Ethnicity and 'Race'

CHE’s equality and diversity focus covers all protected characteristics, including ethnicity and 'race'. We are committed to ensuring that staff and students from all ethnic and racial backgrounds feel welcome and supported.

Our staff and students come from a diverse range of backgrounds, and our international community is at the heart of our success. Our research benefits from the experiences of staff, students, visitors and collaborators from different countries and backgrounds.

University resources and networks

The University’s Staff Race Equality Forum provides opportunities for peer networking, support and development amongst black, asian and minority ethnic staff and the promotion of University values around inclusiveness.

For more information, visit the Staff Race Equality Forum website or email equality@york.ac.uk. Support for students is available from the Student Hub and YUSU (including YUSU’s BAME Officers).

The University has gathered together information and resources to help all of us better understand what it is like to experience racism, how to support those who experience racism and what we can do to combat it. See Let’s talk about race and racism for more details.

University of York Library and Archives

The Library and Archives are committed to ensuring they are representative of the diversity of voices at the University and in our wider community. Their Your Library, Your Voice platform includes a growing range of reading lists on equality and diversity themes. One of these focuses on the Black Lives Matter movement, and related issues of racism and decolonising education.

Read, Watch and Listen - Let’s Educate Ourselves

From books and blogs to podcasts and films (and beyond), there is an abundance of informative and powerful materials to educate ourselves about the history of race and racism, and to listen to the views and experiences of those from minority backgrounds.

The University of Leeds and the Department of Chemistry at York previously co-hosted Racism in Science and Academia, a Q&A with Angela Saini. Following this Equality and Diversity Beacon Event, a number of resources were flagged by Angela and the E&D teams at Leeds and York:

Sway by Pragya Agarwal
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt

Work by Angela Saini:

SUPERIOR The Return of Race Science
INFERIOR: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
New Scientist: Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?
The Lancet: Why we need to take care over COVID-19 and race

Twitter accounts you may be interested to follow:

Find out more about Angela Saini and her work via her website, and also take a look at the resources highlighted by the University at Let's Educate Ourselves and the Library’s Black Lives Matter reading list.

External Resources

Critical Race Theory

Intersectionality & Intersectional Feminism

York Racial Equality Network

YUMI: Intercultural York

York Travellers Trust

Stop Hate UK

Runnymede Trust

BAME and mental health

Black History Month

Black British Academics