Is international business a new form of imperialism?
Introduction: Modern imperialism in the last three centuries refers to the expansion of European public and private wealth by means of...
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- Apr 28
- 6 min
'By any means necessary': strategies for racial equality in UK universities
I'm for anybody who's for equality. I'm not for anybody who tells me to sit around and wait for mine. Malcolm X. INTRODUCTION In...
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docrob900
- Mar 30
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Institutional racism: what do we mean?
DB Roberts INTRODUCTION Last year, a movie recounted the killing of a Black boy in Tennessee in 1955, in retaliation for his flippancy...
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docrob900
- Mar 28
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What the heck is decolonization?
Or, 'deconfusing' decoloniality. Introduction In a March 2023 internal, unpublished survey of undergraduate students at Loughborough...
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docrob900
- Dec 8, 2022
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Tales from the Ivory Tower, No. 6 of 6
The Colour-Power Matrix: how institutional racism is preserved and perpetuated in UK universities DB Roberts Introduction I've referred...
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docrob900
- Dec 5, 2022
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Tales from the Ivory Towers, No. 5 of 6
Institutional racism illustrated: how an HR department helped USMT downplay, deny and cover up a racist EDI committee DB Roberts...
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docrob900
- Dec 3, 2022
- 8 min
Tales from the Ivory Towers, No. 4 of 6
A Colour-Power Matrix in evidence. Or, how power and collusion pervert authenticity DB Roberts Introduction The previous blog post...
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docrob900
- Dec 1, 2022
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Tales from the Ivory Towers, No. 3 of 6
What the numbers say about racial power in UK universities DB Roberts This research project, undertaken in 2022 at Loughborough...
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docrob900
- Dec 1, 2022
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Tales from the Ivory Towers, No. 2 of 6
Institutional racism in UK universities DB Roberts What is Institutional Racism ? I dislike self-indulgent introductory rambles, so I’ll...
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docrob900
- Dec 1, 2022
- 9 min
Tales from the Ivory Towers, No. 1 of 6
How and why the Ivory struggles with institutional racism DB Roberts It wasn't just two White men with a gun that night. It was every...
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docrob900
- Nov 26, 2022
- 7 min
The delusion of racial tolerance in the UK
The greatest trick the devil ever played, was making us believe he doesn't exist - The Usual Suspects A Very British Notion Britain has...
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docrob900
- Nov 7, 2022
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Entitlement: the highest stage of Liberalism
More than a century ago, VI Lenin published an epochal work called Imperialism: the highest form of Capitalism. He perhaps couldn't have...
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docrob900
- Sep 28, 2022
- 14 min
The Race Equality Charter: no country for White Men?
A giant boot, with a label showing corporate involvement, crushing ordinary people. Involves Corporate Social Responsibility.
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docrob900
- Jun 20, 2021
- 19 min
BLACK DAVID, WHITE GOLIATH
Recollections of a racial past in a racist present DB Roberts FOREWORD I need you to understand two things when you read this note....
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docrob900
- Jun 20, 2021
- 16 min
EDI: A SEAT AT THE TABLE, NOT CRUMBS FROM THE FLOOR
DB Roberts Racism and discrimination are structural; approaches to EDI must be too When I was a kid in 1970s Northern England, there was...
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docrob900
- Jun 20, 2021
- 9 min
BEING CANUTE: UNIVERSITY RESISTANCE TO A BETTER WAY OF TEACHING
DB Roberts In other blog posts, I have made a number of arguments advancing the use of images in teaching and learning. These arguments...
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docrob900
- Jun 20, 2021
- 4 min
HOFSTEDE'S SIMPLICITY, OR REAL WORLD COMPLEXITY?
DB Roberts Throughout the time I have taught in a British Business and Management Studies university department, I have never understood...
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docrob900
- Jun 20, 2021
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Covid-19 and the next great pedagogic transformation
DB Roberts Because disease forced distance upon us, universities embraced the need to provide services remotely. It was transformative....
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- Jun 20, 2021
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OUR BRAINS ARE MULTIMEDIA. ALL OUR TEACHING SHOULD BE TOO
DB Roberts Probably everyone’s experienced at some time ‘Death by PowerPoint’: a presentation that, rather than engaging your attention,...
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docrob900
- Jun 20, 2021
- 10 min
DYSLEXIA AND MULTIMEDIA LEARNING
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)DB Roberts This article is published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education in 2021 INTRODUCTION It should come as no surprise...
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