Who is Dr. X?
I am a former basketball Division 1 athlete, professional player, and coach. The long journey of learning from successes and delays in progression overtime made me realise basketball would only take me so far. I had to ask the critical question; how could I use basketball to set me up later in life? I was fortunate enough to receive a full sports scholarship and earn my PhD in Sociology and Social Policy at Durham University (England) studying racism, racial inclusion, Intersectionality, and Whiteness. For my American viewers, YES!! You can do a postgraduate and play sports at the university and professional level in England. On this journey I have become a growing anti-discriminatory activist championing love, unity, and self-defence.
Scholarly work
Absence & Presence: The Six Racism-in-Education-Processes ('the 6 REP') [Jones, C. | (in press) Journal, Equity in Education & Society] https://doi.org/10.1177/27526461241254493
The right to higher education: Tracing good and emerging practices on the RTHE around the world [Jones, C. & Boliver, V. January 2023] https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384293
Same storm, different boats: the impact of COVID-19 on Black students and academic staff in UK and US higher education [Arday, J. & Jones, C. October 2022 | in press] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-022-00939-0
PHD Thesis: Flippin’ the Script: Student Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Inclusion in Higher Education [Jones, C. August 2022 | completed] https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14538/
PhD extension on quantitative data: Students’ perceptions of racial diversity and inclusion in UK universities. Submitted to Whiteness and Education. [Jones, C. & Boliver, V. | (under review) Journal, Taylor & Francis - British Journal of Sociology of Education]
This is my Flippin’ the Script Framework symbol where I’ve amalgamated two African social and political ideologies which is love and unity.
Bi Nka Bi is an Early West African Adinkra symbol meaning ‘Nobody should bite another’. Stemming from Ma’at principles of justice, freedom, forgiveness, unity, harmony, peace, and the avoidance of conflict or strife.