Sarah Parker Remond Centre

The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation explores the impact of racism - scientific, metaphysical and cultural.

Part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, we work closely with many partners on-site to provide a focal point for scholarship, teaching and public engagement activities that are addressed to various problems of racial inequality and hierarchy.

MA Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies

Exploring processes of racialisation, racialised experience and racism in gloabl, trans-historical and multidisciplinary ways

students in a library writing working papers

Working Paper Series

The SPRC’s Working Paper Series provides a format for postgraduate students and researchers to disseminate ideas and work in progress.

Podcasts

Highlighting important research and conversations on racism and racialisation, with contributions from academics, activists and cultural practitioners

Events and Event Recordings

The SPRC hosts a number of research events, details of which be viewed here, along with recordings of some of them

Sarah Parker Remond plaque unveiling

The amazing 19th century freedom fighter, intellectual and doctor has been honoured with a Nubian Jak plaque

The Firsts – Sarah Parker Remond

A commissioned portrait, from multidisciplinary visual artist-researcher Sasha Huber, commemorating the remarkable life of Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894)

Racism and Racialisation PhD group

The Racism and Racialisation PhD group is comprised of UCL postgraduate research students working on issues surrounding race and racism

Research

The SPRC is committed to the production of new, historically-informed, critical knowledge addressed to some of the most urgent social and political questions of our time

SPRC Report on Current Research Related to Racism and Racialisation

Report on Current Research Related to Racism and Racialisation in the Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities Faculties, UCL (2023)