Race and Mathematics Workshop
13 June 2024
10:45 to 17:00
King's College London
Bush House BH(S) 1.01
Bush House, Strand Campus, London
The Race and Mathematics workshop will explore various approaches to making mathematic more acceessible to ethnic minority mathematicians in the UK, and to making mathematics more accessible across the world.
This event is organised to coincide with the exhibition It All Adds Up: Global Discoveries in Mathematics funded by The Race Equity Inclusive Education Fund at King's.
Schedule
10:45-11:00
Welcome
11:00-11:30
Suzie Coates and Mumtaz Ayub (King's College London, UK)
A tale of two tribes: Developing the writing skills of international financial mathematics students
This talk will discuss the experience of creating mathematical writing classes targetted at Chinese students
on a masters in financial mathematics programme.
11:30-12:00
Sophie Rust (King's College London, UK)
Outreach activities to support Black school pupils into STEM and digital skills pathways
Sophie Rust coordinates two school outreach programmes at KCL
- Success for Black Engineers and Success for Digital Futures
– which have both received external funding to support Black school pupils into engineering and study and career
pathways involving digital skills. Sophie will talk about the aims of the outreach programmes, the challenges, and
the positive impact we have seen so far through evaluating the programmes.
12:00-12:30
John Armstrong (King's College London, UK)
Decolonizing mathematics and alternatives
This talk will describe the results of a literature review on decolonizing mathematics, which reveals
a strong influence of postmodern, and often anti-scientific scholarship.
12:30-13:30
Lunch break
13:30-14:30
Dr. Queensley C. Chukwudum (Department of Insurance and Risk Management, University of Uyo, Nigeria)
Dr. Chinwendu Madubueze (Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi,
Benue State, Nigeria
Dr. Jakperik Dioggban (Department of Biometry, CK Tedam University of Technology and Applied
Sciences, Ghana)
Access and Equity for African Mathematicians and Statisticians: Breaking Down Barriers
and Promoting Inclusion
A panel discussion on African experience in mathematics and statistics.
14:30-15:00
Saralees Nadarajah (Manchester, UK)
My work with Africans
Saralees will describe his charity EducateAfrica, the motivation for it and its work in Africa
15:30-15:30
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
Steve Eichorn (Bristol, UK)
Breaking Barriers to Black Academia: Understanding Racialised Barriers
to Equitable Research Funding
This talk will cover an introduction on where the project emerged from and the background and context to UK
HE and academia with respect to the underrepresentation of Black academics, in particular to research funding.
The results of a survey to over 500 Black academics in the STEM subjects will be presented, and then the follow
on workshops that were undertaken with some thoughts and reflections on the next steps.
16:30-17:00
Jane Hutton (Warwick, UK)
African Institutes of Mathematical Sciences
The six African Institutes of Mathematical Sciences are a network of Centres of Excellence for tertiary mathematical education and research. I will provide an overview of the origin and achievements. Several ways in which UK mathematicians can contribute to promoting mathematics and science in Africa, and enhance African initiatives in education, research, and
technology will be discussed.
Slides. Some links for those interested in getting involved: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, ESSA Africa, ISI Academy