACE.ED calendar of events; one-off events; and co-sponsored activities.
Katucha is a political sociologist focussing on topics around Black diaspora, affective economy, Brazilian institutions,…
Shaira Vadasaria is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology.…
Katucha is a political sociologist focussing on topics around Black diaspora, affective economy, Brazilian institutions, nation, and intersectional oppressions.
Her research and teachings are interdisciplinary, exploring Black Feminism, Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Rhetorical Analysis and Education.
Shaira Vadasaria is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching draws on interdisciplinary thought attentive to race, law and social regulation in the broader context of settler colonial nation building. Methodologically, Shaira’s research is inspired by the quotidian and ambivalent practices through which displaced and dispossessed communities make claims to life and decoloniality amidst social death.
She has published in edited book collections and journals that include: At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour Theorize Terror, eds. Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack; Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture; Critical Studies on Security and most recently Oñati Socio-Legal Studies (see ‘1948 to 1951: The racial politics of humanitarianism and return in Palestine’).
Her current book project tends to the representational lives of return in and to Palestine which she read across law, aesthetics, sensory politics and land-based sovereignty movements.
Radhika Govinda, Sarah Liu and Emily Sena – Connect to and help collaborate with affiliates and allied internal networks including: BAME network, Liberate.ED and EUSA, GENDER.ED, Edinburgh Race Equality Network, Womxn of Color and Gender Minority Network, Race and Inclusivity in Global Network (RIGEN) and UncoverED.
Radhika Govinda’s research and teaching bridge the sociology of gender, international development and South Asian…
Currently a Lecturer in Gender and Politics at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of…
Emily Sena is a neuroscientist, meta-research scientist and Stroke Association funded senior lecturer in the…
Radhika Govinda’s research and teaching bridge the sociology of gender, international development and South Asian studies. Her work examines questions of gender and intersectional politics in women’s movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production.
As a woman of colour academic from the global south who is passionate about teaching and feminism, she has a keen interest in intersectional pedagogy and decolonising feminist classrooms.
Currently a Lecturer in Gender and Politics at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh , Dr Sarah Liu’s research focuses on the cross-national comparison of gender and politics, specifically the ways contexts shape the gender gap in political attitudes and activities.
She has published in leading social science journals and contributes to and appears on national and international media regularly to engage the wider public.
Emily Sena is a neuroscientist, meta-research scientist and Stroke Association funded senior lecturer in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences (CCBS).
She is also co-convenor of the university’s Edinburgh Race Equality Network (EREN), a member of the Race Equality and Anti-Racist (REAR) Sub-committee and highly committed to engendering and facilitating an anti-racist culture across our campus.
Rowena Arshad, Ale Boussalem, Sharon Cowan, Thabani Mutambasere, Mohini Gray, Daryl Green, Marlies Kustatscher, rashné limiki, Richard Oosterhoff, Jingyi Li and Shadaab Rahemtulla – Help support connectivity and inter-disciplinarity by identifying colleagues and activity that RACE.ED may collaborate with across the University.
Rowena’s research and teaching focusses on raising awareness of how racism operates at an institutional,…
Ale (he/him) is a social and cultural geographer interested the intersections of race, sexualities and…
Sharon Cowan is a professor of feminist and queer legal studies at the university of…
Mohini Gray is an honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Immunologist and Reader at the Centre for Inflammation…
Daryl is the Head of Special Collections, which include rare books, photographs, manuscripts, personal papers,…
Marlies Kustatscher’s research focuses on children and young people’s experiences of intersecting inequalities (race, class,…
Jingyi is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Programme Director for MSc Education (All Pathways) in…
Rashné is lecturer of Work and Organisation Studies. academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on…
I am a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the Centre of African…
Richard Oosterhoff is a lecturer of early modern history, with a focus on intellectual and…
Rowena’s research and teaching focusses on raising awareness of how racism operates at an institutional, cultural and individual level.
She also works with policy makers, educators (school, further and higher education) to put in place action and strategies that delivers for racial equality.
Ale (he/him) is a social and cultural geographer interested the intersections of race, sexualities and gender across different spaces and places. His research focus has been on the lives, narratives and geographies of LGBTQ+ people from a Muslim background. The theories he applies to understand the intersections of Islamophobia/racism and homo/bi/transphobia include critical race theory, queer theory, queer of color critique and politics, intersectionality
Sharon Cowan is a professor of feminist and queer legal studies at the university of Edinburgh. She is an LGBTQ advocate for students, and teach criminal law and asylum and refugee law and policy.
She recently completed a literature and case review of the use of sexual history evidence in sexual offences trials in Scotland (for the EHRC). She is the co-convener of the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project @ScottishFemJP. She is currently engaged in a study about the impact of equality laws and policies on trans people; and a project on the way that universities deal with allegations of sexual assault and misconduct on campus.
Mohini Gray is an honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Immunologist and Reader at the Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR). She is passionate about ensuring BAME students reach their full potential whilst having the best possible experience at Edinburgh University.
Together with EUSA she is setting up a BAME student mentoring scheme, which is part of the Edinburgh Diversity and Inclusion Network (EDIN) she helped to develop.
Daryl is the Head of Special Collections, which include rare books, photographs, manuscripts, personal papers, and the University archive.
He leads on academic engagement with the University’s cultural heritage collections and his area of academic work is in the early cultures of the book. He is also lead on the exhibition programming for the University’s Main Library gallery and future online exhibitions.
Marlies Kustatscher’s research focuses on children and young people’s experiences of intersecting inequalities (race, class, gender, ethnicity, age); interdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to activism and social change; and children and young people’s human rights and participation in research, practice and policy-making.
She is using qualitative methods, including participatory action research, ethnographic research and arts-based approaches.
Jingyi is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Programme Director for MSc Education (All Pathways) in the Moray House School of Education. She is teaching, and course organising the Curriculum: Context, Change and Development, and has taught courses relating to education policy, comparative and international education. She also actively work with the ethnic minority community in Scotland to promote heritage languages.
Her research interest lies in curriculum studies, citizenship education and international education policy development. She is currently engaged in a project exploring the experience of BAME children and families in education in Scotland.
Rashné is lecturer of Work and Organisation Studies. academic thinking and writing focuses mainly on the ethics and politics of work in a global context.
In particular, rashné is interested in the role of difference (primarily, race and gender) in the emergence and distribution of new forms of work. More recently, thinking about the eugenicist underpinnings of discourses on technology.
I am a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the Centre of African Studies. My research interests include but are not limited to African diasporas, particularly how they contribute to their countries of origin via non-economic routes such as politics, development (charity), and humanitarianism.
Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, I worked on an ESRC/AHRC-funded project that sought to adopt an interdisciplinary perspective on food security to, firstly, further understand the role played by mobility and migration and, secondly, to better account for the influence of food norms and practices, or food cultures.
I have also done work on displacement and social protection focussing specifically on the humanitarian-development nexus and how we can expand the inclusion of displaced people in social protection programmes or systems. Additionally, I have worked on projects investigating diaspora humanitarianism with a focus on the African diaspora.
I also spent a few years working as a practitioner in the international development sector specifically on governance and civic education.
Richard Oosterhoff is a lecturer of early modern history, with a focus on intellectual and scientific cultures, based in the Department of History.
His work on race comes out of teaching on early modern European efforts between 1400 and 1800 to racialise accounts of human nature using new scientific and geographical frameworks.
Ashlee Christoffersen – Helps connect to early career activity across the university, spanning doctorial and post-doctoral activity and identifying ways RACE.ED can support and collaborate.
Ashlee’s research is concerned with the historic and contemporary operationalisation of the Black feminist theory of…
Ashlee’s research is concerned with the historic and contemporary operationalisation of the Black feminist theory of intersectionality in equality policy and practice: its possibilities, and resistance to it. She also has an interest in intersectional research methodology.
As Research Fellow on the Gender Equalities at Work project she explores UK gender equality legislation, with a focus on its relationship to race equality legislation, and the influence (and silencing) of Black and women of colour theory and activism.
Shaira Vadasaria and Katucha Bento – Lead the development of the 2020-2021 in practice race module and scale up to the large cross-university Understanding Race in Contemporary Society in 2021-2022
Katucha is a political sociologist focussing on topics around Black diaspora, affective economy, Brazilian institutions,…
Shaira Vadasaria is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology.…
Katucha is a political sociologist focussing on topics around Black diaspora, affective economy, Brazilian institutions, nation, and intersectional oppressions.
Her research and teachings are interdisciplinary, exploring Black Feminism, Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Rhetorical Analysis and Education.
Shaira Vadasaria is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching draws on interdisciplinary thought attentive to race, law and social regulation in the broader context of settler colonial nation building. Methodologically, Shaira’s research is inspired by the quotidian and ambivalent practices through which displaced and dispossessed communities make claims to life and decoloniality amidst social death.
She has published in edited book collections and journals that include: At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour Theorize Terror, eds. Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack; Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture; Critical Studies on Security and most recently Oñati Socio-Legal Studies (see ‘1948 to 1951: The racial politics of humanitarianism and return in Palestine’).
Her current book project tends to the representational lives of return in and to Palestine which she read across law, aesthetics, sensory politics and land-based sovereignty movements.
Michaelagh Broadbent and Gordon Coutts – Help maintain and update the web platform, and promote RACE.ED through social media communications channel internally and externally.
Rutendo is the RACE.ED Events and Communications Intern, providing support behind the scenes with events,…
Gordon is Head of Communications and Engagement in the School of Social and Political Science…
Rutendo is the RACE.ED Events and Communications Intern, providing support behind the scenes with events, social media, communications and more.
Gordon is Head of Communications and Engagement in the School of Social and Political Science at The University of Edinburgh.
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