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4 October 2024

In celebration of Black History Month, Robinson College is hosting two collaborative art workshops, open to students from all Colleges. Led by talented artists, including Cambridge alumnus Joshua Obichere, these workshops provide an open space for students to create or simply observe.Workshops will take place at Robinson College:Wednesday 16th Octo…

18 September 2024

First Year Induction 2024The Black Advisory Hub has planned an exciting programme of online and in-person events for new undergraduate and postgraduate students arriving for the 2024-2025 academic year. This programme will involve online pre-arrival and in person term-time events, and will be facilitated by a team of current students.  The programm…

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 would involve collaboratio…

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 Cambridge?".  For more infor…

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 a small proportion of pr…

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 social justice efforts across the…

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 the in-term in-person eve…

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 representation of under-repre…

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 more information on the app…

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 interests.Robbie Shilliam is Prof…

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 October, 2023 - 17:30 to 1…

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): Alexander Crummell PhD…

6 October 2023

The Black Creatives Festival is a three day, series of events held in Queens' College. The Festival seeks to harness black artists working in Cambridge and outside as well as widening knowledge and access to creative spaces within the University. As part of the event, an Access Day will be held on 27th October. The day will be held at Queens' Colle…

7 September 2023

Do you have a project, social event or initiative that needs a small sum of money to help get it off the ground? The Black Advisory Hub would love to help! We will be offering seed funding to support student social events, small scale research projects, seminars or workshops with themes relating to Black student induction and belonging to the Unive…

24 July 2023

We are currently seeking ten student co-facilitators for the third annual First Year Induction Programme for new Black students arriving at Cambridge. This programme was initially formed in response to feedback from Black students that they would value an opportunity to network and be informed about university and college resources and support serv…