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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome to the BAMEed Network newsletter

BAMEed is a grassroots network aimed at ensuring our diverse communities are represented as a substantive part of the education workforce. There are three main parts to our network mission:

  1. Increasing the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people entering and remaining in education careers
  2. Encourage and support those within the profession to progress in their career
  3. Champion change in education structures so that bias does not prevent diverse representation

These three parts feed into our beliefs that are listed on our website here

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Last chance for tickets to the BAMEed Network's conference: owning your professional identity

A handful of tickets are still available for our conference which will be held on Saturday 19th January 2019 at The University of East London at their Stratford campus.

Please do help us to spread the word, and grab yours HERE

The conference theme is 'owning your professional identity'. We have put together a stimulating day of keynote speakers, workshops and practice-sharing sessions to help delegates explore the issues, recognise and understand the myths that need busting and understand how to take action to move us all forwards in our commitment to creating a more equal education sector.

The outline for the day:

9.00 -10.00am Arrival/coffee/tea/registration and networking
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome from the BAMEed network
10.15 - 10.45  Keynote  -  Nick Dennis, Setting the Scene
10.45 - 11.45  Workshop 1
11.45 - 12.00  Break

12.00 - 12.45  Carousels of practice
12.45 - 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 - 13.45  Lyfta - Let the World Come to You
13.45 - 14.45 Workshop 2
14.45 - 15.15 Closing words and call to action


In depth workshop overviews can be found here

Get tickets here  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bameed-owning-your-professional-identity-tickets-50059793189

What's been happening

We haven't been up to much over the festive break aside from preparing for the conference on 19th January! Here's a reminder of what we were doing in the lead up to Christmas...

Conferences
We have scheduled our third regional conference for 19th January 2019 and our third national conference will be held on Saturday 15th June 2019 at the University of Brighton.

If you are interested in putting on a regional BAMEed TeachMeet in your area, do get in touch and we would be delighted to support you with the organisation and planning of the event.

Our new website
If you haven't checked it out already, please do visit our revamped website. In particular, check out our new areas, including:

Speakers
Are you planning an education event? Are you looking for great speakers to inspire your delegates?

1. Take a look at our list of speakers on the speakers page

2. Once you've found speakers whose profiles seem a suitable match for your event, please contact them with the details provided to check their availability, interest, and any speaker fees they may charge. If their contact details aren't listed, please contact us with details of your event as well as the speakers you're interested in and we'll connect you.

3. Once your event has taken place, we'd appreciate you providing an evaluation for the speaker using this form. We will pass this to them for their development and your feedback will help to inform our future work.

Whilst we are keen to provide this page as a way for event organisers to easily access the wealth of BAME speakers available, we do not actively endorse or promote their services. All logistical arrangements and any fees they may charge are for event organisers to discuss with the speakers.

We believe the development of educators as speakers is important and we will be offering a variety of support, coaching, and development opportunities to members of our network that are interested in speaking at education events. If you're already listed on this page and you're approached to speak at an event, please let us know.

If you'd like to appear on this speakers page, please complete the 'speaker profile' form.

CPD & Events - we have begun adding opportunities to the events calendar that we're running, or other events that may be of interest. Click on an event to find out more and book to attend. We'd love to hear if you attend any of the events or there are ones you'd recommend we feature. Just get in touch here

Get involved - featuring a link to sign up to our mailing list which you are invited to share far and wide, information on becoming a BAMEed Network speaker at events and our coaching programme - see more on these below!

Get involved

Helping organisations get the balance right for their events
An important part of our work is about supporting events to ensure there are diverse viewpoints on their list of speakers. We do this by reaching out and offering help. We are clear that the offer is of help, and the tone is never of 'calling out and shaming' organisations for their narrow choice of speakers. You can help us by signposting people to our high quality speaker options to meet their needs here 


Job opportunities
Teacher or researcher looking for a change of direction? Want to help make access to uni fairer? Join the team at the @BrilliantClub. To find out more click here

Fellowship opportunity
The AfOx Visiting Fellows Program is designed to enhance academic mobility and network building. The program supports African scholars and researchers working in any discipline to spend periods of flexible time in Oxford, for example as sabbatical leave for utilising library or other university facilities or undertaking or planning collaborative research with Oxford based colleagues. Find out more and apply here


Events

Poetry and Shaah
Enter a space for expression and healing at an intimate poetry night run by artists of colour, featuring Rakaya Fetuga and Gabriel Akamo. Poetry night Poetry and Shaah, which celebrated its second birthday in September 2018, is kicking off the National Poetry Library’s Special Edition 2019 series with two poetry powerhouses.
Fetuga, a poet of Ghanaian and Nigerian heritage, is the winner of the Word Poetry Prize 2017 and the Roundhouse Poetry Slam in 2018. She has facilitated workshops in London, Warwick and Newcastle. Akamo is a Nigerian-British poet, actor, facilitator, and creative producer based in London. He has been commission by institutions such as St Paul’s Cathedral and the Royal Academy of Arts. He is a Barbican Young Poet, member of the National Theatre, and a former Roundhouse resident artist (2016 – 2017) with poetry collective Spit the Atom.
Wednesday 9th January, National Poetry Library, Level 5, Blue side, Royal Festival Hall
Free but ticketed
Find out more here

Friday Tonic: Native Sun
Sweet melodies fuse head-bouncing hip-hop beats, bilingual lyrics and catchy hooks at a free performance by the London-based Afro-soul duo. Native Sun is made up of bilingual rapper Mohammed Yahya, born in Mozambique, and singer-songwriter Sarina Leah, born in London with Caribbean roots. The pair combine hip-hop and African rhythms to create uplifting music. Since joining forces in 2010, the pair have spread their message of universal peace, equality, social justice and environmental change in performances around the world.
Friday 11th January, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Free
Find out more here 

Equitable Leadership Series Masterclass - Black Female Leader
The Equitable Leadership Series prepares leaders to lead effectively across social and cultural boundaries. Tackling the challenging issues honestly and transparently, leaders are supported to lead and engage authentically to achieve parity in the workplace, classroom and society.
Friday 11th January, Mac, Queen's ride, Birmingham
Find out more here

Northern Noir - a night of femininity, masculinity and Blackness
Northern Noir is a theatrical show exploring Femininity, Masculinity and Blackness through spoken word, dance, film and live music. Through five acts Northern Noir challenges societal conditioning, connects with one’s history and unpacks the status quo. It gives the audience an opportunity to dive into a world of equality and liberation within all genders, colour, sexual orientation, ability and age.
Sunday 20th January, Seven Arts, Leeds, LS7 3PD
Find out more
here

Voice Circles: What are microaggressions and how do we recognise them?
Do you know what microagressions are? And how to recognise them? Most of us don't! Microaggressions are statements, actions or incidents regarded as instances of indirect, subtle or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalised group such as a racial or ethnic minority. 
Tuesday 22nd January, Dentons LLP, London EC4M 7RA
Find out more here


Black & Vegan: Decolonising the Cruelty Free
We Will Be Proud presents a talk and workshop about the issues surrounding being Black and vegan, from the dominance of discourse by white figureheads, to the history of vegetarian and Vegan (ital) food in the Caribbean community through Rastafarian and Hindu religion and culture, to the fact that people of African descent are more likely to be lactose intolerant. There will be vegan food at the end of the talk provided by a local Black owned caterer.
Please note people of all backgrounds are welcome, however this will be predominantly a Black led discussion and attendees are asked to respect this.

Thursday 24th January, Nottingham Writers' Studio
Find out more here


Focus Group: Mental well-being among Black and Mixed race communities 
People of African and Caribbean descent suffer disproportionately when it comes to mental health and wellbeing. This focus group forms part of a PhD study which looks to explore some of the themes that have emerged from the research to date.
Saturday 26th January, University of East London
Find out more here

Articles, news, blogs and items of interest

Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias
To mark the anniversary of the death of A. Sivanandan, the Institute of Race Relations examines how useful his ideas are for unravelling the recent turn in the UK to the concept of unconscious bias. Read more here 

What Britons get wrong about immigration – and why politicians need to tell them the truth
Immigration led the headlines again over the holiday season. Around 100 migrants were found on beaches or rescued from boats in the English Channel, sparking talk of a “crisis” and “major incident” and leading the home secretary, Sajid Javid, to cut short his Christmas break to chair a meeting with senior officials at the Border Agency and National Crime Agency. Read more here 

A reader’s first memory of racism: ‘because you’re Black’
Race/Related is a newsletter focused on identity and culture, with provocative stories from around The  New York Times. Read more here  

Brexit, Empire, and Decolonization
The Leave victory has been seen as an expression of frustration by those who believed themselves to have been betrayed by a metropolitan elite. The problem was that ‘newcomers’ had been given equal status as citizens and this had undermined the conditions of those presented as ‘insiders’. Belonging to the history of the nation was presented as necessary to be a legitimate agent within politics and a legitimate object of policy initiatives in the present. This failure to recognise Britain’s imperial past limits the population that gets to be considered as ‘inside’ the polity historically and thus to have legitimate claims to determine it in the present. Read more here

Decolonise, not diversify
The concept of diversity only exists if there is an assumed neutral point from which ‘others’ are ‘diverse.’ Putting aside for now the straight, male, middle-classness of that ‘neutral’ space, its dominant aspect is whiteness. Constructed by a white establishment, the idea of ‘diversity’ is neo-liberal speak. It is the new corporatised version of multiculturalism. It is about management, efficiency, box-ticking. Read more here  

How we built a tool that detects the strength of Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter
Billions of posts are sent on social media every day, and only a very small number of them contain any sort of hate. So a group of researchers set about creating a classification tool using machine learning which automatically detects whether or not tweets contain Islamophobia. Read more here 

Revealing the colour of madness
Ph.D student Rianna Walcott was giving a talk on mental health to the creative industries in Edinburgh, when a woman approached her with an idea for a project around the mental health issues in the Black, Asian and ethnic minorities. There was only one problem: the woman was white: “You’re going to need a black or brown woman to go ahead with this project and I think I know the one for you,” said Walcott, who was  interested in the idea. She was thinking of her school friend Dr Samara Linton, a Jamaican-born medical doctor and a University of Cambridge and University College London graduate. Read more here 

How to Talk to People Who Hate You
What Dylan Marron has learned from talking to his online haters. Read more here

'Wow, I'm racist': In time of viral encounters, 'white spaces' are used to confront biases
"I used to think I was this perfect little white person in a bubble that didn't do anything bad to Black people, and so I was OK." Read more here 

A 100-year-old holocaust survivor on how books save lives
It is often said that books save lives. Most of the time, however heartfelt the sentiment, it is figurative. Every once in an improbable while, it approximates the literal. But only on the rarest of occasions, in the most extreme of circumstances, do books become lifelines in the realest sense. Read more here 

How does your race affect your pay cheque?
Inequality in the UK has long been traceable by considering pay. The glass ceiling for female workers is a well-known and regularly protested discrepancy; the constant turbulence between the high earners and the working poor is regularly reported. However, the unjust valuation of Black and minority ethnic (BAME) workers is only beginning to gain public awareness. The reason for the stark gap between white and non-white employees is embedded in every aspect of our system. From education to employment, BAME citizens are at a disadvantage. Read more here


Listen: The Ballads of Emmett Till
Maria Margaronis draws on archive from Washington University St Louis, home to the interviews for the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize & rare recordings of the Till family conducted by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp. She travels through landscape & memory across Mississippi & Chicago, listening to historians, poets, writers & Till family members as she grapples with the many layers of meaning & the many, many ways Emmett's story has been told & retold. These are the Ballads of Emmett Till. Listen here 

Listen: Thinking Allowed on White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity
Racial ambiguity in America: Lisa Kingstone, Senior Teaching Fellow in Race and Identity at Kings College, London, asks what happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of Black and white have started to fade. She’s joined by the writer, Bidisha. Also, what is meant by white privilege? Kalwant Bhopal, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, discusses her new study. Listen here

Watch: 10 great Black British films
The representation of Black British life has been sorely underrepresented in our national cinema, but there have been hints of a resurgence in recent years. Here is a great list of ten great Black British films. To find out more click here 

Pass it on

If you know anyone who would be interested in the BAMEed Network, please pass this newsletter on, direct them to our website and ask them to get involved. We invite people of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and nationalities to join us in our work.

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