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2014 events and projects in the University of Manchester on race, migration and ethnicity

2014 events and projects in the University of Manchester on race, migration and ethnicity. laurence.brown@manchester.ac.uk Lecturer in Migration History Academic Director, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre. Sept 1986: murder of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah at Burnage High School, Manchester

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2014 events and projects in the University of Manchester on race, migration and ethnicity

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  1. 2014 events and projects in the University of Manchesteron race, migration and ethnicity laurence.brown@manchester.ac.ukLecturer in Migration HistoryAcademic Director, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre

  2. Sept 1986: murder of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah at Burnage High School, Manchester • 1999: formation of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre • 6 December 2013- March 2014: Resource Centre moving to new Central Library, Albert Square, Manchester http://racearchive.org.uk/ @AIUCentre

  3. 10,000 books, journals, films, and archives • Collection strengths: • Migration studies • Local history • Race in the Americas • CRE library • Archives • Steve Cohen collection (anti-deportation campaigns) • Oral interviews (Caribbean, South Asian, refugees, 1945 Pan-African Congress) • 1981 Moss Side riots • Hulme / Moss Side

  4. New Central Library, Albert Square • New spaces for workshops, exhibitions, events

  5. New researchwww.ethnicity.ac.uk

  6. University Strategy 2020 – high level KPIs To increase equality and diversity at all levels in the staff that we employ until our staff profile is representative of national and local populations. Total female academics Senior Lecturer and above until representative of Female lecturer pool - 46% Total BME academics Senior Lecturer and above until representative of BME lecturer pool -16% BME total % grade 6 and above until representative of BME staff employed in Professional Occupations in UK - 11%

  7. Working with schools

  8. Contacts at the University of Manchester • Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre • http://racearchive.org.uk/ • rrarchive@manchester.ac.uk • @AIUCentre • Social Responsibility • http://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/ • @SocialResponUoM • Equality and Diversity Office • equalityanddiversity@manchester.ac.uk • The Works • http://www.theworksmanchester.co.uk/ • @theworksmcr

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