Doing Equity and Diversity for Success in Higher Education

1. Introduction: The Owl of Minerva Has Flown: Can Equity and Diversity be Done for Success in Higher Education Now?.- Part I. A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future.- 2. The Myth of Academic Underperformance and Notions of Truth 52 Years After the Passing of the Race Relations Act 1968: In Conversation with Dame Jocelyn Barrow.- 3. A Diverse Society Needs Diverse Solutions.- 4. What We Don’t, but Should Know.- 5. Decolonisation or Empowerment in Higher Education?.- 6 Travelling Between Historical Memory and the Current Predicament of Educational Reforms in Higher Education: A Transnational Perspective.- 7. Fencing the Race: Responding to the Past to Help Shape the Future. Part II. Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity or Decolonisation: The Big Conundrum.- 8. Decolonising Academic Spaces: Moving Beyond Diversity to Promote Racial Equity in Postsecondary Education.- 9. Towards the Unmaking of Canons: Decolonising the Study of Literature.- 10. “Merit”, “Success” and the Epistemic Logics of Whiteness in Racialised Education Systems.- 11. Decolonising the Academy: A Look at Student-Led Interventions in the UK.- 12. On the Fallacy of Decolonisation in Our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).- 13. Diversify or Decolonise? What You Can Do Right Now and How to Get Started.- Part III. Big Data: Am I a Name or Number?.- 14. The Unknown Student, and Other Short Stories: An Ethical and Methodological Exploration of Students as Data.- 15. Turning Big Data into Informed Action.- 16. Using Data-Driven Approaches to Address Systematic Awarding Gaps.- Part IV. Identity and Belonging for Outliers, Space Invaders and Others Within the Brick Walls.- 17. Recruitment, Retention and Progression: Navigating the Flashpoints of Gender, Race and Religious Discrimination in Higher Education.- 18. Reflections on Redressing Racial Inequalities, When Teaching Race in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Education.- 19. Fighting Back While Black: The Relationship Between Racialised Resistance and Well-Being.- 20. In Whose Interest Is ‘Training the Dog’? Black Academics’ Reflection on Academic Development for ‘Access and Success’ in a Historically White University in South Africa.- 21. Understanding Critical Whiteness Studies: Harmful or Helpful in the Struggle for Racial Equity in the Academy?.- 22. Who Feels It Knows It! Alterity, Identity and ‘Epistemological Privilege’: Challenging White Privilege from a Black Perspective Within the Academy.- 23. Many Rivers to Cross: The Challenges and Barriers Facing Aspiring Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Leaders in the Academy.- 24. Understanding and Interrupting Systemic Racism: A ‘Race Equality Receipt’ as a Mechanism to Promote Transformational Conversations and Stimulate Actions to Redress Race Inequality.- 25. Sowing the Seeds: Embracing and Re-imaging a More Racially Inclusive Academy.