The Black Researchers' Hub Symposium

05/02/2025 - 05/02/2025

9:30am - 3:30pm

zoom or Lakeview room ( colchester)

The Black Researchers' Hub Symposium is an event for postgraduate students and researchers featuring a range of presentations from fellow students and inspiring external speakers. This is an interdisciplinary event open to all students who identify as Black or as part of an ethnic minority group. You can register for the symposium through the Black Researchers' Hub platform which can be accessed through Gradintelligence: https://gradintel.com/index.php/en/

Speakers: 

Tash Koster-Thomas:  Tash is a leading Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker, and LGBTQ+ Activist who is driving the conversation forward. As a Black queer woman, Tash leverages her lived experience and identity to champion diversity and inclusion in both society and the workplace.

Nova Lorraine: Named one of the Most Inspirational Women of Web3 and AI, Nova Lorraine is an acclaimed Fashion Designer and Futurist. With 15+ years in fashion and media, Nova is renowned for her design prowess, and has been featured in Forbes, Inc, and Italian Vogue.

Dr Nick Makoha: Nick is a poet, playwright and entrepreneur,  winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry prize and the 2016 winner of the Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. 

 

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