• Antisemitism & Islamophobia research consortium

    ICR Director, Professor James Renton, and Steering Group members, Dr Abubakar Bello and Dr Anna Bussu, have won an Edge Hill Research Investment Fund (RIF) Networks grant. The grant supports the development of a consortium for their research project on antisemitism and Islamophobia as interconnected issues in the context of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Connecting Artificial…


  • Antiracism Film Club

    ICR member, Dr Heather Marshall, has won a grant from Edge Hill University’s EDI Innovation Fund to support her initiative of an Antiracism Film Club. The Club will be based in the Faculty of Education, and aims to establish a space for dialogue and learning among students and staff regarding urgent antiracism questions.


  • Britishness, Identity and Belonging in Education

    ICR member, Dr Shereen Shaw, has published a new book on Britishness in education with Springer Nature. Britishness, Identity and Belonging in Education seeks to address the ways in which changing discourses of Britishness and British Values both impact upon young people in their education and are expressed by them growing up in multicultural Britain,…


  • ‘Duel’ Obligation? Palestine in the Mandate years

    Online Conference, 29 March 2022 14.00-18.30 BST The British empire governed the newly constituted State of Palestine from the final years of the First World War until its ignominious departure in May 1948. This rule was legally constituted, and superintended, according to the Mandate awarded to Britain by the League of Nations. During these years,…


  • LiVE STREAMING “CENTRING RACE IN HISTORY”: OUR international conference

    LiVE STREAMING “CENTRING RACE IN HISTORY”: OUR international conference

    On 23-25 November 2020, the ICR’s annual conference will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel of our principal partner, MONITORacism magazine. With speakers from Asia, Africa, America and Europe, this is the first conference that explores how we can put race at the centre of history from ancient Mesopotamia to 21st century Europe. Find…