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- Position:Associate Lecturer and Diversity ＆ Community Projects
- Telephone:+44117 965 6261
- Email:Roger.Griffith@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I am a part-time associate lecturer at UWE Bristol in the College of Arts, Technology and the Environment reporting to Lynn Barlow Assistant Vice-Chancellor Creative and Cultural Industries Engagement. I also have a wide-ranging brief to engage communities and support and promote the student experience. Before I began lecturing, I was Executive Chair at the awarding winning Ujima Radio CIC radio station working to create real-life work experiences such as at St Pauls Carnival working with Caribbean elders and the Black & Green project with University of Bristol's Cabot Institute and Bristol Green Partnership. Today I deliver specialist guest lectures on a range of subjects to provide an inclusive learning experience. My specialist area is within the Creative Writing teams but because of my journey and being a life-long learning champion I have delivered a range of lectures on all aspects of the arts, education, business skills, the environment, sport, nursing, history and more, engaging my passions of equity, equalities, diversity and inclusion, social justice and race equality.
My pedagogical specialisms centre around the Windrush experience and what it can teach us about identity, contribution and migration through the generations following the publication of my first book My American Odyssey: From The Windrush to the White House in 2015.
Area of expertise
Roger Griffith MBE is a writer, social activist, creative producer and former Executive Chair and Broadcaster of Ujima Radio an award-winning community radio station. After leaving school without qualifications he became a positive action trainee with CEED rising through the ranks to Senior Manager in an 18-year career with Bristol City Council. He has a passion for sharing cultural stories, global observations and insights on race, inclusivity and social inequality. He has been delivering diversity training for over 30 years and is an advocate of life-long learning. Roger is the CEO of his social enterprise and consultancy Creative Connex CIC. In 2018 he was awarded the Bristol Lord Mayor's Medal for his community and voluntary work in race equality an MBE in 2020 and in 2022 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Arts.
I have written a number of articles, blogs, essays, poems published in the following publications.
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