Creating Black-centred Research for the 21st Century

Centre for Black Studies - University of Nottingham

As part of the University of Nottingham's Diversity Festival, join Black Studies researchers to discuss the future of the field.

Join members of the University of Nottingham&#x27;s Black Studies programme for a panel discussion of the key issues and methodologies evolving within contemporary Black Studies. Chaired by Dr Hannah Robbins, the event will ask what Black-centred research means, who it is for, and why we must look forwards to make new critical frameworks and communities to serve our research. Speakers: Maxwell Ayamba is a PhD research student in Black Studies, Department of American &amp; Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham. He is an environmental journalist, former Associate Lecturer/Research Associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Maxwell is the founder and co-ordinator of the Sheffield Environmental Movement (SEM) working to promote access to and participation in the natural environment for people from Black &amp; Ethnic Minority Communities. He Co- founded the 100 Black Men Walk for Health Group in 2004 which inspired production of the national play, Black Men Walking, by Eclipse and Royal Theatre Production in 2018/19. Maxwell was the first Black person to be a Board Member of the Ramblers Association and has also served on various Boards including Board Member of the Imperial College’ Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) Explore Nature project. He has also published research papers, conference abstracts and articles in relation to BME communities and the environment.Niquita Pilgrim is a Mental health practitioner, PhD scholar and Director of the grassroots community organisation The Cultural Connection, which uses lived theory, academia and professional experience to co-produce and deliver therapeutic interventions for racial-ised, marginalised, and socially excluded communities with insufficient access to health and social care. At the intersection of psychology, psychiatry, sociology and cultural studies, Niquita’s research centres ethnonational identification and belonging to challenge Eurocentric assumptions regarding the mental health experiences of African Caribbean individuals.Lisa Robinson is a Black Studies student at the University of Nottingham funded through Midlands4Cities. Her research focuses on centres of Black activism and community organising in Nottingham. Using auto-ethnography, ethnography and oral history, she arrives at this work as an activist and community organiser. Robinson is the founding director of Bright Ideas Nottingham, a pioneering social enterprise working with a multi-disciplinary team that uses cultural brokerage for community-led and academically driven work. She has worked with BLMUK and the University of Sussex to co-create the UK’s first scholar-activism conference ‘Scholar Activism in the 21st Century’ (2018) inspired by October Dialogues, Black Lives Matter – Europe’s first #BlackLivesMatter conference organised by Bright Ideas Nottingham, The Monitoring Group and UoN (2016).

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