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Award-winning journalist Angela Saini will join us to talk about the findings in her latest book Superior: The Return of Race Science where she explores the concepts of race and caste from their origins to the present day using an interdisciplinary lens.

The 2021 Faculty of Health and Medicine’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Forum poses the question ‘What would anti-racist health research look like?’ Award-winning journalist Angela Saini will join us to talk about the findings in her latest book Superior: The Return of Race Science where she explores the concepts of race and caste from their origins to the present day using an interdisciplinary lens.

We’re delighted that Angela is able to contribute to this year’s forum and hope that it will inspire us to take positive and practical steps forwards with race equality.

This event will take place online through Microsoft Teams. To register please go to the LibCal event site.

The Faculty of Health and Medicine’s annual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Forum aims to stimulate and provide space for conversations for those interested in working collaboratively to develop practical solutions to promote and enhance equality, diversity and inclusion in our working environment.

Angela Saini is an independent British science journalist and author. She presents radio and television programmes on the BBC and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Sunday Times, Prospect, New Scientist, New Humanist and Wired among others. She has won a number of national and international journalism awards.

Her two-part documentary series for BBC Four about the history and science of eugenics aired in autumn 2019, and was a pick of the day in many national newspapers. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was published in summer 2019 by 4th Estate and Beacon Press to widespread critical acclaim, and has been named a book of the year by Financial Times, Guardian, The Telegraph and Sunday Times among many others. Her previous book, Inferior: How Science got Women Wrong was published in 2017 and has been translated into eleven languages.

Angela's top-rated new podcast series with the Institute of Physics Looking Glass explores how science needs to change to become fairer, more reliable and more representative in the future. Featuring interviews with top thinkers on subjects from climate change to cancel culture.

For more information, Angela’s website is: www.angelasaini.co.uk