MaCTRI (MEaP Academy Community Training & Research Institute)
Research Supervision
PhD Supervision
Decolonising Human Rights – Exploring the decoloniality of human rights organisations by deconstructing the Eurocentric universality of what is “human” and what its “rights” are. (Joseph Oladosu, MaSPP)
Decolonising Systemic Constellation in the UK – Reclaiming its spiritual Zulu roots and examining its Eurocentric colonisation as a psychodynamic group therapy technique. (Stuart Taylor, MaSPP)
Decolonising Community Enterprise – rediscovering pre-colonial African Diaspora cooperative economics and reimagining them in the 21st century for local grassroots regeneration. (Yvonne Witter, MaSPP)
Awareness, Knowledge and Attitudes to the Risk and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: An Ethnographic study of African and Caribbean Experiences in an Urban Area
Final title: Decolonising Health Inequalities: Uncovering the hidden factors behind biological models of Caribbean and African health outcomes in Greater Manchester (Faye Bruce, MMU)
Master’s Supervision
Perceptions of social inclusion and wellbeing for community volunteers (Nina Kaaba-Jones, MMU and MEaP, Community Partner)
Federal University of the Amazon (UFAM)
Master’s Supervision
Memories, the everyday and stories: Patterns of a black identity under construction (Andreza Costa, UFAM)
The Socio-political production of suffering in context of a urban occupation (Bruno Vasconcelos, UFAM)
Manchester Metropolitan University
Popular Songwriting L5 and L6 (BA (Hons) in Popular Music)
I taught and was Unit Leader on the L5 and L6 Popular songwriting units of the BA (Hons) Popular Music degree.
- Topics taught: Multiculturalism and race in a British Context, Disco and Queer Studies, Hip Hop, Urbanism and Black Consciousness, Pop and Female representation: Black Feminism, Post Modernism, Intertextuality: Kanye West, Bourdieu, Baudrillard and Foucault
- I was responsible for course delivery and design.
BA (Hons) Community Practices and Arts Network
- I have also contributed to the writing, programme leadership and the quality assurance procedures for our Community Practices Foundation Year programme (Draft Course Development Plan) and our new BA (Hons) Community Practices and Arts Network (Programme Specifications) degree and accompanying marketing strategy. Both new programmes were informed and driven by my community arts research and enterprise.
- I have also taught on the previous BA (Hons) Community Arts degree.
For all teaching documents, see here.
For my FHEA/PGCAP academic practice portfolio, see here.
Projects
Golden Music Awards: (2012)
- As part of our Faculty Centenary 2012 celebrations, I organised The Golden Music Awards, which were designed to showcase the best songwriting talent from L6 Popular songwriting.
- The finalists were profiled on local radio with the winner obtaining a cash prize, inclusion on a local radio station’s play rotation and a gig at a local band venue.
For more information, see here.
Oxford Brookes University
Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Educational Practice (PG CAEP): Creative Partnerships and Creative Practice
- I wrote and taught this programme that was derived from my work on the Creative Partnerships’ National Competency Framework
For more information on the programme, see here.