Reimagining Racial Justice Research

Our early career network meetings aim to create space for early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity to share experiences and insights, and to create connections.

In this meeting we will host an interactive workshop that recognises the emotional labour involved in researching racial injustice, particularly in the current social and political climate, and offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with positive possibilities.

In small groups participants will discuss their research topics and identify a central story or narrative from their work that they want to disrupt. They will identify an imagined ‘positive future’ where their research problem no longer exists. They will explore what changed socially to enable this positive future to emerge, who led the transformation, what institutions disappeared or transformed, and what was rebuilt in their place. Using creative mediums such as collage, LEGO, mind-mapping / sketching, or AI image generation, each participant will document the change that took place accompanied by a future news headline, or a scene from everyday life that sums up their re-imagined positive future.

The workshop ends with a networking lunch.

You may want to stay with us for The Big Payback: Reparations and how money shapes our morality and our views on racial justice from 3-4.45pm and/or for Dan Hicks: Monuments Will Fall 6-8pm. Please book tickets for these events separately if you would like to attend.

If you register and then find out that you cannot come, please, please, please cancel your place as early as possible (it helps if you can also email us if it's short notice before the event). Like most event organisers we often find that a lot of people register and don't attend. We understand that sometimes this can't be helped. But cancelling your place in good time often means we can let somebody else attend in your place.

All food will be vegetarian or vegan. If you have other dietary requirements please let us know when you register. We might not be able to accommodate these after we finalise the catering order - this is usually 10 working days before the event. Please make sure you email us directly if you are registering after this date.

We will encourage all attendees to help themselves to any food left after lunch. Feel free to bring a tupperware!

If needed, we can reimburse UK travel expenses (standard class public transport)and overnight accommodation (up to £100) to allow you to attend.

Expenses will be reimbursed after the event. We will send you a claim form to fill and you will need to keep all tickets and receipts.

See the University of Manchester Maps and Travel pages for directions to University Place.

See the Accessable page for University Place for more details. If you would like to make us aware of any accessibility needs to help you make the most of the event, please email [email protected] before 27 April 2026.

Lunch is provided in a different room, because of limited availability of rooms that can have catering delivered. There is a step-free route between the rooms.

Please contact [email protected] if you have questions about this event.

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