This SRHE postgraduate network event is distinctive as all three of the speakers are speaking about their own empirical research based on race, ethnicity and multiculturalism and how data findings affect postgraduate experiences. The speakers are all advocates of the continued promotion of debates that surround race and ethnicities and specifically their application to issues in higher education concerning students. The aim of the event is to provide a forum for debate which concerns many contemporary and relevant issues that relate not only to students, but to staff and everyone involved in higher education. See: Bhopal, K., Maylor, U. (Eds.) (2013) Educational Inequalities: difference and diversity in schools and higher education, London, Routledge; Race, R., Lander, V. (Eds.) (2014) Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education, Houndsmills, Palgrave Macmillan.

Speakers

Professor Uvanney Maylor (Bedfordshire University)

'Losing my cultural identity': The role of multiculturalism in BME PGCE student experiences

Dr. Kalwant Bhopal (Southampton University)

Race, gender and class: student and staff experiences in higher education

 Dr. Richard Race (Roehampton University)

Keynote Biographies

Professor Uvanney Maylor is Director of the Institute for Research in Education at the University of Bedfordshire. She has conducted extensive research about the education and institutional experience of potentially marginalised and discriminated against groups (including staff and students in schools, further and higher education). She has recently co-edited, ‘Educational Inequalities in Schools and Higher Education’ with Kalwant Bhopal. E Mail: Uvanney.Maylor@beds.ac.uk

Dr. Kalwant Bhopal is a Reader in Education at the University of Southampton. She has carried out extensive research into the educational experiences of Black and minoirty ethnic groups. She has also explored the educational inequalities faced by White marginalised groups such as Gypsies and Travellers. She is currently conducting research focussing on the experiences of Black and ethnic minoirty academics who leave the UK to work overseas. E Mail: K.Bhopal@soton.ac.uk

Dr. Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in Education and MA Education Programme Convener in the School of Education at Roehampton University. His current research is on integration and education policy-making which is book contracted and part of the Series, Policy and Practice in the Classroom’ which he co-edits with Palgrave Macmillan. His monograph, Multiculturalism and Education with Bloomsbury will be published as a second edition in 2014. E Mail: r.race@roehampton.ac.uk