Dr Temidayo Eseonu

Lecturer in Politics and Policy

Profile

I am interested in the struggle for racial justice and the means through which this can be achieved, focusing particularly on the interplay of the politics of race and participatory and deliberative processes. I use new institutionalism as an analytical framework for what facilitates or constrains the design and implementation of racially just policies.

I engage with transformational and emancipatory concepts in social sciences to clarify and theorize about the processes—both intellectual and material—through which political actors (racially minoritised communities, policymakers, service providers and so forth) form, function within, replicate, dissolve, and restructure political worlds. My research places emphasis on deliberative and participatory processes which cultivate spaces for the 'voice-of-colour' to imagine a racially just world and the politics to influence the implementation of racially just policies.

I am also the founding convenor of the Racial Equity in Policy Network, a network for policymakers in the UK interested in addressing racial inequalities. Policymaker is defined in the broadest sense, from those who develop policy to those who implement policy.

I am open to supervising PhD students with similar research interests.

Healing in the system research report launch
Participation in conference - Public

Review of commissioned research
Expert Opinion

Belonging game workshop
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Belonging game workshop
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Expert advice
Expert Opinion

Deliberation and underrepresented groups
Participation in conference - Academic

Knowledge Exchange Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Rebecca Freeth
Hosting Charity Organisations

Polycrisis and Human Vulnerability
Participation in conference - Public

Changemakers: Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising
Invited talk

Politics and International Relations Research Seminar
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Politics and International Relations Research Seminar
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Symposium on Making Our Own Table: African Theatre and Performance in the UK,
Invited talk

Athena SWAN (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Towards a relational and equitable future for public services?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Lancashire Voices: The Devolution Question
Participation in conference - Public

Decolonial listening as a deliberative quality
Invited talk

Breaking the Radio Silence: Understanding how the rise of racism in Britain undermines global solidarity
Invited talk

The Hospital in 2125: Imagining Healthcare Futures (Festival of Social Sciences 2025)
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Service evaluation
Expert Opinion

Meg Guy
Hosting Charity Organisations

Sciencewise (UKRI and Department of Science, Technology and Innovation) (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Devolution in practice: from Whitehall to Lancashire
Participation in conference - Public

Understanding Lancashire Devolution
Participation in conference - Public

Devolution, democracy and the VCSE sector
Invited talk

International Political Science Association
Participation in conference - Academic

Afrofuturist storytelling: anti-racist praxis in community reporting
Invited talk

Spirals Of Inclusive Curriculum Design: Diversity Of Leadership, Thinking And Voice
Invited talk

Law School Assisted Dying Bill Policy Event
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Changing the narrative: equity in human learning systems
Expert Opinion

INSPIRE Project Policy Roundtable
Other

Political Studies Association Conference
Participation in conference - Academic

Liberatory Leadership
Invited talk

Convention of the North Fringe Event
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Ethics Values and Policy Initiative Public Lecture
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Politics Vising Speaker Seminar
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Our House (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Associate Fellow, Institute of Public Policy Research
Expert Opinion

Volunteer, Ella Baker School of Organising
Charity

QAA Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Expert interview
Expert Opinion

National Centre for Research Methods: MethodsCon 2024: Futures
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
School Engagement

Campus in the City 2024
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Political Studies Association
Participation in conference - Academic

Intercontinental Conversations: Ethics, Values, and Public life - Religion and Reparations
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Social Justice, Racial Justice and Other Charming UK Fairytales
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Lancashire Citizens (External organisation)
Membership of committee

The Humanity Project (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Top Tips for Academics wanting to do Engagement
Invited talk

Unifrog.org
School Engagement

Racial Equity in Policy Network
Symposium

Royal Society of Arts - Urban Futures Commission
Other

The GM Mayor and the VCSE Sector A hustings
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Involve (External organisation)
Membership of board

Richard Chapman Prize
Prize (including medals and awards)

President's Distinguished Achievement Award (University of Manchester)
Prize (including medals and awards)

Emmanuel Adeyemi-Abere

Emmanuel Adeyemi-Abere

PhD student

  • Ethics Values and Policy Initiative