EDF Research Network seminar:
Who’s in and who’s out? Patterns of prejudice
3-5pm, Tuesday 4 November 2014
Biographies (abridged) of chair and speakers
Dr Alice Donald, Middlesex University
Alice Donald is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Law at Middlesex
University. She previously worked as a commissioner, editor and
broadcast journalist with the BBC World Service (1991-2005). She was an
Associate of Global Partners and Associates from 2007-10, and Senior
Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University from 2010-12. She is
the author (with Philip Leach) of The Role of National Parliaments in the
Implementation of Judgments of the European Court of Human
Rights (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2015) among other
publications on equality and human rights. She is a member of the
Equality and Diversity Forum Research Network Steering Group.
Professor Miles Hewstone, University of Oxford
Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New
College at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict. He has
published widely in the general field of experimental social psychology.
His major topics of research on intergroup relations have included:
prejudice and stereotyping, stereotype change, crossed categorization,
intergroup contact, the reduction of intergroup conflict, sectarianism in
Northern Ireland, and segregation and integration. He is the author of over
300 scholarly articles and contributions to edited volumes, and has written
or edited over 20 books. Beyond his scientific contribution to the
understanding of intergroup conflict, and especially how this might be
reduced via intergroup contact, Professor Hewstone has also been
actively involved in public policy input relating to improving intergroup
relations in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Dan Robertson, Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei)
Dan Robertson has a solid 12-year track record of working across public
and private sector organisations in the field of Diversity and Inclusion
Management. Before joining enei, Dan worked as a Senior Consultant for
a national diversity specialist consultancy firm, where he supported a
range of national organisations on their diversity and inclusion
programmes. Dan also led on the design of ILM accreditation
programmes and a Diversity in Business Accreditation standard.
James Taylor, Stonewall
James Taylor is Head of Policy at Stonewall, leading the lesbian, gay and
bisexual equality charity’s work on health, care, sport, immigration,
asylum and parliamentary engagement. James leads Stonewall’s No
Bystanders campaign and Rainbow Laces campaign activity. James has
been at Stonewall for four years; previously he was a civil servant at the
Department of Health working in the Policy and Strategy Unit
Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard, Runnymede
Debbie Weekes-Bernard is Head of Research at the Runnymede Trust
where she has worked since 2005 (as a Policy and Research Analyst).
Debbie has significant policy and research experience in the areas of
equality, diversity and widening participation. Her recent publications
include oral history work exploring the contribution of Asian NHS staff to
the national health service, Runnymede reports exploring the impact of
changes to the National Curriculum on the teaching and learning of
diversity in schools, the relationship of race equality to Widening
Participation policies in higher education and re-examining the persistent
gaps in rates of school exclusion for minority ethnic pupils and their white
counterparts. She is an Equality and Diversity Forum Trustee and a
member of the Equality and Diversity Forum Research Network Steering
Group.
The EDF Research Network thanks King’s College London and the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation for their support.
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