果冻影院

Saffron鈥檚 work centres on the intersections of gender, 'race鈥� and class in (South) Asian community activism in 1970s Britain. She combines archival research and Oral History, and is also currently conducting interviews for the Wellcome-funded Body, Self, Family project at Essex University. Saffron鈥檚 doctoral research is informed by her undergraduate interest in the impact of empire and decolonisation 鈥榓t home鈥� and her MPhil research into the relationships between popular memory, public history and collective identity formation. This research is supported by an AHRC scholarship from the London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

PhD

厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤:听Michael Collins (primary) and Andrew Flinn (secondary)
Working title:听Indian Workers鈥� Associations, Southall Black Sisters and 鈥淏lack鈥� Politics in 1970s Britain

Expected completion date:听2022

Papers and presentations

• 鈥淔ront room publications鈥�, Black politics and gender in 1970s Southall鈥�, Britain at Home and Abroad, Institute of Historical Research, December 2020
• 鈥業ndian Workers鈥� Associations, Black politics and gender鈥�, 果冻影院 Gender and Feminism Research Network PhD Talkgroup, January 2020
• 鈥楽outhallResists40: Remembering anticolonial resistance in twenty-first century Britain鈥�, 鈥楻eframing Empire鈥�, Centre for Public History Annual Conference, Queen鈥檚 University Belfast, December 2019
• 鈥楬istorians and the UCU Strike: community action in postwar Britain鈥檚 racialised migrant communities鈥�, Department of History Teach Out, 果冻影院, Nov 2019
• 鈥楽olidarity and Intolerance: The Indian Workers鈥� Association in 1970s Britain鈥�, 鈥楥an鈥檛 We All Just Get Along?鈥�: Tolerance versus Persecution, History Lab Annual Conference, Institute of Historical Research, June 2019
• 鈥楻emembering decolonisation in twenty-first century Britain鈥�, Difficult Heritage: Making Sense of Uncomfortable Histories, The Bar Convent, York, April 2018 听

Other

• Conference Convenor, IHR History Lab
• Conference Convenor, Antiracism in Britain: histories and trajectories
• PGTA Representative, 果冻影院-UCU听
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