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Black teachers’ experiences of reporting racist incidents in English schools: Lessons for school leaders (2025)
Journal Article

In 2020, the Runnymede report Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools found that clear anti-racist policies were needed to address the institutional and systematic disadvantaging of racially minoritised staff and students. This article explores... Read More about Black teachers’ experiences of reporting racist incidents in English schools: Lessons for school leaders.

Tell it how it is: Princess & The Hustler in the secondary English classroom (2025)
Journal Article

The recent inclusion of texts by a range of Black British writers in GCSE English Literature syllabuses seems an attempt to rectify historical racial inequities in English curricula. In this paper, I argue that curricular change must move beyond dive... Read More about Tell it how it is: Princess & The Hustler in the secondary English classroom.

Black British literature in the secondary English classroom (2023)
Journal Article

This essay explores the teaching and learning of Black British literature in UK secondary schools with reference to texts that now appear on GCSE English Literature specifications. It seeks to reveal some of the issues that may arise when teaching te... Read More about Black British literature in the secondary English classroom.

Making spaces for collaborative action and learning: Reflections on teacher-led decolonising initiatives from a professional learning network in England (2022)
Journal Article

This article draws on the experiences of teachers and teacher educators within the “Bristol Decolonising Network”, an informal professional learning network based in South West England, to share examples of teacher-led decolonising/antiracist initiat... Read More about Making spaces for collaborative action and learning: Reflections on teacher-led decolonising initiatives from a professional learning network in England.

Lived experience: The process of decolonising the curriculum (2022)
Book Chapter

In this section, I define what is meant by 'decolonisation' of the curriculum, before going on to suggest ways this might be approached across different school subjects.