Davies, Chantal

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       This work has been submitted to ChesterRep – the University of Chester’s online research repository    http://chesterrep.openrepository.com   Author(s): Chantal Davies   Title: Racing through the maze of categorisation: An exploration of concerns around categorisation when researching the minority ethnic student experience within higher education   Date: March 2015   Originally given at: 21st Century Academic Forum Conference    Example citation: Davies, C. (2015, March). Racing through the maze of categorisation: An exploration of concerns around categorisation when researching the minority ethnic student experience within higher education. Unpublished presentation given at 21st Century Academic Forum Conference at Harvard University, 17-18 March 2015.  Version of item: Given at conference    Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/347424  RACING THROUGH THE MAZE OF CATEGORISATION: AN EXPLORATION OF CONCERNS AROUND CATEGORISATION WHEN RESEARCHING THE MINORITY ETHNIC STUDENT EXPERIENCE WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATIONDr Chantal Davies (Director Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chester)OBJECTIVES•Background and theoretical context•Concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’•Generic classifications•Pan‐ethnic labels and specific categorisation• Imposed/self‐classification• Implications for educational researchBackground and Theoretical Context•Thefundamentaldifficulties•The UK positionRace, ethnicity and the new multiculturalism• The ‘race’                ‘ethnicity’ trajectory (Smith, 2002; Warmington, 2009)•Development of ‘multi‐cultural’ education in the UK.• The ‘diasporic concept’ (Anthias, 1998; Gilroy, 1997)Discourse on general terminology and the politicisation and decline of the ‘black’ collective• Problematic collective terminology;• The decline of ‘black’ as acceptable collective terminology in the UK;• The Asian perspective (Modood, 1997);• Ethnocentricity and setting ‘white’ as the norm (Aspinall, 2009; Cousin, 2002).Pan‐ethnic labels and specific categorisation• Pan‐ethnic terminology;• The difficulty with the pan‐ethnic approach;• Reliance of the 2011 Census categories in the UK;• The potential collapse of classification (Aspinall, 2009).Imposed/self‐classification• The need for self‐identification (Burton et al, 2010; Smith, 2002);• The need for interaction between self‐classicationand categorical ascription (Modood, 2002; Cole, 2003; Nazroo & Karlsen, 2003)Implications for educational research• The need to explore challenge within the research process (Finlay, 2002);• Need to explore ethnicity as a variable and context dependent aspect of life (Nazroo & Karlsen, 2003);• Willingness to ‘race wrestle’ as part of the research process (Pollock, 2004).WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @EqualityFREDLinkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Forum‐Research‐into‐Equality‐Diversity‐7417440?trk=my_groups‐b‐grp‐vFacebook:ww.facebook.com/forumforresearchintoequalityanddiversityWebsite: www.chester.ac.uk/FREDEmail: FRED@chester.ac.uk orchantal.davies@chester.ac.ukREFERENCES

Racing through the maze of categorisation: An exploration of concerns around categorisation when researching the minority ethnic student experience within higher education

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