Decolonising DMU

Universities around the country have resumed teaching whilst under the latest national lockdown in the UK - but it is a year like no other. In ordinary years Christmas is a point where some students will simply not return to their degrees. But with the added stress caused by Covid-19 on top of the other worries - will more students consider quitting?

This episode focuses on Black students who are more likely to drop out their degree programmes in the UK. We hear from a former DMU Media Production Graduate, Emmanuel Adeyemo, now Production Manager at Beat 103.6 FM in London and Associate Professor Mark Prescod on what De Montfort University is doing to support students.

www.decolonisingdmu.our.dmu.ac.uk 

Guest presenter, Charmaine Marufu, leads a student panel to discuss and explore the issue of micro aggressions as experienced by students at De Montfort University The panel look at racism, stereotypes of Muslims, and Asian female students and outline why the term 'gypsy' is an offensive term and the drive to remove it from documentation used at DMU. 

Guest Zara Tahir, Human right and 

Zara Tahir, final year Law, Human Rights and Social Justice (LLB)

Liam Sutton, second year  Law, Human Rights and Social Justice (LLB)

Taiwo Sofowora, Second year, Fashion Textiles and Design 

Black Lives Matter have drawn attention to deficiencies in how race is handled in the classroom. In this episode, Shardia Briscoe Palmer, Lecturer in Media and Communication, Dr Ben Witham, Senior Lecturer, International Relations and lecturers, Zaheera Essat and Maureen Raynor in Midwifery to discuss how race and racism feature in their teaching at De Montfort University.

Decolonising DMU Project Director Kaushika Patel, Interim Deputy Vice Chancellor of De Montfort University, Simon Aldroyd and Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, Kennetta Hammond Perry discuss and explore the concept of Decolonising and how it applies in practice at De Montfort University