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 […]

  In this post, you will find some information relating to our first community engagement theme, ‘Restitution and the Anatomical Museum’. Aim: To conduct an in-depth investigation into the work of repatriating the ancestral human remains linked to the histories of colonialism and slavery that are currently being held within the Anatomical Museum and ascertain […]

Overview   This document provides information regarding the role and commitment of Community Anchors within the Decolonised Transformations Project. The inclusion of this role is to reflect the project’s commitment to community engagement and knowledge exchange. Thank you for your consideration.   Purposes of Engagement   Engagement is an ongoing process which follows an equal […]

This podcast was created as a collaboration between the Research and Engagement Working Group that is looking into the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of slavery, colonialism and racial thought and the RaceEd network as part of their ‘Undersong – Race and Conversations Other-Wise’ series. In this second episode, Shaira Vadasaria is in conversation […]

This podcast was created as a collaboration between the Research and Engagement Working Group that is looking into the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of slavery, colonialism and racial thought and the RaceEd network as part of their ‘Undersong – Race and Conversations Other-Wise’ series. In this first episode, Shaira Vadasaria is in conversation […]