Whiteness at Work

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.

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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.