About the Speaker

Dr Gurnam Singh is an activist researcher, writer, educator, columnist and broadcast journalist. His work is dedicated to uncovering and disrupting systems and mechanisms of power and oppression, especially through harnessing the transformative capacity of critical educational pedagogies. Currently, he is an Hon Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Fellow in Race and Education at the University of Arts, London. He is also a presenter on the Punjab Broadcasting Channel (PBC) and a columnist for the online magazine, Asia Samachar.

In 2005 he completed a PhD at the University of Warwick focussing on anti-racist social work. In 2009 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) for his work on critical pedagogy and higher education, and in 2018 was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). He has published 4 books, over 40 peer review papers/chapters/review articles and 200 keynote conference papers on a wide range of issues, including, race, racism, anti-racism, diversity, decolonisation, ethics, higher education and social work. Currently, his work focuses on the decolonisation of higher education, with a particular focus on the opportunities and dangers associated with the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Recent social work related publications:

Singh, G. (2023) Decolonisation, whiteness, and anti-racist social work. In The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work (pp. 343-357). Routledge.
Hadwin, D., Gizani, H., Singh, G (2023) Working with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors, Chapter 19, in, J, Parker (ed) 2nd Edition. Introducing Social Work. London, Sage/Learning Matters.
Singh, G (2021) Anti-racist Social Work and the Present Moment, in, Outlanders: Hidden Narratives from Social Workers of Colour from Black and Other Global Majority Communities by Wayne Reid and Siobhan Maclean (eds). Staffordshire, Kirwin MacLean Associates.
Singh, G and Masocha, S (Eds) (2020) Anti-Racist Social Work: International Perspectives. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
Hadwin, D., Singh, G., and Cowden, S (2020) Working with Unaccompanied Minors, Chapter 17, in J, Parker and S. A., Crabtree (Eds) Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and Practice Perspectives (Volume I). Bristol, Policy Press.
Singh, G (2019) Anti-oppressive Social Work, Neoliberalism and Neoeugenics, in, M, Lavalette and I Ferguson, What is the future of social work?: Austerity, welfare transformations and alternative futures. Bristol, Policy Press.

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