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About the authors
This research was conducted by a collaborative team
drawing on expertise from
BMRB Social Research, the Centre for
Racial Equality in Scotland and
UHI PolicyWeb.
Rowena Arshad is the Director for the
Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (
CERES) and Senior Lecturer at the School
of Education, University of Edinburgh. She has worked in
the area of race equality and anti-discrimination since
1985. She is also a Commissioner for the Equal
Opportunities Commission with responsibility for Scotland
and a member of the Scottish Higher Education Funding
Council. Published widely in the area of race equality and
equity particularly in relation to Scottish politics and
policy,, she has also given lectures and provided
consultancies to education sectors in Austria, Canada,
Germany and the Czech Republic. Her most recent published
research is on documenting the experiences of minority
ethnic pupils in Scottish schools and developing a web
toolkit on staff training materials in the area of
anti-racist education for Scottish teachers and senior
managers. She has recently headed up a successful
consortium developing anti-sectarian education material web
materials for schools and youth groups for the Scottish
Executive. Her forthcoming work include managing national
projects on staff development on equality issues,
developing materials for mainstreaming into school
curriculum and working with Scottish education authorities
on mainstreaming race equality. She is also currently
working on a project for Universities Scotland to develop a
toolkit for including race equality into the curriculum
within the higher education sector.
Philomena de Lima is a Development Officer
and Researcher with
UHI Policy Web, based in the Scottish
Highlands. She has more than 15 years of research and
consultancy experience with a wide range of clients. She
authored the first publication in 2001 on rural minority
ethnic groups in Scotland, '
Needs not Numbers', completed a mapping exercise
on rural 'race' issues in the British context for the
Commission for Racial Equality in 2002/3 and contributed to
an audit of research on ethnic minorities in Scotland in
2001. She has recently completed a study on access to
further and higher education amongst minority ethnic groups
in the Highlands and Islands. Recent publications include,
a chapter on rural racism in 'Rural Racism' edited by
Chakraborti and Garland (2004) and published by Willan
Publishing, and an article on ethnicity/'race' in relation
to social exclusion / inclusion debates in Scotland in the
Policy Futures in Education journal. She has also
recently been appointed a Carnegie Consultant by the
Carnegie
UK Trust to coordinate one of their
rural action themes 'Rebuilding Fractured Communities'
across the
UK. She is actively involved regionally
and nationally on policy issues, including the Scottish
Further Education Council.
Susie MacDonald is a Senior Research
Executive specialising in qualitative social research at
BMRB. Susie has worked on a range of
projects for several clients in the public, charity and
not-for-profit sectors, including local authorities. These
projects have been diverse and have included planning
research, research related to housing and regeneration
programmes, strategy development research and research with
opinion formers. Examples of Susie's work include research
to examine young offenders' and parents' experiences of the
youth justice system; research examining families' and
young adults' experiences of homelessness and living in
temporary accommodation; and other projects including
research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Royal
Society. She has also worked on a number of other projects,
including benefits and tax research, and recently managed
the qualitative strand of
BMRB's evaluation of
PS plus, a programme aiming to reduce
the barriers preventing prisoners from becoming employed.
Before beginning her career in research, Susie studied for
a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology at London Guildhall
University, and a
BA in Ancient and Modern History at
Christ Church, Oxford University.
Vanessa Stone is a Director in
BMRB's Social Research Department.
Vanessa specialises in the conduct of qualitative social
research. She has been working in this field for over
fifteen years and in this time has primarily been
conducting studies for government departments and public
bodies. Clients have included the Scottish Executive, Home
Office, Black Police Association, Social Exclusion Unit,
Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health, and
the Department for Education and Skills. Vanessa has also
conducted studies for charities, community groups,
hospitals and health authorities. She has led a number of
projects in relation to ethnicity, these have included:
work for the Lord Chancellor's Department among court users
on the introduction of a question on ethnicity in the civil
jurisdiction to develop equality work; research projects
and development work for the Metropolitan Black Police
Association to help bridge the gap between inner city
communities and the police; a project for the Department of
Health to support needs in relation to sexual health among
young Jamaican, Indian and Pakistani teenagers; research
for the Home Office to explore the views of people from
minority ethnic communities towards a career with the
police and another to investigate experiences of stop and
search. Vanessa has also conducted projects among people
seeking asylum and those recently awarded 'leave to
remain'. She recently managed a research project to develop
the Scottish Executive's 'One Scotland, Many Cultures'
campaign against racism.
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