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Edinburgh Race Equality Network

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Black internships: thinking beyond the opportunity and encountering the reality

I read with keen interest a recent UoE EREN blog post on the topic of black internship programs. I am a black academic. I was drawn to the post because I have a personal experience as a parent of two young black persons who applied to undertake a paid internship initiative for black undergraduates and […]

26th February 2021 0

Black internship programs – I’m not convinced we’re getting them right!

In the wake of the posting of black squares on social media, institutions and academic stakeholders were again rightly criticised for virtue signalling. As a black academic who has been in this “business” for almost 20 years, I have been involved in many conversations with colleagues about how terrible it is we have so little […]

5th February 2021 1

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