This workshop will explore why decolonising is essential for our university curricula, pedagogy and cultures, using lived experience and testimony as its central driver. You will have the opportunity to hear testimony from decolonisation activists; students and staff impacted by the current state of our universities; and hear from Mia, who started her work as a grassroots student campaigner and now works in anti-racism in higher education. This workshop will be an opportunity for empathy-building; education around the costs of a colonised education; and decolonial imaginings for our universities' future. 

Mia Liyanage is a decolonisation advocate and the author of Miseducation: decolonising curricula, culture and pedagogy in UK universities from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI). She is the former Co-Chair of Common Ground Oxford, a student movement challenging racism, classism and the legacy of colonialism in both the University and the city of Oxford. She is currently the Race Equality Charter Officer at Goldsmiths, University of London; she is also an Associate Researcher at Advance HE, currently working on the Anti-Racist Curriculum project. Mia holds a BA in History and a master's in U.S. History from the University of Oxford, and her research specialism is queer history.

Speaker Details: Mia Liyanage, Race Equality Charter Officer, Goldsmiths. Associate at Advance HE. 

Part of the KED Talk Live Series.