Diversifying and Decolonising the University

About Diversifying and Decolonising the University

This is a podcast from the University of Hertfordshire's 'Diversifying and Decolonising the University' group. Each episode will explore some element of diversification within higher education contexts, featuring interviews and conversations between staff and students within and beyond Hertfordshire.

Publisher

Chris Lloyd

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Oct 2022

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Ep. 32: Women of Colour Academics in STEM (with Abimbola Abodunrin)

   Sara Downton talks to Abimbola Abodunrin about his research into the experiences of women of colour academics in STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Maths), as well as marginalised knowledges, and decolonial methodologies. NOTES: Abimbola Abodunrin is a post-doctoral researcher in education with a strong grounding in the sociology of education and a growing track record in qualitative research, teaching, and scholarly engagements. His PhD thesis at the University of Glasgow explored the underrepresentation of women academics of colour in British STEM academia, as a way of contributing to wider efforts to decolonise the academy. Kolar, K., Ahmed, F. & Chan, L., (2015). Timeline Mapping in Qualitative Interviews: a Study of Resilience with Marginalised Groups. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 14(3), pp. 13 – 32. Olmo-Extremera, M., Fernández-Terol, L., & Amber Montes, D. (2024). Visual tools for supporting interviews in qualitative research: new approaches. Qualitative Research Journal, 24(3), 283-298. Bravington, A., & King, N. (2019). Putting graphic elicitation into practice: Tools and typologies for the use of participant-led diagrams in qualitative research interviews. Qualitative Research, 19(5), 506-523. Baú, V. (2024). Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys. Qualitative Research, 24(5), 1302-1311. Ku, E. K. (2025). Timelines: visualizing time in narrative research. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(2), 100215. * Please leave us feedback about the show via this link [https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ur7mk6rEMUevXdc1sJfq2-MtVOsMawJDpBA3aJ944dVUMTVCTDhHWjdMRDVPN0ZFVUxVNVVVRVNVMC4u]. Visit our website for more resources [https://diversifyingherts.wordpress.com/] and follow us on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/ddtupodcast.bsky.social]! Email us with thoughts and feedback: ddtu@herts.ac.uk Produced by Chris Lloyd, Catarina Carvalho, and Sara Downton. Music by Rayen © Hear more via Spotify [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/-8rjCKYJWu4gg1YH2PhmE?domain=open.spotify.com] or Instagram [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/5m66CLYKXuQxx3gu5025q?domain=instagram.com]. Edited by Chris Lloyd. This show is in part made possible by an Impact Accelerator Award from the University of Hertfordshire and the Economic and Social Research Council.

2. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Ep. 31: 'Whose Knowledge?' Education and International Development in Islamic West Africa (with Anneke Newman)

   In this episode, we listen to Siobhan Bygate talk to Anneke Newman about decolonising education and international development in Islamic West Africa. EPISODE NOTES: Anneke Newman [https://research.ugent.be/web/person/anneke-newman-0/en] has received an interdisciplinary academic training including an BA in Human Sciences (Oxford), a Masters in Gender and Development (Institute of Development Studies), and a Masters in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (University of Sussex) before earning her doctorate at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex in 2016. Before joining Ghent University as a FWO-funded senior postdoctoral fellow in 2022, she worked as a Teaching Fellow at Sussex and a FNRS-funded postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Newman's current research is a decolonial analysis of knowledge production and policy-making related to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage. * Anneke Newman, Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa: Secular Erasure, School Preference and Social Inequality [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003172475/decolonising-education-islamic-west-africa-anneke-newman] * Please leave us feedback about the show via this link [https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ur7mk6rEMUevXdc1sJfq2-MtVOsMawJDpBA3aJ944dVUMTVCTDhHWjdMRDVPN0ZFVUxVNVVVRVNVMC4u]. Visit our website for more resources [https://diversifyingherts.wordpress.com/] and follow us on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/ddtupodcast.bsky.social]! Email us with thoughts and feedback: ddtu@herts.ac.uk Produced by Chris Lloyd, Catarina Carvalho, and Sara de Sousa. Music by Rayen © Hear more via Spotify [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/-8rjCKYJWu4gg1YH2PhmE?domain=open.spotify.com] or Instagram [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/5m66CLYKXuQxx3gu5025q?domain=instagram.com]. Edited by Chris Lloyd. This show is in part made possible by an Impact Accelerator Award from the University of Hertfordshire and the Economic and Social Research Council.

3. 

   30 Apr 2026

   Ep. 30: Decolonising Maths (with Ric Crossman)

   In this episode, Catarina Carvalho talks to Ric Crossman about decolonising mathematics. They discuss mathematics, the awarding gap, statistics, assessment and much more. EPISODE NOTES: Ric Crossman [https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/richard-j-crossman/] is an Associate Professor (Education Track) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Durham. When not working on decolonisation, he's most likely teaching statistics. * Decolonising maths at Durham [https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/mathematical-sciences/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/decolonisation/] * Article 1 [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00240-9]and article 2 [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00223-w] from Nature magazine * Wendy Castillo and Kamden K. Strunk, How to QuantCrit: Applying Critical Race Theory to Quantitative Data in Education [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003429968/quantcrit-wendy-castillo-kamden-strunk] * Please leave us feedback about the show via this link [https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ur7mk6rEMUevXdc1sJfq2-MtVOsMawJDpBA3aJ944dVUMTVCTDhHWjdMRDVPN0ZFVUxVNVVVRVNVMC4u]. Visit our website for more resources [https://diversifyingherts.wordpress.com/] and follow us on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/ddtupodcast.bsky.social]! Email us with thoughts and feedback: ddtu@herts.ac.uk Produced by Chris Lloyd, Catarina Carvalho, and Sara de Sousa. Music by Rayen © Hear more via Spotify [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/-8rjCKYJWu4gg1YH2PhmE?domain=open.spotify.com] or Instagram [https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/5m66CLYKXuQxx3gu5025q?domain=instagram.com]. Edited by Allysa Versoza [https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lc9wCpRJOcoGVxPHPfyCGwA1N?domain=linkedin.com] and Chris Lloyd. This show is in part made possible by an Impact Accelerator Award from the University of Hertfordshire and the Economic and Social Research Council.

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