Research and public engagement

Public history and geography

Online Audio slide show for Newspapers on Campaign! A new British Library and MLA Council  initiative that brings museums, archives and schools together to inspire young people into active citizenship, launched summer 2009. 

Creating ‘online digital learning objects for undergraduates’ from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society, Autumn 2009.

 Advisor and co-curator for the gallery London, Sugar and Slavery, Museum in Docklands 2006 - 2007.

Funding to support a short season of events to mark UCL’s reflection on 1807/2007, and to establish a new research centre, The Equiano Centre www.ucl.ac.uk/equianocentre UCL Futures, 2007.

Portraits, People and Abolition.  Gallery trail to highlight connections to the Slave Trade and its abolition in the images at the National Portrait Gallery, London, April 2006.                                         

www.npg.org.uk/learning/digital/history/abolition-of-slavery.

Geographies of Race and Labour 1880 – 1920.  A workshop bringing together geographers, historians and sociologists from throughout the UK, Research Development Fund, Department of Geography, UCL, March 2006.

Unlocking the Archives, Royal Geographical Society.  Research project to find Black and Asian sitters to form a part of National Lottery funded exhibition, Royal Geographical Society, March 2004.

 Diversity – Images of Black and Asian people in the National Portrait Gallery
A leaflet introducing the representation of Black and Asian Sitters in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery. National Portrait Gallery and the Hollick Trust, July 2003.

 Co-Curator Before Windrush: Images of Black and Asian Figures, 1890s-1930s
An exhibition of images taken from the National Portrait Gallery Collection. National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 September 2002 – 23 March 2003.

Research Study of Representations of ‘Ethnic Minorities’ in the NPG Collection
National Portrait Gallery, London and the Hollick Trust, January 2001.