Policy Recommendations and Updates

Policy Briefings

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Post Lockdown Impact on Black Children and Vulnerable Learners: Roundtable discussion, 27.5.20

Leadership and excellence through education in a globalised world

Academic Lead: Dr Onette D Clennon

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Linked to Research:

An Ethnographic Study into the educational experiences of the Mancunian Children of the Windrush Generation

Researching sustainable Black Queer communities and resilient community development via community Self-organising

An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

Community-led Black History Month and Black History in Leeds

An Appreciative Inquiry into African and African Caribbean Studio Schools and their local impact on community regeneration

Measuring the impact of cultural heritage teaching on BAME supplementary school pupils’ aspirations to study in Higher Education

To the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent towards its midterm review report on the UN International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024

Academic Leads (Drafting team): Dr Michael McEachrane, Dr Ornette Clennon, Elsie Gayle, Shaban Jah and Constance de la Vega

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Linked to Research:

An Ethnographic Study into the educational experiences of the Mancunian Children of the Windrush Generation

Researching sustainable Black Queer communities and resilient community development via community Self-organising

An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

Community-led Black History Month and Black History in Leeds

An Appreciative Inquiry into African and African Caribbean Studio Schools and their local impact on community regeneration

Measuring the impact of cultural heritage teaching on BAME supplementary school pupils’ aspirations to study in Higher Education

24th session of the Working Group WGEPAD (OHCHR), 25-29 March 2019, Geneva

Academic Lead: Dr Onette D Clennon

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Linked to Research:

An Ethnographic Study into the educational experiences of the Mancunian Children of the Windrush Generation

Researching sustainable Black Queer communities and resilient community development via community Self-organising

An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

Community-led Black History Month and Black History in Leeds

An Appreciative Inquiry into African and African Caribbean Studio Schools and their local impact on community regeneration

Measuring the impact of cultural heritage teaching on BAME supplementary school pupils’ aspirations to study in Higher Education

EU Commission Report, “Being Black in Europe”: Policy Development

EU Fundamental Rights ➡️ #HumanRights

Academic Leads: Dr Michael McEachrane and Dr Ornette D Clennon with Esther Mamadou (ENPAD)

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Linked to Research:

An Ethnographic Study into the educational experiences of the Mancunian Children of the Windrush Generation

Researching sustainable Black Queer communities and resilient community development via community Self-organising

An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

Community-led Black History Month and Black History in Leeds

An Appreciative Inquiry into African and African Caribbean Studio Schools and their local impact on community regeneration

Measuring the impact of cultural heritage teaching on BAME supplementary school pupils’ aspirations to study in Higher Education

Manchester Supplementary School Network (MSSN) Policy Brief: Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper

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Academic Lead: Dr Ornette D Clennon and Jan Bradburn (Manchester City Council)

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Linked to Research: Making Education a Priority (MEaP): Pedagogic research in action

Proposal for the United Nations WGEPAD 20th session, “Leaving no one behind, people of African descent and the Sustainable Development Goals”, 3-7 April 2017, UPDATED

Academic Leads: Dr Michael McEachraneDr Ornette D Clennon, Professor Robbie Shilliam and Esther Ojulari

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For the United Nations General Assembly UPDATE, please read here.

The proposal for action to recognise the structural legacies of colonialism that we submitted to The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD) was successfully incorporated into their draft recommendations, which will be published by the Human Rights Council in Geneva, later this year.

Our proposal can be read here.

Our WGEPAD presentation can be read here.

20th Session of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD) Draft Conclusions and Recommendations can be read here.

Linked to Research:

An Ethnographic Study into the educational experiences of the Mancunian Children of the Windrush Generation

Researching sustainable Black Queer communities and resilient community development via community Self-organising

An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

Community-led Black History Month and Black History in Leeds

An Appreciative Inquiry into African and African Caribbean Studio Schools and their local impact on community regeneration

Measuring the impact of cultural heritage teaching on BAME supplementary school pupils’ aspirations to study in Higher Education

Draft Interim Faith Group Audit informing Memorandum of Understanding between GM Health and Social Care Partnership and GM Faith Groups

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Academic Lead: Faye Bruce

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Linked to Research: An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

Proposed Regulation of Supplementary Schools: A Government Consultation

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Academic Lead: Dr Ornette D Clennon

The Department for Education called for evidence to inform the development of the government’s proposals for requiring certain out-of-school education settings to register and be subject to risk-based inspections.

In my advisory work with the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE), I have been involved in shaping NRCSE’s response to this latest consultation exercise.

Linked to Research: Making Education a Priority (MEaP)

Making Education a Priority (MEaP): A Manchester Metropolitan University collaboration with local supplementary schools

Academic Lead: Dr Ornette D Clennon

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national RSA Report on Supplementary Schools cites our research into supplementary schools

Linked to Research: Making Education a Priority (MEaP)

Evaluation Learning Workshop Report for Pioneers and System Leadership Pilots: National Collaboration for Integrated Care and Support (Public Health England)

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Linked to Research: An Ethnographic Appreciative Inquiry to establish the development of Health and Wellbeing Hubs within Caribbean and African Faith Organisations

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