Mendes, A. and Lau, L. (2022) Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 21(3), pp.223-239.
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Summary: Discusses what a safe space in a decolonised educational setting may look like and addresses the concept of ‘the righteous Postcolonial knight’.
Patel, P. (2019) Decolonise the Curriculum [online video]
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Summary: Focuses on the whiteness of the UK school curriculum and the impact this has on students. Also includes personal experiences of education in the UK as a pupil, teacher, and secondary school senior leader.
Sze, J.S., Cosmopolis, C., Hubbard, E.R.C., Mani, S., and Wang, M.M.H. (2022). Challenging Colonial Practices in Research: A Guide for PhD Researchers.
Summary: written by a group of PhD researchers at the University of Sheffield. Includes an overview of the reasons that PhD researchers should challenge colonial practices, as well as a series of recommendations and useful resources.
Baboeram, P. (2020) The Uprising.
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Summary: This documentary is a general introduction to colonialism and racism. Only when we truly understand racism, can we understand decolonisation in research. It may shake your world view.
Owusu, P. (2017) Decolonise the Curriculum.
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Summary: Explains intellectual colonialism, challenges the undertone implications of phrases such as 'unconscious bias’, and highlights that students of colour have to develop coping mechanisms for the current UK education system.
Datta, R. (2018) Decolonizing both researcher and research and its effectiveness in Indigenous research. Research Ethics, 14(2), pp.1-24.
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Summary: Have you ever thought that researchers, aiming to help people, may cause them considerable distress? The author of this paper shares her first-hand experience (and struggling, guilt, self-doubt…) in Indigenous research. It introduces the major problems in current Indigenous research, how to avoid them and the central principle to bear in mind throughout Indigenous research.
TRUST. (2018) Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings.
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Summary: A down to earth guide for decolonising research. The code focuses on equitable research relationships between partners in lower-income and high-income settings. It provides specific action guidelines across all research disciplines in clear, short statements accessible to everyone.
NCRMUK. (2017) Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Research Partnerships.
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Summary: Do you hope to achieve equitable and effective partnership with the indigenous community? In this video clip, you can enjoy in-depth illustrated thoughts by researchers collaborating in a UKRI funded project on Transforming Indigenous and Non Indigenous research.
Keane, M., Khupe, C. and Seehawer, M. (2017) Decolonising methodology: Who benefits from indigenous knowledge research?. Educational Research for social change, 6(1), pp.12-24.
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Summary: The knowledge arising from the local community should benefit them in return. Authors of this paper introduce practical and creative ways of knowledge sharing used in their research projects in South Africa. Reading their stories may inspire some ideas of involving the local people and sharing research findings with them.
Ndege, N and Onyango, J. (2021) how do we ‘decolonise’ research methodologies?
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Summary: Introduction to decolonising methodologies, which is accessible to PGRs. Simplified methods that can guide PGRs to make a positive difference to decolonisation without having to relearn everything they know about research, as well as the origins of colonisation.
Carson, Q. (2017) Pedagogy of the Decolonizing.
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Summary: Explains colonialism of the lands of institutions, how to tackle colonialism in institutions, and how ontology and epistemology contribute to colonial knowledge.
