Our first event was a webinar scheduled for 21 March 2023 – as this is the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination. It seemed like a great time to launch the network and Professors Ilina Singh and Keisha S. Ray had accepted our invitation to speak. However, as the UCU strike action is ongoing, we made the decision to cancel the event and arrange an alternative.
In lieu of the webinar, we’re organising a limited series of podcasts exploring “power and privilege in academia”, and we are seeking input from the 100+ people that registered for the webinar, to ask them what questions they would have liked to ask during the Q&A on this theme. We plan to collate the questions into a topic guide and then conduct five podcasts. This approach feels more “bottom up” and we like the idea of a series of conversations addressing this broad topic, rather than lectures/webinars.
Each podcast will be led by one of the BBB co-founders, and it will be in conversation with two academics working in bioethics. We are grateful to be supported by Oxford Podcasts, and hope to release this podcast series in 2024.