Advocating for race equity

By 2022-01-14T08:15:00

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How students at the University of Sussex are decolonising their own science education

Demonstrating how students can play a key role in advocating for change at their higher education institutions, biochemistry PhD student Daniel Akinbosede helped to establish the University of Sussex’s Race Equity Advocates programme. This programme has helped to address the awarding gap, redress the imbalance in recruitment to paid summer research projects and investigate curriculum content. This article describes the programme’s work, for example in the school of life sciences, and gives tips for those wishing to decolonise their science teaching.

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