Black Identity in Education

 A series of talks followed by a discussion about black identity in education.  Speakers include:

• Chris Barnett – a PhD student in the Department of Education currently researching positive black role models in schools
• Dr Keon West – a Jamaican social psychologist at the University of Leeds researching intergroup relation
• Richard Borowski – Co-ordinator of the Leeds Schools Africa Project at the Centre for African Studies, University of Leeds (www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/lucas/schools-africa-project/)
• Felix Olakulehin - a PhD student in the Department of Education (Leeds) and a participant in the Leeds Schools Africa Project
• Rebekah Phiri, Co-Chair of the University of York African Caribbean Society

Plus representatives from YUSU race equality.

This is one of a series of events to mark Black History Month.