Race and Assessment in Higher Education: From Conceptualising Barriers to Making Measurable Change (CRRE Seminar)

Dr Paul Campbell, Associate Professor in the Sociology of Race and Inclusion, University of Leicester 

In the process of rearching the impact of race and ethnicity on education attainment, Paul Campbell realised that a number of barriers, from the design of assessments to their marking, all contributed to the trauma undergraduates of colour experience.

This realisation translated into a long-term research programme, from conceptualising the barriers to making practical changes to assessment practices. In this seminar, Paul recounts the steps taken and introduces the assessment toolkit that is now in use across a number of universities. And the accompanying book Race and Assessment in Higher Education.

This will be followed by a Q&A with Paul, chaired by Steve Raven and Dr Saba Hussain, that explores the lived experiences of racial inequity in HE assessment, why they happen, what module teachers can do to mitigate them, and the successes and limits of enacting change from the classroom up. Concluding with a reflective discussion on where anti-racism praxis is in the HE academy in 2025?

Biographies

Paul Campbell is an award winning academic and Associate Professor in the Sociology of race and inclusion at the University of Leicester and also Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales. His first monograph won the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Prize in 2017 and he has published widely in the areas of race, inclusion and Higher Education and on race and sport. He is co-convenor of the Evaluating Teaching in Higher Education Collective, which consists of universities such as Cambridge, and Oxford and is an Academic Advisor for the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO). Paul supports a number of UK research and teaching focused universities in addressing racial in equalities in their curricular and in their assessment processes. These include the University of Manchester, LSE and Birmingham City University. Paul is a sector leader in developing and evaluating interventions for making HE curricula and assessment racially inclusive and he has published a number of ground-breaking reports on how to empirically move from race inclusion theory to practice.

• This event is free and open to the public, staff and students.
• This is a hybrid event. Registration is essential to let us know if you are attending in person or online, to receive the link to ZOOM. 
• Please note, this seminar is not being recorded.