Decolonising the curriculum: A toolkit for business & management educators

Professor Stella M. Nkomo
Strategic Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, University of Pretoria

Stella M. Nkomo is currently Strategic Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria.  Her academic career spans two continents. She was Professor and Head of the Department of Management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA), the Bateman Distinguished Professor of Business Leadership and Area Head of Organization Behavior and Human Resource Management at the School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, and the Deputy Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria.

Dr Sola Adesola
Senior Lecturer, EDI Lead & Vice Chair, Athena SWAN. Oxford Brookes University

Sola Adesola is a Senior Lecturer at the Oxford Brookes Business School. Her research interests are entrepreneurship, university-industry interactions, and energy policy. Sola is the Principal Investigator of a British Academy funded research on women participation in university spinouts in the Nigerian Universities. In 2018, Sola co-chaired an International Conference on Innovation and the new role of Universities. She has published widely and is the co-editor of two books: Energy in Africa: Policy, Management & Sustainability, published in 2019; and Entrepreneurial Universities – Creating Institutional Innovation in Times of Turbulence’, forthcoming in Sept 2020. She is a BAME leader and sits at university and faculty steering groups influencing and shaping institutional policies on race equality and Athena SWAN. Sola is a member of the Academic Board and Inclusion, Diversity & Gender Network Steering Group. She is a multi-award winner in Education and nominee for two awards at OBU.

Dr Sadhvi Dar
Senior Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London

Sadhvi Dar is Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics and CSR at the School of Business and Management Queen Mary University of London. Sadhvi’s research investigates knowledge production, governance, and accountability structures, with expertise in decolonial theory. Methodologically she uses ethnography, archival research, visual methods, and discourse analysis. She is co-founding member of the Decolonizing Alliance and Building the Anti-Racist Classroom collective.

Dr Angela Martinez Dy
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Loughborough University London

Dr Angela Martinez Dy is a Senior Lecturer for the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Her interest in entrepreneurship stems from her experience of building grassroots arts organisations in her hometown of Seattle, USA, where she was co-founder and Program Director for Youth Speaks Seattle, the area's leading creative writing and performing arts education organisation for young people.

Dr. Kendi Guantai
Corporate Communication & Public Relations, Leeds University Business School; Vice Chair, Chartered ABS Race Equality Action Group

Dr Kendi Guantai is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Communications and Marketing, at the Leeds University Business School (LUBS), where she manages and teaches post-graduate courses in Corporate Communications, Public Relations and Reputation Management. She is also the Vice President of the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC) covering the EMENA region (Europe, Middle East and North Africa).

Kendi is actively involved in various University committees and initiatives covering areas such as Decolonising the Curriculum and EDI. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Chartered Association for Business School’s Race Equality Action Group (REAG). Her research interests lie in the fields of Corporate and Public Sector Communications, as well as Sense of Belonging in education, business, and the wider community. For the later, she is one of

Dr Vanessa Iwowo
Programme Director, MSc., Human Resource Development & Consultancy, School of Business, Economics and Informatics (BEI), Birkbeck, University of London.

Dr. Vanessa Iwowo is Programme Director, MSc. HRD & Consultancy and Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck, University of London. She is an award-winning management scholar whose research focuses on ways of enhancing leadership development in multinational/cross-cultural contexts with a particular interest in Africa. Her interests lie in the critical study of processes, interactions and power relationships through which knowledge is generated and disseminated, particularly in the fields of leadership development and management education. Before joining Birkbeck, Vanessa taught Leadership and Decision Sciences at the London School of Economics (LSE) and previously at the Centre for Leadership Studies (CLS), University of Exeter Business School, from where she also received her PhD in Leadership Studies.

Professor Sally Everett
Vice Dean (Education), King’s Business School

Sally is Professor of Business Education and Vice Dean (Education) at King’s Business School, King’s College London. Sally is the academic lead for inclusive education at King’s and is on the self-assessment team responsible for writing chapters relating to teaching and learning for their Race Equality Charter (renewal). King’s College London was one of the first institutions to secure the REC in 2015 (Bronze). Sally was previously the Deputy Dean for the Business School at Anglia Ruskin University (2013 – 2018) and institutional chair for inclusive learning. She is a National Teaching Fellow (2017) and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2013). Sally is the Equality Officer for the Association of National Teaching Fellows and is a member of the CAB’s Equality and Diversity Committee.

Before her role at ARU, Sally was the Head of Department for tourism and marketing at the University of Bedfordshire. Sally’s research interests include social and cultural tourism and inclusive curriculum. Recent publications include books and peer reviewed articles on food tourism, innovative methodologies, community resistance and inclusive teaching.

Corinna Hattersley-Mitchell
Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Sussex Business School

Rachael Carden
Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, Brighton Business School

Rachael Carden SFHEA is the Subject Group Leader for the Responsible Enterprise and Innovation Subject group at Brighton Business School (BBS). She has a demonstrated history of working in higher education since 2004 and is skilled in lecturing; teacher training; elearning; higher education research and English as a second language. Rachael is a professional educator with a first degree in Business from Sheffield Hallam University and a Master’s in Education from the University of Brighton. Her passion for work and research into Equality, Diversity and Inclusion has led to her doing a PhD into experiences of Mixed Race Students, being a member of the EDI Committee at BBS, setting up and running a Business Summer School for local Widening Participation Schools. Additionally she works on digital teaching technologies to support inclusion.

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