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Dr Rosalind Coffey was a Visiting Research Fellow from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Dr Rosalind Coffey's research is about British media coverage of colonialism and resistance, primarily concerning the British Empire. Her first book, The British Press, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in Africa: The ‘Wind of Change’, 1957-60 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), looked at the role that British press coverage of Africa played during decolonisation. Her current project examines how the British media has discussed colonial reparation over time.
Dr Coffey is a Guest Teacher in the Department of International History at the LSE, where she teaches a course on empires and resistance in global history. Previously, she held a Senior Teaching Fellowship in the History Department at SOAS, where she convened four courses on African History. She has also taught courses on twentieth-century international history, historical methodologies, and contemporary global affairs. She is passionate about teaching and has won five teaching awards.
Britain, Colonial Reparation and the 2001 World Conference Against Racism
Dr Coffey researched British media coverage of the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance - one of the first occasions that reparations for slavery and colonialism were discussed collectively at international level.
