Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE)

• Annual Equity in Education Conference – 2021. Dr Roxanne Khan will deliver a keynote speech at this conference on the theme: Race, Gender and Identity – Event times: 16:00 - Wednesday July 14
• The new panel for the transformed UK Athena Swan Charter – 2020. Pradeep Passi is appointed as a UK Athena Swan Charter panel chair
• COVID-19 and the heart with Professor Gershan Davis – 2020. Professor Davis features in educational audio-visual for Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
• The ‘known knowns’ and ‘known unknowns’ of heart disease in the BAME population- What doctors are not taught at Medical School, UCLan – 2020. Professor Gershan Davis
• Enhancing International Student Attainment, AACSB Diversity and Inclusion Summit, New Orleans – 2019. Pradeep Passi
• Factors affecting the BAME attainment gap, PG research Conference, UCLan – 2019. Pradeep Passi
• Place and Space – Race and Mental Health 12^th Annual Critical Perspectives Conference. Cork – 2019. Dr John Wainwright
• Echoes of Frantz Fanon in the place and space of an alternative black mental health centre. Liverpool Hope University – 2018. Dr John Wainwright

• Adlan, A., Lim, V., Sastry, S., Dhillon, G., Kurdi, H., Doolub, G., Elamin, N., Aziz, A. & Davis, G. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on primary percutaneous coronary intervention centres in the UK: a survey. The British Journal of Cardiology, 27, 49-52.
• Davis, G. K., Adlan, A., Majewski, J., & Ibrahim, B. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the cardiovascular system: What the non-cardiologist needs to know. Clinical Medicine, 20(3), 262
• Karolia, I. & Wainwright, J,. P. (2020). We Are the Same, but Different: a duoethnography of people of colour who are care leavers. Genealogy, 4 (3). p. 80.
• Khan, R. & Lowe, M. (2020). Homophobic ‘honour’ abuse experienced by South Asian gay men in England. In M. Idriss (Ed.), Men, Masculinities and Honour-Based Violence, Chapter 6 (pp. 95-113). Oxon: Routledge.
• McKeown, M., &. (2020). Echoes of Frantz Fanon in the place and space of an alternative black mental health centre. Critical and Radical Social Work.
• Muiruri, P. N., Brewer, G., & Khan, R (2020). “If it wasn’t for ethics, I wouldn’t go near him”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of caring for patient-prisoners in Kenya. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(14), 2440–2452.
• Qasim, S., McKeown, M., Kunda, C., Wainwright, J. P., & Khan, R. (2020). Plant Fetish: A Creative Challenge to Mental Health Stigma. Genealogy, 4(2), 40.
• Viola, L., Davis, G., & Owens, W. A. (2021). An interesting case of giant fusiform right coronary artery aneurysm. Journal of cardiac surgery, 36(1), 339-341.
• Wainwright, J., & Larkins, C. (2020). Race, ethnicity, young people and offending: the elephant in the room. Social Identities, 26(1), 128-144.
• Wainwright, J., Robertson, L., Larkins, C., & Mckeown, M. (2020). Youth justice, Black children and young men in Liverpool: a story of rac (ism), identity and contested spaces. Genealogy, 4(2), 57.
• Wainwright, J. & Burke, B. (2020). Guest Editors, Genealogy. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, Children Young People and Their Families in and against the Youth (Criminal) Justice System.

Pradeep Passi

• Race in focus: PhD studentships (2020-2024). Funded by UCLan (circa £280,000)

Pradeep secured funding to support 5 PhD studentships to research areas of racial inequality in higher education. Research areas include (i) the Black student award gap; (ii) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic experiences of being early careers researchers, and (iii) the relationship of Black communities with higher education. Further details under tab ‘Race in focus: PhD Studentships’

Dr John Wainwright

• Post Prison Support – Young Muslim Men (2021). Funded by Lancashire BME Network (£3,000)

Dr Wainwright is Principal Investigator on this pilot project to explore the experiences of young, south Asian, Muslim men when trying to reintegrate into their local community. To explore the possibilities of pathways to enable change and encouraging the young men to desist from offending, Citizen’s Juries have been established to discuss alternative methods and projects for them to take up as they reintegrate.

• Support 360 Project (2018-2021). Funded by the National Lottery via Lancashire BME Network (£12,000)

Dr Wainwright was Principal Investigator on this project which was delivered by four local community organisations. It focused on providing welfare, immigration, and other services to the local communities to enable individuals who service-users to develop resilience and other skills to encourage socio-economically growth.

Dr Roxanne Khan

• Harmful traditional practices: workplace guidance for best practice. (status: awarded, £12,000). Research England (Quality Related-Strategic Priorities Funding). November 2019.

Professor Gershan Davis

• Recent Applications-NIHR Heart Failure/Office for Students -Attainment Gap in Post Graduate Research
• DISCHARGE TRIAL PI funded by 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission

• Salma Qasim. PhD student (2021) Stigma of schizophrenia in Black and Asian people in the UK in relation to help-seeking and intervention participation. Supervisors: Professor Mick McKeown, Dr Roxanne Khan, Dr John Wainwright.
• Beth Hall. PhD student (2021) Social Status, Social Media & Gang Activity. Supervisors: Dr Roxanne Khan, Dr Mike Eslea.
• Victoria Ibizem. PhD student (2021). Topic- Mind the Gap: The Black student award gap. Supervisors, Dr John Wainwright, Dr Roxanne Khan, Professor Mick McKeown.
• Suntosh Kaur. PhD student (2021). Race in Research: The contribution of Women of Colour to HE (and Race). Supervisors: Dr John Wainwright.

Dr Hassan Awan

Dr Awan is a GP and Research Associate with Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE) and Campus Day Facilitator for UCLan’s 3rd year medical students. His research interests include health inequality, particularly of vulnerable populations, community mental health. He is also undertaking a part-time Wellcome PhD exploring emotional distress in South Asian males with long term conditions. Clinically, Dr Awan works as a GP at the Robert Darbishire Practice, a diverse GP Practice in inner-city Manchester.