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  • Are the Chinese the new ‘suspect community’?

    21 November 2022 by Chi Zhang

    HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Chi Zhang, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. ‘Kill the Chinese’ is a piece of racist graffiti found on a flagpole…

  • Representation Matters: Reflections on Academia’s ‘Leaky Pipeline’

    17 October 2022 by Blessing Marandure

    HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. ‘Who did you say sent you?’…