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British universities are drivers of innovation, educators of future professionals, and multipliers of public EDI cultures. The CITHEI CDT’s core PhD projects therefore analyse the opportunities and barriers for culturally and socially diverse students, staff, and alumni across academic disciplines and services. 

The PhD projects will enhance understanding about how individuals, institutions, and governments can support the development of ethnic minorities’ full potential within and outside of the university and mitigate wider challenges to race equality goals and widening participation agendas.

There are three overarching research objectives of key conceptual and political importance:

• To examine individual perceptions and experiences of culturally and socially diverse students, staff, and alumni that may have encouraged or hindered their participation, inclusion, and belonging in British universities in relation to intersecting axes of sociocultural difference.

• To analyse the institutional-level and broader contextual barriers and opportunities to membership in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and careers of culturally and socially diverse groups of students, staff, and alumni in British universities.

• To understand how best-practice policies and strategies can inform, support, and promote more inclusive academic citizenship, understood as membership, recognition, and belonging of students, staff, and alumni in relation to British universities (Sümer, O’Conner, LeFeuvre 2020, 18).