Kalwant Bhopal

@kalwantbhopal.bsky.social

Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/bhopal-kalwant

Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality & academic citizenship w/ @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social how collegiality masks racism in academia. "White collegiality is a process that allows evidence of racism to be overlooked, excused and explained as a natural state of affairs." doi.org/10.1080/0142...

Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship

UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...

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RESEARCH PROJECT! Are you from a minority ethnic/BAME background and often get mistaken for an ethnicity that isn't your own? Are you interested in discussing the impact of these experiences on your identity? If so, I would love to interview you! Please contact me at: K.Bhopal@bham.ac.uk

Palestinian families panic and flee after the occupation airstrikes a residential building in Nuseirat refugee camp. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine has not stopped in over 8 decades and this ‘ceasefire’ is yet another facade.

This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

This is the heart-wrenching story of a man who is uniquely capable of leading peace negotiations and who, for this precise reason, is held hostage and tortured repeatedly for more than two decades by Israel. With the West's connivance, of course... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

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