Members of the REWG
The Co-Chairs
Dr Nicola Frith (Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies and specialist in slavery studies and reparatory justice)
Professor Tommy Curry (Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies)
Research fellows
Dr Ian Stewart will be looking at the links between the University and colonialism
Dr Simon Buck will be looking at the links between the University and African enslavement
Dr Yarong Xie will be investigating contemporary legacies of institutional racism
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
Community Consultants
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)
Silence Chihuri (Founder and CEO of Fair Justice System for Scotland (FJSS) Group)
Community Anchors
Ebo Anyebe (Co-President of the African Caribbean Medical Society Edinburgh)
Abigail Ocansey (Founder of the The Diaspora Project)
Maryam Yusuf (BAME Liberation officer 2022-23, 2024-25)
Kobina Amokwandoh (INOSAAR-RepAfrika, Pan-Afrikan Reparations Internationalist Standing Conference, PARISC and Planet Repairs Action Learning Educational Revolution, PRALER)
Trishna Singh (Founder and Director of Sikh Sanjog)
Dr Nini Kerr (Senior Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences)
Dr Omolabake Fakunle (Chancellor’s Fellow, and Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the Moray House School of Education and Sport)
Professor Roger Jeffrey (Professorial Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science, and previous Associate Director of the Edinburgh India Institute)
Mentors
Daryl Green (Head of Heritage Collections)
Professor Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History, specialist in Caribbean history and history of slavery)
Professor Nasar Meer (Professor of Social and Political Science at the University of Glasgow,
formerly Director of RaceED, UoE)
