Table of Contents
Foreword - Jason Arday and Wayne A. Mitchell
Introduction: Black PhD Journeys in Context - William Ackah
Part 1: The ‘Weighted’, Waiting Game: Being Black and Applying To Do a PhD - Wayne A Mitchell
1. Underrepresented and Undervalued: My Reflections on School, University and the Doctoral Application Process - Sophie Martin
2. Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: Getting into a PhD Programme - Katty Wadda
3. What I Wish I Knew: Deciding on when to Pursure the PhD - Esther Osarfo-Mensah
4. The Long and Winding Road: Tackling Barriers and Prejudice on the Journey to PhD Study - Sigourney Bonner
5. Ignorance Is Not Bliss: What Every Potential Black PhD Science Student Needs to Know - Jason Amartey
6. Being One of the Few Amongst the Many: My Journey to the PhD Starting Point - Nina Higson-Sweeney
7. Making the Garments Fit: Transitions to a Better Place - Dwaynica Greaves
Part 2: Being Black Is Not an Optional Luxury! Struggles for Rights and Recognition in the White Academic Space - Madina Wane
8. Studying Whilst Black: Reflections on Researching Blackness in White Space – Alanah Mortlock
9. Through, Around or Over the Gate? Navigating Academia from a Black Muslim Woman's Perspective - Amira Samatar
10. Fighting the Power: Challenging the Institutional Discrimination – A Personal Perspective - Hanna Akalu
11. The Missing Ones
Part 3: For Us, by Us: Finding One Another Amidst the Storm - Jacqueline Darkwa
12. That Ain’t It, So We’ll Create It: Supporting Black Students When and Where Our Institutions Fail - De-Shaine Murray
13. Finding the Black Immunologists in a Pandemic - Madina Wane
14. In the Meantime: Creating Change Through Community - Paulette Williams
15. Networks, Networking and Finding My Place in the Academic Space - Deyl Djama
16. #BlackInTheIvory: Social Media as a Tool for Racial Healing - Louisa Brotherson
17. Unravelling the Tapestry of Unspoken Rules: Living with Being Different in the Academic Space - Mary Agyapong
18. Making Space for Black Voices and Black Visions: The Formation and Work of the African Diaspora Postgraduate Network - William Ackah
Part 4: Academic Support: The Right Thing, in the Right Place, at the Right Time – De-Shaine Murray
19. Reaching Beyond the Horizon - Simone Webb
20. In and Out of Prison - Angela Charles
21. Not in This Alone: Being Supported to Break Down Barriers to PhD Success - Peggy Warren
22. When Seasons Change: Dealing with a Change in my Situation While Studying for a PhD - Rees Johnson
23. Believing That the Impossible Is Possible: My Story of Being Supported to Succeed - Clíona Kelly
Part 5: Reflections at the Completion of the PhD Journey - Madina Wane
24. What It Means To Be the First: My Journey from Windrush to PhD - Julia Morris
25. Why the ‘P’ in PhD Stands for (Black) Power - April-Louise Pennant
26. (Un)Making the Imposter Syndrome - Barbara Adewumi
27. I Came All This Way for This?! An International Student's Experience of UK Higher Education – Anon
Conclusion and Recommendations - De-Shaine Murray
Our Ancestor’s Wildest Dreams … (Fictionalisation) - Jacqueline Darkwa
Afterword: For Our Community - De-Shaine Murray