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Seeking student communications officer: summer temp work

4 July 2024

The Black Advisory Hub is seeking a current student with some experience and interest in helping the current team to develop a communications strategy to promote its current activities and to get ready for the next academic year. The work commitment would be flexible, for approximately half a day per week over summer, and...

Essay competition - George Bridgetower Essay Prize

4 July 2024

The essay competition with a prize of £1000 is now open with a submission date of the 1st September 2024. All current students are eligible, including students who have just recently graduated. This year's prompt is " How do the current conversations about academic freedom and freedom of speech affect Black students at...

Open lecture: We Must Move the Needle on Inequality in Academia

14 June 2024

Annual Gloria Carpenter Lecture 18 June | 5.30 – 6.30pm | The Pitt Building & Online Despite ample evidence that inequalities harm innovation, productivity and general well-being, inequalities persist in all areas of economic life in the UK, including in academia. Black, Asian, and minority ethnic academics occupy only...

Focus group participants sought: archiving student resistance and decolonisation

10 June 2024

A team of student and staff researchers who all presented at the Black Awarding Gap & Decolonisation Forum in 2023 have since come together to work on a new digital archive dedicated to documenting and preserving the long history of Cambridge student resistance and futuring through anti-racist, decolonial and other...

Seeking Project assistant (casual hours): Black Advisory Hub First Year Induction Programme

29 May 2024

The Black Advisory Hub is seeking a current postgraduate student to work with the BAH team in coordinating the First Year Induction programme for the academic year 2024-25. This project work will involve designing the pre-term online session in September, coordinating a programme of staff and student speakers, as well as...

University Diversity Fund small project grants

17 January 2024

The University Diversity Fund (UDF) is held yearly and provides grants of up to £1500 and is open to applications from students and University staff. The UDF is supported by the Alexander Crummell Fund . The UDF supports initiatives across the University that aim to challenge discrimination and inequalities, increase the...

Creative writing bursary for Black British Caribbean writers

9 January 2024

The new Joy Brandon creative writing bursary is open for Black British Caribbean students embarking on a part-time, two-year Master of Studies programme in either Creative Writing or Writing for Performance at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education. This year's closing date is the 17 January. For...

Today's Annual Race Equality Lecture: Legacies of the Imperial Academy

26 October 2023

In this talk, Professor Robbie Shilliam will examine the apprehension, expressed in recent debates over Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, that racial identity claims are ill fitting for the ethos of higher education. He argues that much more than Rhodes’ statue implicates the British academy in the Empire’s southern African...

Gloria Carpenter Annual Lecture 30 October - book now

23 October 2023

The guest speaker for this year's Gloria Carpenter Lecture is Dr Bronwen Everill, Director of the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge and the Convenor of the Consortium for the Global South. She will be giving a lecture titled "Good Intentions: Slavery, Abolition, and Inequality in the Modern World". Date: Monday, 30...

Fully funded scholarships for PhD and MPhil students applications are open!

13 October 2023

The Alexander Crummell fully funded Scholarships for PhD students and MPhil students are aimed at home (UK fee rate) students with Black or Black-Mixed ethnicity , applying for a degree in a science-based subject at the University of Cambridge starting in October 2024. Further information is at: · AC PhD studentship(s)...