Race Equity E-Hub

Rafter, J., Sangha, J. and Mano, I. (2024) ‘‘Where Have I Found Myself’? Exploring How Black Social Work Students Navigate Identities in School-Based Practice Learning’, The British Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae103.

Sangha, J. (2021) ‘What are the experiences of Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in relation to their progression on an undergraduate social work course in one university in England?’, Social Work Education, 41(8), pp. 1748-1767. http://10.0.4.56/02615479.2021.1960305.

Jas is an Associate Professor in Social Work and Race Equality Lead at Anglia Ruskin University. Jas has been teaching in Social Work since 2005, he supervises PhD students, and regularly supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking their Dissertation. In his role as Faculty Race Equality Lead, he led on the development of a shared understanding and implementation of their Race Equality Strategy. Jas qualified as a Social Worker in 1996 from Oxford Brookes University and actively maintains his registration.

Jas has undertaken research to understand the experiences of minority ethnic students in higher education and has published in this area. His research interests are higher education, social work studies, race and racism.

Gordon, R., Guha, M., & Nandagiri, R. (2024). Introduction: the future of teaching gender and development. Development in Practice, 34(7), 825–833. http://DOI:10.1080/09614524.2024.2395493.

Guha, M. (2018). 'Disrupting the 'life-cycle' of violence in social relations: recommendations for anti-trafficking interventions from an analysis of pathways out of sex work for women in Eastern India', Gender & Development, 26:1, 53-69. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13552074.2018.1429098.

Mirna is Deputy Head of School (History, International Relations, Politics, Philosophy, Sociology), Humanities and Social Sciences, and Senior Lecturer in Sociology. She is a political sociologist who researches everyday experiences of gender violence and social (in)justice within marginalised communities globally. Her teaching specialisms include feminist theory, social inequalities, and discourses and interventions on gender and development.

Mirna is a 2024 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Award winner for her Outstanding Civic Impact through Research and was 2023-2024 Faculty Race Equality Lead.

Drydakis, N., (2024, on-line first). Discrimination and Health Outcomes in England's black Communities Amid the Cost-Of-Living Crisis: Evaluating the Role of Inflation and Bank Rates. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Taylor and Francis Publishing. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/er-06-2021-0277/full/html.

Drydakis, N., Anna Paraskevopoulou and Vasiliki Bozani (2023). A Field Study of Age Discrimination in the Workplace: The Importance of Gender and Race‒Pay the Gap. Employee Relations, Emerald Publishing, 45(2): 304-327. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/er-06-2021-0277/full/html.

Nick Drydakis is a globally renowned researcher in labour economics. His contribution in the 2021 REF exercise was rated as ‘world-leading’. He authored four single-author papers, which were internationally recognized as world-leading at the ABS Level (4444). Additionally, his 2021 REF Impact Case Study was also rated as world-leading.