Racial inequalities and policy, racial equity/justice and policy, design and policy
I am interested in the struggle for racial justice and the means through which this can be achieved, focusing particularly on the interplay of the politics of race and participatory and deliberative processes. I use new institutionalism as an analytical framework for what facilitates or constrains the design and implementation of racially just policies.
I engage with transformational and emancipatory concepts in social sciences to clarify and theorize about the processes—both intellectual and material—through which political actors (racially minoritised communities, policymakers, service providers and so forth) form, function within, replicate, dissolve, and restructure political worlds. My research places emphasis on deliberative and participatory processes which cultivate spaces for the 'voice-of-colour' to imagine a racially just world and the politics to influence the implementation of racially just policies.
I am also the founding convenor of the Racial Equity in Policy Network, a network for policymakers in the UK interested in addressing racial inequalities. Policymaker is defined in the broadest sense, from those who develop policy to those who implement policy.
I am open to supervising PhD students with similar research interests.
My research interests include:
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New institutionalism in public policy and administration
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Critical race theory in public policy and administration
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Politics of race and anti-racism
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Co-production of knowledge
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Collaborative and urban governance
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Participatory deliberative processes
My most recent research project was with racially minoritised young people in Manchester on the topic of belonging in education.
I am currently working on a book project that brings together critical race theory and democratic participation.
POLI100 - Politics in the Modern World (Politics of race, racism and anti-racism)
PPR.397 - Real world policymaking: theory and practice
PPR.424 - Public Policy
