Professor Parveen Yaqoob, University of Reading, “The one with the foreign sounding name.”
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Professor Parveen Yaqoob
Professor of Nutritional Physiology, Deputy Vice Chancellor & Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), University of Reading; Chair of the Athena Swan Governance Committee
“The one with the foreign sounding name.”
In this talk, Professor Yaqoob will:
- Share snapshots of her lived experience of racism, as a second-generation British Pakistani growing up in South London in the 70s and 80s, as a university student at Oxford, and during her career as an academic and university leader.
- Explore whether universities in the UK are institutionally racist.
- Explain why a Race Equality Review was needed at the University of Reading and what it aims to achieve.
- Set out three key steps to making your organisation anti-racist.
Panel Members: Professor Dipak Ramji (Chair), Professor Jim Murray, Professor Daniela Riccardi and Dr Numair Masud.