Dr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University



 
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside. 

 

Dr Viji Kuppan managed a work package about the historical, cultural and symbolic expressions of racism in the countryside and has a deep love of the countryside...for one, he's climbed several stages of Mount Snowden with a group of fifty people of colour, some of whom who have limited access to the countryside- enjoying the rugged beauty and grandeur of this land