Dr Temidayo Eseonu

Lecturer in Politics and Policy

Profile

I am interested in the struggle for racial justice and the means through which this can be achieved, focusing particularly on the interplay of the politics of race and participatory and deliberative processes. I use new institutionalism as an analytical framework for what facilitates or constrains the design and implementation of racially just policies.

I engage with transformational and emancipatory concepts in social sciences to clarify and theorize about the processes—both intellectual and material—through which political actors (racially minoritised communities, policymakers, service providers and so forth) form, function within, replicate, dissolve, and restructure political worlds. My research places emphasis on deliberative and participatory processes which cultivate spaces for the 'voice-of-colour' to imagine a racially just world and the politics to influence the implementation of racially just policies.

I am also the founding convenor of the Racial Equity in Policy Network, a network for policymakers in the UK interested in addressing racial inequalities. Policymaker is defined in the broadest sense, from those who develop policy to those who implement policy.

I am open to supervising PhD students with similar research interests.


01/01/2025 → …
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01/07/2024 → 31/03/2025
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01/04/2024 → 31/03/2027
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01/10/2021 → 23/09/2024
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Prize (including medals and awards)

  • Ethics Values and Policy Initiative