Runnymede Academic Fora: End Racism This Generation.

Runnymede学术论坛成立于2005年，是研究种族平等问题的学者之间进行知识交流和合作的空间。该论坛是Runnymede信托基金工作的一部分，该基金四十多年来一直处于以政策为重点的研究和种族平等思想领导的前沿。论坛的目的是将不同学科和研究领域的研究人员聚集在一起，促进对话，确定新出现的关切领域，传播研究成果，并编写出版物和在政策竞技场中采取干预措施。该论坛是唯一一个以种族平等问题为重点的全国性学术网络，迄今为止，该论坛非常成功地在政策竞技场和公共辩论中提出了一些关键的干预措施-例如，围绕白色工人阶级、混血、刑事司法和帮派问题。该论坛目前由来自英国各地的80名学者组成，主要集中在社会科学领域。目前的研究网络提案旨在建立和扩展现有的网络，以塑造目前围绕英国种族平等的辩论。这些问题具有关键意义，因为英国的人口结构不断变化，在紧缩时代，一系列政策领域的种族多样性和不平等现象持续增加，在政策和政治层面解决种族不平等问题的沉默越来越多。研究网络将使论坛能够以五种新的方式扩展：1）扩大论坛的学科重点，增加艺术和人文学科的参与，并促进这些领域的工作在公共和政策竞技场的传播; 2）在英国主要城市举行论坛会议，以增加非伦敦学者的参与，解决关键的区域和地方问题，与当地国家和第三部门团体合作; 3）发展新学者的相关网络，包括研究合作，传播和出版，以及新研究人员的培训和指导系统; 4）帮助发展和支持研究种族和民族问题的博士生全国网络，包括年度全国会议; 5）开发一个网站，将新的研究成果带给广大的利益相关者和感兴趣的受众，并为学者，研究人员，政策制定者，社区团体和学生提供新研究的资源库6）促进与学术机构和第三部门团体的国际联系，首先是在美国，探索不同国家、文化和历史背景下的相似性和差异，促进研究和传播方面的国际合作。

The Runnymede Academic Forum has been established since 2005, as a space for knowledge exchange and collaboration between academics working on issues of race equality. The Forum forms part of the work of the Runnymede Trust, which has been at the forefront of policy-focused research and thought leadership in race equality for over forty years. The aim of the forum is to bring together researchers from different disciplines and areas of research to foster dialogue, to identify emerging areas of concern, to disseminate research findings and to generate publications and interventions into the policy arena. The Forum is the only national academic network focused on issues of race equality, and to date has been very successful in producing some key interventions into the policy arena and public debate - for example around the white working class, mixed race, criminal justice and gangs. The Forum currently comprises 80 academics from across the UK, predominantly concentrated in the social sciences. The current research network proposal aims to build on and extend this existing network, to shape the current debates around race equality in the UK. These issues are of key significance given the changing demographics of the UK, evidence of continued and increasing racial diversity and inequality across a range of policy areas in an age of austerity, and the increasing silence around tackling racial inequality at the level of policy and politics. The research network would enable the Forum to extend in five new ways: 1) to expand the disciplinary focus of the Forum, to increase participation from the Arts and Humanities and facilitate the dissemination of work from these areas into the public and policy arena; 2) to hold forum meetings in key cities around the UK to increase participation from non-London based academics, to address key regional and local issues, and engage with local state and third sector groups; 3) to develop a related network of new scholars, including research collaboration, dissemination and publication, and a training and mentoring system for new researchers; 4) to help develop and support a national network of doctoral students working on race and ethnicity, including an annual national conference; 5) to develop a website bringing new research to a broad audience of stakeholders and interested audiences, and provde a resource bank of new research for academics, researchers, policymakers, community groups, and students 6) to foster international links with academic institutions and third sector groups, initially in the US, to explore similarities and differences in different national, cultural and historical contexts, and promote international collaboration in research and dissemination.