Generation Delta
We, Clémentine Bedos, Angela Loum and Devina Paramdeo, are PhD students in the departments of Art and Computing, Sociology, and Education at Goldsmiths. Our research is funded by Generation Delta. Together we run the Generation Delta PGR network at Goldsmiths, which is open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) female-identifying PGR students from all disciplines. We aim to run monthly sessions on creating a supportive safe space to discuss methods to nurture our paths into academia.
Generation Delta is a new Office for Students/UK Research and Innovation project running from 2022 –2026, led by six BAME female professors, members of the Black Female Professors Forum. It is designed to lay the foundations for a long-term increase in the retention in number of BAME female professors in higher education institutions in England. It is a four-year project designed to create long lasting networks for BAME female PGR students.
Currently, BAME women account for 2.3% (355) of UK professors; Black African and Caribbean are less than 1% UK professors (Advance HE, 2020). Generation Delta addresses both institutional and individual barriers experienced by BAME women at various stages of their PGR life cycle, through the delivery of a programme on training and strategic advice that recognises the impact of intersecting inequalities on access and progression in academic careers.
Building on the multi-disciplinarity of our individual research projects, our network covers a wide range of key topics that are yet often underfunded and overlooked: from the relationship between shamanic practices and immersive technologies, to misrepresentation and the stigma of Black women’s pain during childbirth, through the impact of the residential area on the operation of parental school choice. We all approach our research through rigorous, innovative and creative methodologies, offering community-and care-based responses to the most anguished cultural realities of our current times.
We, Clémentine Bedos, Angela Loum and Devina Paramdeo, are PhD students in the departments of Art and Computing, Sociology, and Education at Goldsmiths. Our research is funded by Generation Delta. Together we run the Generation Delta PGR network at Goldsmiths, which is open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) female-identifying PGR students from all disciplines. We aim to run monthly sessions on creating a supportive safe space to discuss methods to nurture our paths into academia.
Generation Delta is a new Office for Students/UK Research and Innovation project running from 2022 –2026, led by six BAME female professors, members of the Black Female Professors Forum. It is designed to lay the foundations for a long-term increase in the retention in number of BAME female professors in higher education institutions in England. It is a four-year project designed to create long lasting networks for BAME female PGR students.
Currently, BAME women account for 2.3% (355) of UK professors; Black African and Caribbean are less than 1% UK professors (Advance HE, 2020). Generation Delta addresses both institutional and individual barriers experienced by BAME women at various stages of their PGR life cycle, through the delivery of a programme on training and strategic advice that recognises the impact of intersecting inequalities on access and progression in academic careers.
Building on the multi-disciplinarity of our individual research projects, our network covers a wide range of key topics that are yet often underfunded and overlooked: from the relationship between shamanic practices and immersive technologies, to misrepresentation and the stigma of Black women’s pain during childbirth, through the impact of the residential area on the operation of parental school choice. We all approach our research through rigorous, innovative and creative methodologies, offering community-and care-based responses to the most anguished cultural realities of our current times.
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