Members of the REWG
The Co-Chairs
Professor Tommy Curry (Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies)
Dr Nicola Frith (Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies and specialist in slavery studies and reparatory justice)
Research fellows
Simon Buck will be looking at the links between the University and African enslavement
Yarong Xie will be investigating contemporary legacies of institutional racism
Dr Ian Stewart will be looking at the links between the University and colonialism
Research Assistant
Obasanjo Bolarinwa will be analysing University data linked to racially minoritised students and staff
Community Engagement Officer
Samantha Likonde will be heading up the community engagement work
Affected community members
Esther Stanford-Xosei (Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, PARCOE)
Zaki El-Salahi (Youth, Community & Family worker from Edinburgh and East Oxford, and lead volunteer on Edinburgh’s Sudanese Community Partnership)
Mentors
Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History, specialist in Caribbean history and history of slavery)
Daryl Green (Head of Heritage Collections)
