Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) student and staff in contemporary British Geography

Vandana Desai

doi:10.1111/area.12372

Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) student and staff in contemporary British Geography

Vandana Desai

Department of Geography

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Abstract

This commentary examines the profile of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) student and staff in contemporary UK Geography. National data from HESA and other studies on ethnicity in academia are used to provide an overview of diversity and equality issues affecting UK-based Geography Departments. The findings from the data analysis highlight the predominant ‘whiteness’ of the discipline when compared to the number of BME student and staff, in turn raising troubling equality and diversity issues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	320-323
Number of pages	4
Journal	Area
Volume	49
Issue number	3
Early online date	7 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12372
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017

Keywords

Ethnicity
Race
STUDENT-ACHIEVEMENT
Academic Staff
Geography
INEQUALITY
U.K.
attainment gap

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