Awarding Gap Seminar series: Exploring the unexplained spaces of the ethnicity awarding gap

DMU Education Academy’s Awarding Gap seminar series: Exploring the unexplained spaces of the ethnicity awarding gap

Sign up now to the DMU Education Academy’s online Awarding Gap seminar series, taking place on Thursday 6 February, 12noon–1pm, via MS Teams. This second session titled: Exploring the unexplained spaces of the ethnicity awarding gap, will be hosted by sector-leading expert Pradeep Passi.

Pradeep is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Social Justice and Equity) at the University of Salford and leads its institutional approach to embedding principles of social justice and equity into its education, research, enterprise and people strategies. He has held a number of academic leadership roles over the last 18 years, including in the areas of student experience and success, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and learning and teaching.  His professional interests lie in developing approaches that are intentionally inclusive, using co-creation as a tool to drive organisational change with a clear focus of reducing inequity. Pradeep’s research interests lie in seeking out approaches that will lead to the elimination of awarding gaps and is a founding member of the UK Higher Education Awards Gap Group. He currently co-chairs the Race Equality Charter Governance Committee, which oversees the development of the charter across the higher education sector in the UK. Pradeep draws on his extensive experience in working across the public sector, including the NHS, criminal justice agencies and local government.

The ethnicity awarding gap remains a stubborn phenomenon across higher education. This session will provide an opportunity to reflect on current literature and the presenters' research into the ethnicity awarding gap, focusing on student identity and relationships through the combined lenses of critical race theory and the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu relating to habitus, field and capital. Participants will be able to reflect on and discuss their own practice and take away practical ideas that can be implemented at programme and/or institution level.