Tackling racialising award gaps in UK Higher Education

This event is being delivered by the UK Higher Education Award Gap Group. This is a collective of academics who share a common commitment to eliminating award gaps. We believe that through our shared endeavours we can make greater progress in the elimination of differential outcomes. Our aim is to work in partnership with students, academics, and professional service teams across the sector to ensure equality of opportunity for all students and the elimination of differential outcomes within our Faculties and Schools.

We invite education parctictioners from across the sector to join us. The event supports the launch of a new award gap repository, generously funded by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). The repository has been developed to share resources and actions associated with closing racialised award gaps prevalent in UK Higher Education institutions. This resource aims to provide HE practitioners the opportunity to replicate and develop research, support mechanisms, and interventions in their own institutional contexts, minimising duplication, and progress our commitment to eliminating racialised gaps.

See how you can contribute and visit the repository here: https://heawardgap.org.uk

The agenda and speakers are as follows and attendees can join in-person or online.

Date: January 17th 2023

Location: Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, Lecture theatre G27 and Online

09:30 Arrival, registration and refreshments

10:00 Welcome: Freya Ernsting and Sami Safadi

10:10 Keynote speaker: Maisha Islam (University of Winchester)

11:00 Panel discussions: Chair Dr Olatunde Durowoju (LJMU)

Panel members: Pradeep Passi (Salford University), Donna Jones (Manchester Metropolitan University).

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Speaker series:

Dr Theresa Nicholson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Dr Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester)

14:15 Break

14:30 Keynote speaker: Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green (Manchester Metropolitan University)

15:15 Close: Freya Ernsting and Sami Safadi

We look forward to seeing you at the event,

UK HE Award Gap Team.

Host or Publisher UK Higher Education Awards Gap Group (UKHEAGG)