Teaching and Learning Conference Sessions 2023

Dr Gurnam Singh is a freelance activist, citizen journalist, researcher, writer,  educator and social worker whose work is dedicated to highlighting and disrupting systems and mechanisms of power, privilege, violence, human suffering and inequity.

He holds several visiting posts, as Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, Fellow in Race and Education, at the University of Arts, London, and Professor of Social Work, at the University of Chester. In 2005 was awarded a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Warwick, in 2009, for his work on critical and inclusive pedagogy, he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF), and in 2018 Dr Singh was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). 

Dr Singh has published 4 books and 40 book chapters and peer-review journal articles and numerous monographs, research reports, conference papers, blogs, and newspaper articles on a wide range of issues related to social justice, higher education, and critical pedagogy.  

Dr Orkun Yetkili is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster, UK.

He is one of the BME Network research learning and development officers and a member of the Researcher Development Working Group at UoW. Orkun is interested in the broad field of group processes and intergroup relations. His research has investigated social psychology of deviance, impostorism, attachment, online disinformation and prejudice.  
  
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Dr Deborah Husbands is a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster.

As a Black Caribbean woman and 'first-generation' student, she has successfully navigated the hard path into higher education and leadership. Deborah is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is also a member of The Psychologist and Digest Editorial Advisory Committee.

Deborah is the Outreach Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster and works with schools and colleges to bridge the transition into higher education for school students, with a keen focus on improving access for racially-minoritised students. She also leads the Black History Year steering group, co-chairs the Black and Minority Ethnic Network at Westminster, and sits on university-level Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committees.

Deborah's research interests include exploring experiences of belonging and impostorism as well as deconstructing race, gender and ethnicity in under-represented groups using critical race theories to better understand marginality and oppression. 

Learn more about Deborah