Race, Empire and the Edinburgh Medical School conference, University of Edinburgh Event date:  Thursday 18 April to Friday 19 April Time:  09:00 – 17:30 Location:  Research Suite, Centre for Research Collections, 6th Floor, Main Library, University of Edinburgh, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ.   This two-day international conference (online and in-person) brings together historians, heritage professionals and other researchers […]

This post shares information regarding the second community engagement theme, exploring community perspectives on a cultural space.   Aim: To gain resource to provide a dedicated cultural space specifically for the use of communities from racially minoritised backgrounds as an integrated part of a new research centre focusing on different racisms, legacies of slavery and […]

Community Engagement Officer   Samantha Likonde Samantha Likonde is the community engagement officer for the Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG).   Prior to assuming this position, she earned an Honours degree in law in 2022. She has participated in a number of EDI committees at the University of Edinburgh due to her enthusiasm for change, and she […]

Mentors   Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History, specialist in Caribbean history and history of slavery) Diana grew up and near London and did her first degree at Warwick University, followed by a PhD at Yale University, where she studied with Emilia Viotti da Costa, Gilbert Joseph, and Nancy Cott. After a year as a […]

Affected community members   Esther Stanford-Xosei (Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, PARCOE)     Esther has been deeply involved in reparations scholar-activism, within and beyond the UK, for over two decades and therefore brings a lot of practical knowledge, lived experience and recognition of reparations ethics to this role. She is a Motherist, and decolonial Pan-Afrikanist Jurisconsult, Reparationist and […]

Research Assistant Obasanjo Bolarinwa will be analysing University data linked to racially minoritised students and staff     Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa is a young, dynamic global public health and data science expert with extensive experience in developing and managing public health interventions through rigorous research among minority groups. He holds a Master of Science in Global […]

Research fellows   Dr Simon Buck will be looking at the links between the University and African enslavement     Dr Simon Buck is an historian and medical humanities scholar with interests in the US South, histories of medicine and music, and the impacts of slavery-derived wealth on British charities in the eighteenth and nineteenth […]

The Co-Chairs Professor Tommy Curry (Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies)     Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and holds a Personal Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory & Black Male Studies. He is […]

  On the 31st of October from 3:30-6pm the Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG) in collaboration with the Centre for African Studies (CAS), will be hosting a workshop at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. This in-person panel and workshop event will engage with community groups, activists and scholars regarding the UoE’s Anatomical Museum. The museum holds one of the largest and most […]

Professor Tommy Curry  Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and holds a Personal Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory & Black Male Studies. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of […]