Our Research
Law and policy have been central in addressing intersectional social exclusion in universities within the partner countries. However, continuing institutional marginalization and lack of progression of BIPOC faculty and students show their failure in addressing intersectional institutional racism, Indigenous rights claims, and decolonization in universities.
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization (EDID) policies have not ensured the demise of intersectional institutional racism in terms of substantive equality of access, experience, and outcome nor enabled decolonization and knowledge reparation. They also do not adequately address the impact of institutional culture on faculty and student experience.
Country-specific issues will inform discrete research projects investigating intersectional institutional racism through a shared Black feminist decolonial methodology.
The comparative and collaborative approach to research on intersectional institutional racism in universities through discrete national research undertakings will enable transnational learning between the sites in terms of policy and practice.
These three key questions guide our research:
How do university structures, policies, practices, knowledge systems, and affective economies exclude and marginalize the education and research concerns of BIPOC faculty and students?
How can we draw on BIPOC faculty and student experiences and activism to transform curriculum, pedagogy, recruitment, retention, progression, and institutional culture?
How can we build decolonial anti-racist classrooms and research ecosystems within a context of professional autonomy, disciplinary inertia, and intersectional institutional racism?