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A one-day conference for UCL staff on supporting BME student success was held on Tuesday 10 April 2018.
Read about what happened at the conference: BME Attainment gap 'unacceptable', says Provost
Download presentations given at the conference
Dr Julie Evans (UCL Brain Sciences), Paulette Williams and Rebecca Allen (Vice Provost Education and Student Affairs): Closing the undergraduate BME attainment gap at UCL
Dr Jason Arday, University of Roehampton: The Persistence of Racism in Higher Education: Understanding the BME Attainment Gap (keynote talk)
Dr Katherine Woolf, UCL Medical School: The ethnic attainment gap in medicine
Workshop slides
Dr Jason Arday (University of Roehampton) and Ayo Olatunji (UCL Student Union): Understanding White privilege in Higher Education
Dr Julie Evans (UCL Project Co-Lead), Dr Ros Duhs (Faculty Leads Coordinator) and Sarah Al-Aride (Sabbatical Education Officer Students’s Union): What does an Inclusive Curriculum look like?
Resources launched at the conference
UCL Inclusive Curriculum Healthcheck
UCL Guide to BME Belonging (from UCL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) (pdf)
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UCL Provost, Prof. Michael Arthur opes the conference stating that the BME attainment gap at UCL is ‘unacceptable’.
Rebecca Allen from the Office of the Vice Provost (Education and Student Affairs) presents BME attainment gap data.
Ayo Olatunji (BME Sabbatical Officer UCL Student Union) and Dr Jason Arday (University of Roehampton) run a workshop on white privilege.
Nona McDuff OBE, Director of Student Achievement, Kingston University presents at the conference.
Prof Ijeoma Uchegbu, from UCL's Global Engagement Office talks about the black british experience.
Dr Jason Arday, Roehampton University, presents his keynote talk on The Persistence of Racism in Higher Education.
