VIRTUAL EVENT: Leadership and identity
24 February 2021, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
This webinar will explore a research study focused on leadership and identity among Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women, with a particular emphasis on Bangladeshi and Pakistani women living and working in the UK.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
-
Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES)
Victoria Showunmi will discuss the research projectÌýon leadership and identity.
To make some sense of the notion and concept of race, she suggestsÌýperhaps making use of Omi andÌýWinant's (1994) definition of 'race as a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies'.
As part of the research project, a group of White women leaders were interviewed to include their views to find out and better understand whether the construction of race has an impact on one’s individual leadership style. Ìý
Exploring race in the context of this study could suggest it is simultaneously an interpretation, representation, and/or an explanation of racial dynamics. ThisÌýadds to the challenge in the reorganising of one’s thinking along particular racial lines.Ìý
In this talk, Victoria will discuss how the research presents raceÌýas a particular discursive practice, whereÌýsocial structures and everyday experiences are racially organised based on their meaning.
Speaker
- Dr , UCL Institute of Education
CHESÌýresearch events
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Links
- Ìý(PPT, 0.5MB)
- CHESÌýresearch events
- Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES)Ìý
- Education, Practice and Society
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