In this episode, Chris Lloyd talks to Riadh Ghemmour about his work in social justice, decolonisation, and antiracism. The conversation is broadly about higher education in the UK and Algeria. 

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FURTHER RESOURCES:

- Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

EPISODE NOTES:

Riadh Ghemmour (he/him) holds a PhD in education from the University of Exeter. He is currently working at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London) as the learning skills coordinator. Riadh's work, scholarship and activism revolve around social justice, decolonisation and antiracism within HE and beyond. He is the co-founder of the Decolonial Dialogues shared space and his latest publication explores the idea of 'safe space' in a social justice context. Riadh is in the process to turn his thesis into a book which explores the concept of research in the Algerian HE.

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In this podcast episode, Catarina Carvalho talks to Chad Topaz about equity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

- Hatfield, Brown, and Topaz's journal article mentioned in the episode, 'Do introductory courses...' 

- Article on diversity and mathematical proofs

- The book, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

- Information about UMBC and their work in race equity 

- Articles on active learning in STEM: Ballet et al & Prince

- Decolonizing STEM reading list, from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

EPISODE INFO:

Dr Chad Topaz (he/him) is an applied mathematician and data scientist. His current research applies quantitative tools to expose and remedy social injustice, and is based out of the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE), which he co-founded. Chad is also Professor of Complex Systems at Williams College and, previously, Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College. His research on complex and nonlinear systems was supported by the National Science Foundation from 2006 – 2021.

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In this podcast episode, Sara de Sousa talks to Ana Cristina Chiusano about ‘Standard Academic English’ and its links to diversifying and decolonising the curriculum.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Ana has suggested the following that might be useful to people who want to know more about the subject.

– Interview with Tracey Derwing about ‘intelligibility and comprehensibility in pronunciation teaching’

– Jennifer Jenkins introduces English as a ‘lingua franca’.

– You might also want find out more about Braj Kachru, who Ana mentioned, and his ‘circles of English’

EPISODE INFO:

Ana Cristina Chiusano (she/her) holds both an MA in TEFL, 2009, Universidad de Jaén, Spain, and an MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, 2012, Universidad de León, Spain. She is a PhD candidate in Linguistics and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation. She is currently living in Montevideo, Uruguay, and works as a full-time professor and the academic coordinator of the Bilingual Teacher Training Program and the English Department at the Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay and an Adjunct Professor at Abilene Christian University, Texas, USA, where she teaches online courses on Spanish as a foreign language.

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