Whiteness at Work

In Part Two of my conversation with Dr Kathy Obear, we move from understanding whiteness to exploring what it actually means to take responsibility, build accountability and interrupt racism in practice. We begin with white accountability spaces. What happens when white people are given somewhere to examine racism honestly? How do we work with shame, defensiveness, tears and discomfort without all...

In Part One of my conversation with Dr Kathy Obear, I explore whiteness, white accountability and the everyday behaviours through which racism and inequity can continue to operate within our organisations. Kathy is an author, facilitator, coach and founder of the Center for Transformation and Change. With more than 40 years of experience in conflict resolution, change management and creating inclu...

In the final part of my conversation with Professor David Gillborn, we explore some of the most influential ideas within Critical Race Theory and why they remain so relevant to understanding racism today. Beginning with Derrick Bell's theory of interest convergence , David explains why progress towards racial equity is often temporary, how moments of change emerge, and why systems of power fre...

In Part Two of my conversation with Professor David Gillborn, we explore one of the most enduring and politically influential narratives in education today: the idea that white working-class children have become the forgotten victims of race equality. Drawing on decades of research and evidence from his latest book, White Lies: Racism, Education and Critical Race Theory , David unpacks how this na...

In Part One of this special three-part conversation, I sit down with Professor David Gillborn, one of the UK's leading Critical Race Theory scholars and a lifelong researcher of racism in education. We begin by exploring one of the most fundamental questions in race scholarship: what is whiteness? David explains why he increasingly prefers the term white racism over whiteness , arguing that th...

In this episode of the Whiteness at Work podcast, I speak with executive leader, strategist, coach and author Angie Browne about whiteness, leadership, equity, and what becomes possible when we stop allowing whiteness to define the limits of our imagination. Drawing on decades of experience working internationally across education, organisational strategy and leadership, Angie explores whiteness a...

In this episode of the Whiteness at Work podcast, I speak with coach, supervisor, researcher and writer Fenella Trevillion about whiteness, coaching, race, reflexivity, and the emotional and embodied realities of anti-racist practice. Fenella reflects on her experiences growing up in apartheid South Africa, her work within health and mental health services, and how witnessing racism across institu...

In this episode of the Whiteness at Work podcast, I speak with researcher and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dr Rhianna Garrett about whiteness, higher education, mixed-race identity, institutional racism, and the systems that continue to shape who belongs within universities and leadership spaces. Drawing from her widely discussed thesis, The Architecture of Whiteness , Rhianna explores how unive...

Description In this episode of the Whiteness at Work podcast, Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall engages with Professor Denise Miller and Dr. Charmaine Brown to explore the concept of whiteness, its implications in educational settings, and experiences with racism. They discuss the mechanisms to dismantle whiteness, the role of research in advocating for change, and the psychosocial costs of racism faced by...

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Penny Rabiger, researcher, facilitator, connector and anti-racist community resource who is the lead Coach on the Anti-Racist Schools Award at The Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality Penny is an educationalist who studies structural racism in school contexts. We discuss jewishness, being racialised into whiteness as white people, dreams, school contexts and...

In this episode Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall talks with Bernice Hewson, who is a coach, trainer and racial equity scholar. Bernice is the founder of Raising Racial Consciousness and writes and delivers programmes for practitioners and coaches, leaders and allies to deepen practice and challenge whiteness. We talk about whiteness in the institution, in coaching and in therapeutic spaces and the importan...

If you would like to hear more about the work of social justice researcher, Stephen Francis, here are some links to his work and profile: Article LinkedIn References Stephen Francis referred to and some other reading that might help: Farrell, F. (2021). White Man face, order words and deviance detectors: a Deleuzoguattarian analysis of fundamental British values.  Prism: Casting New Light on Learn...

In this episode Dr. Claire Stewart-Hall raises questions about why talking about whiteness is critical to its abolition and how it has affected her life and beliefs. She covers the why about whiteness - why study it? and what is the purpose? Equitable Coaching can be contacted for services here You can book into our monthly a white accountability space here . References Bonilla-Silva, E., Goar, C....

In this episode we talk about colour evasion as a foundational part of how whiteness functions in organisations, referencing the work of: Leonardo, Z. (2015) Contracting race: writing, racism, and education, Critical Studies in Education, 56:1, 86-98, DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.981197 Bonilla-Silva, E. (2018).  Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in...

This episode offers a verbal timeline about policy relating to race in schools in England and gives further food for thought for educators and policy makers about the relationships between education policy and institutional racism. I refer to the following documents: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report (2021) Esteves, O. (2018) The Desegregation of English Schools: bussing, r...

Are we still using that problematic term? This episode is part of the Racial Literacy series to develop skills to talk about race. In this episode, I discuss language and race and the 'right terms' to use to describe people.

So what is this podcast all about?

This short episode helps listeners to understand where the concept of 'race' came from historically and how it became embedded in the logics of colonialism still evident today.