1st Edition
Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in Higher Education Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Part 1
Chapter 1: Introduction
Julia Morgan, Hazel Marsh, and Colin Clark
Chapter 2: Reflections on Romani Historiography: From Nationalist Myths to Historical Counter-Narratives
Thomas Acton
Chapter 3: Academic-Community Partnerships in Romani and Traveller Studies
Andrew Ryder
Chapter 4: Racism, racialisation and whiteness: Gypsies and Travellers in the social fiction of race
Steve Garner
Chapter 5: Surviving the System? Experiences in Primary and Secondary Education
Paula Hamilton
Part 2
Chapter 6: Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers and the Neo-Liberal University
Chelsea Mac Donnchadha
Chapter 7: From Fairgrounds to Fair Access: One Showman’s Experience of University and Beyond
Shelby Holmes
Chapter 8: Roma in Higher Education in Europe
Iulius Rostas and Diana Aburas
Chapter 9: From the Ghetto to a Russell Group University: A Roma Man’s Journey Through Education and Financial Struggle
David Kandrac
Chapter 10: Breaking the Generational Curses
Laura Janova
Chapter 11: Betwixt and between institutional and ‘on the ground’ perspectives in GTRSB ‘widening participation’
Natalie Forster, Christina Cooper, and Martin Gallagher
Chapter 12: Reflections on Higher Education
Esther Stubbs
Chapter 13: Internal and external stakeholders: who and what counts in increasing GTRSB university participation?
David Smith
Chapter 14: Decolonising the University Curriculum and Valuing Community Cultural Wealth
Hazel Marsh, Allison Hulmes, Jane Peacock, and Julia Morgan
Chapter 15: Mainstreaming decolonisation for those of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller heritage: Working towards a whole University approach
Jeanette Ashton, Tommy Buck, Emily Danvers, Chris Derbyshire, Eloise Goodman-Thompson, Beth Harri-Lirette, Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Katherine Kruger, Sarah Law, Amy McGourty, Shannon Phillips, Roberta Piazza, David Ruebain, and Debra Vice-Holt
Chapter 16: My journey into and through Higher Education
Roseann Black
Chapter 17: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students in distance education
Caroline Derry, Elaine McPherson, and Andrew Potter
Chapter 18: Hiding in plain sight: A Romany woman in STEM
Marie Bowers
Chapter 19: Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Student experiences of UK Careers Guidance and Employability Programmes
Elisabeth Davies, Nicola Hay, and Colin Clark
Chapter 20: Travelling into History
Patrick McDonagh
Chapter 21:Reflections on Graduating and Career Opportunities: The Higher Education Journey of a Romani Woman
Tanja Jovanovic
Chapter 22: Conclusion
Colin Clark, Julia Morgan, and Hazel Marsh
Biography
Julia Morgan is a SFHEA and Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellbeing at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is Deputy Director of the UBEL ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership and EDI lead.
Hazel Marsh is Professor of Cultural Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research is interdisciplinary, and focuses on issues concerning social justice, the politics of representation, community action, education, health and environmental inequalities, and Romani and Traveller contributions to society.
Colin Clark is Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.
