Black bodies on cobbled streets - Understanding the experiences of Black British students at elite universities in the UK

英国黑人（包括多种族黑人学生）在英国精英高等教育机构中的代表性不足，这些机构仍然保持着相当的种族同质性。然而，越来越多的媒体关注凸显了校园中的种族主义。有一个缺乏社会学研究集中在精英高等教育机构的黑人英国学生的经验，虽然有在这方面的研究有所增长，因此，拟议的研究将旨在平台的声音和经验的黑人英国学生和批判性地探索体制和文化机制，框他们的大学经历。该研究旨在通过叙事和空间镜头，了解和探索英国黑人学生在精英，种族同质，大学的经历。定性的方法将被用来做这件事。叙事访谈将探讨他们的经验，通过敌意和韧性的主题，在现有的文献中概述，重点是了解英国黑人学生在精英大学的经验的异质性。它还将探讨盟友关系的看法。这将与民族志步行采访，这将寻求了解英国黑人学生如何浏览精英大学环境。这些方法将通过分析性的自我民族志来丰富，以更好地解决我作为一个在精英大学学习的英国黑人学生的立场，研究在精英大学学习的英国黑人学生。拟议的研究不仅是及时的，在2020年BLM运动之后，而且有能力代表学院在非殖民化方面所做的承诺。

Black British (including Black multi-ethnic students) are underrepresented at elitehigher education institutions in the UK, which remain fairly ethnically homogenous.Yet increasing media attention spotlights the racism on campus. There is a paucityof sociological research focused on the experiences of Black British students at elitehigher education institutions, although there has been a growth in this area of study.The proposed research will thus aim platform the voices and experiences of BlackBritish students and critically explore the institutional and cultural mechanisms thatframe their university experience. The research aims to understand and explore theexperiences of Black British students at elite, ethnically homogenous, universities,through narrative and spatial lenses. Qualitative methods will be employed to dothis. Narrative interviews will explore their experiences through the themes ofhostility and resilience, as outlined in existing literature, with a focus onunderstanding the heterogeneity of the Black British student experience at eliteuniversities. It will also explore perceptions of allyship. This will be supplementedwith ethnographic walking interviews, which will seek to understand how BlackBritish students navigate the elite university environment. These methods will beenriched by an analytical autoethnography, to better address my positionality as aBlack British student studying at an elite university, researching Black Britishstudents studying at elite universities. The proposed research is not only timely, inthe wake of the 2020 BLM movement, but also has the ability to be representativeof pledges made by the academy in regard to decolonising.