Equality Research and Consulting Ltd.
Royal Holloway Enterprise, Orchard Building
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
ph: 01932 561320
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About Us
June Jackson
June Jackson is Managing Director of Equality Research and Consultancy Ltd, a university spin-out company of Royal Holloway, University of London. She provides consultancy and carries out applied research on equality and diversity for a wide range of organisations. Recent work has included being the lead consultant for analysis of equality monitoring data and for the research to contribute to the development of an Integrated Equality Scheme for the British Council. She has carried out research into black and minority ethnic professionals in the construction industry, for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; women in science, engineering and technology for the University of Oxford; and on women soldiers and officers in the British Army. She is co-author, with Professor Ansari, of Managing Cultural Diversity at Work. June is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Humayun Ansari
Humayun Ansari is Professor of the History of Islam and Cultural Diversity, Department of History, Director of the Centre for Minority Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and Academic Advisor to Equality Research and Consulting Ltd. He lectures and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Departments of History and Social and Political Science. He has conducted research and provided consultancy and training in the field of ethnic minority issues and equal opportunities for a range of organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors, including government departments and agencies, the health sector, the police, the probation service, further and higher education, and within industry and commerce. He has acted as adviser on ethnic minority issues to the Chief Constable of Hampshire Police, to the Judicial Studies Board, and as a consultant to the National Police Staff College at Bramshill. In 2004, he was appointed Special Advisor on the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee on Terrorism and Community Relations. As the interface between Muslims and the Western world has not yet been fully explored, there has been an increase in interest in this issue in the public arena and Professor Ansari has provided briefings to senior policy-makers at the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and the Crown Prosecution Service. He has lectured at the Royal United Services Institute, the Defence Academy and the Security Service and has contributed extensively to local, national and international print and broadcast media. Professor Ansari is a historian of Islam and ethnic minorities in South Asia and the West. His academic research embraces ethnicity, identity, migration, multiculturalism and Islamophobia. He has written extensively on the subject of Muslims in Western society, cultural diversity and cross-cultural issues. He is author of 'The Infidel Within', Muslims in Britain Since 1800, The Emergence of Socialist Thought Among North Indian Muslims (1917-1947) and co-author of Managing Cultural Diversity At Work. Professor Ansari was awarded an OBE in 2002 for his services to higher education and race relations in the community.
Amir Aujla
Amir Aujla is an Equality and Diversity Consultant who works on projects with Equality Research and Consulting Ltd. (she was previously a staff member of the Equal Opportunities Consultancy Group at Royal Holloway, University of London). Amir has led institutional equality audits for City University, for the National Weights and Measures Laboratory, and has provided consultancy on equality and diversity for a number of public organisations. Most recently she has worked on the development of online learning materials for use by the British Council global workforce. She was lead researcher for a study into racial harassment in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This involved collaboration with a multi-agency forum addressing harassment. In assessing the nature and extent of harassment in the culturally diverse Royal Borough, people from both the public and the voluntary sectors were interviewed as key informants.
Rashida Baig
Rashida Baig works with Social Services as a Day Care Advisor. She is experienced in the development of appropriate ethnically sensitive services in a multicultural setting, in particular in relation to family services. She is an associate with the National Children’s Bureau and a Registered Nursery Inspector with OFSTED.
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Marco Cinnirella
Marco Cinnirella is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London. Marco has taught research methodologies on the College’s Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Diversity, and advises on quantitative and qualitative methodology and analysis for our research and consultancy projects. He has worked with us on equality and diversity consultancy projects in the College, and with Equality Research and Consulting Ltd, as an Associate. Most recently, he has worked on equality monitoring of staff in the public sector, and the evaluation of the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration. He advises the team on research and evaluation methodologies, plus analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. His research interests are: Social psychological approaches to national identity (esp. British); social psychology of European integration; intergroup relations, prejudice and stereotyping; social-psychological aspects of Islamophobic prejudice; social-psychological aspects of ethnic identity; computer-mediated-communication, group dynamics and identity.
Vandana Desai
Vandana Desai is a Research Associate with Equality Research and Consulting Ltd and is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography. Her principal research interests are: non-governmental organisation and civil society; community participation; low-income housing for the urban poor; impact of globalisation and economic liberalisation on gender and the elderly; urban poverty, survival strategies and livelihoods. She has extensive experience of working with grassroot organisations in developing countries and has carried out research funded by DFID and the British Academy on "Effectiveness of Urban NGOs". She was Link Co-ordinator to the British Council Higher Education Link Scheme with Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal, India on "Promoting microlevel enterprises among women" from April 2000 - April 2003. She was a regular book reviewer for the Times Higher Education Supplement from 1994 to 2003 and a reviewer and assessor for the Open University’s course on Development Studies for 2000-2001. She is a member of the advisory board on the journal "Progress in Development Studies" and of the Advisory Council of the Development Education Association. In addition, she is a referee for DFID, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project proposals and evaluations of research projects. She is also a referee for various academic journals in Geography, Politics and Development Studies. She is the editor of two of the leading texts in development studies Companion to Development Studies (Hodder Arnold 2002) and Doing Development Research (Sage 2006).
Chris Howorth
Chris Howorth is Senior Lecturer in Organisational Strategy in the School of Management and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences and Director of External and Executive Programmes. His research interests are: Equality and Diversity, International Health Systems Analysis, Health Care Financing and Management, Executive Teams and Change Management, Airline Industry Strategy.
Frank Keating
Frank Keating is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care and Programme Director MSc in Social Work. He teaches on both undergraduate and post-graduate qualifying Social Work programmes. His research interests are:
- social inequalities in mental health, particularly the areas of 'race' and ethnicity
- black-led voluntary sector services in mental health abuse in mental health services.
He was the lead researcher for a major review of mental health services for African and Caribbean communities published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (Breaking Circles of Fear: A review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities). As a result of this work Frank served on one of the National Boards that oversees the implementation of the Department of Health's National Programme for Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Services. Frank has recently completed a literature synthesis for the NHS Service Delivery Organisation to identify research priorities for patient and carer-centred mental health services. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Holistic Health Care and Open Mind.
Kate Loewenthal
Kate Loewenthal is Professor of Psychology (Emeritus from October 2007). She has been a consultant to several projects examining equal opportunities issues and promoting diversity in a range of organisations: educational, corporate and civil service. Her own research has focused on religious and cultural aspects of mental health and mental service provision, and she has carried out a number of evaluations of community services in ethnic and religious minority groups, examining important dilemmas in the promotion of diversity. She is a trustee/governor of several bodies delivering mental health and educational services, in which diversity issues are salient. She was one of the organisers of the British PsychologicalSociety-funded seminar series on Terrorism and Martyrdom, and has authored many articles and several books (most recently, Religion, Culture and Mental Health: Cambridge University Press, 2007). She is an editor of the journal Mental Health, Religion and Culture, and acted as a consultant in the development of the Arts & Humanities Research Council/Economic and Research Council joint programme on Religion and Society, and is now a member of the commissioning panel for this programme, and for the forthcoming Youth and Religion programme.
Viola Nzira
Viola Nzira is an Associate Consultant with Equality Research and Consulting Ltd. Her specific areas of experience include organisational behaviour; management development; and equal opportunities consultancy. Her PhD research, which she is due to complete in 2008, is on business entrepreneurship amongst women in Zimbabwe. Viola is a qualified nurse and midwife with career experience as a health practitioner and manager. She is also a lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Reading and has in the past worked as a Senior Executive Officer for the Commission for Racial Equality. She is a board member for Oxfordshire Befriending Network, a service that aims to improve the quality of life of people with life-threatening illness. She is the author of a new textbook Anti-Oppressive Practice in Health and Social Care due for publication in 2008.
Robin Oakley
Robin Oakley works as an independent consultant specialising in assisting public authorities and NGOs to address issues of racism and ethnic relations. He has been active in this field for more than thirty years, and has written widely on the subject. In Britain he has undertaken research, training and consultancy for a wide range of professional groups, public bodies and voluntary organisations, especially in fields such as policing and criminal justice, combating discrimination and racially-motivated violence, and promoting integration of minorities at the local level. He has also worked at European level on a variety of projects on discrimination and minority issues, covering both Western and Central/Eastern Europe (including Russia and the Balkans). He has regularly acted as a consultant for international bodies such as the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and the EU Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, and is the author of numerous European level reports and practical guidance documents. Dr Oakley is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Minority Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Royal Holloway Enterprise, Orchard Building
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
ph: 01932 561320
jjackson
