Becoming an Anti Racist Scholar: One-Day Action Workshop and Anti-Racist Blog Showcase
A BSA Postgraduate Regional Event
8 April, 2025 (10am-5pm BST)
Room 5, Showroom Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX
About the Event
A mix of academic, creative and collaborative sessions, Becoming an Anti Racist Scholar: One-Day Action Workshop and Anti-Racist Blog Showcase is for everyone in and around Sheffield interested in anti-racist activism.
CARBS (Centre Anti Racist Blog Series), an anti racist blog space, was conceptualised in 2023 as a response to structural and individual experiences of racism in the university that often went undocumented, tackled in isolation or entirely forgotten. It was a starting point for collective intervention against jargon-loaded, inaccessible theories on racism, to encourage conversations that are accessible and engaging in a way that supports anti-racist efforts. Cultivating such anti-racist campaigns required fostering safe, non-policed rooms (both literally and metaphorically) of people against dominant and exclusionary academic discourses. At CARBS, we believe articulating and documenting our experiences of racism and other forms of oppression empower us to (re)imagine the university as a space for anti-racist (and anti-colonialist) struggle.
Our event is a showcase where postgraduate researchers (PGRs) of colour from The University of Sheffield will come together to present their blog contributions, covering themes like loneliness, international student experiences, sexual identities, equality, diversity and inclusion procedures or simply about doing a PhD in a UK university. There will also be an interactive keynote on practising anti-racist scholar activism by Remi Joseph Salisbury (Sociology, University of Manchester) and Laura Connelly (Sociological Studies, TUoS).
In the afternoon, we will explore co-creating anti-racist futures (with participants and audiences) using creative methods as a group. We will make collective zines that will guide us to imagine alternative futures within the university and find joy in working in community. This will be an opportunity for PGRs to learn and be inspired by creative methods in their research for their professional development.
Registration
This will be an in-person only event. To encourage engagement, this event is free to register. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
The event will be hosted at Showroom Workstation in Sheffield and convened by Nabila Cruz and Pragya Roy (both PhD students in Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield). It is supported by the British Sociological Association (BSA) and is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEI), Sheffield.