Dear Gurnham

I recently completed a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring as a black mature female categorised as under-represented in HE. 

My study explored the HE experiences of non-traditional students and the role of coaching in supporting them during their undergraduate studies. I was able to draw on my own experiences as a non-traditional student as part of the Heuristic Inquiry.

Please find attached a presentation of my research that I delivered last month at the 17th Annual Coaching and Mentoring Research Conference. It will give you a brief overview of the findings.

I am also in the process of submitting a paper for the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring.  I am happy to discuss my research further and to share the findings with you in more detail if this is of interest

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Kind regards

Dr Dionne Spencer
Head of Student Casework | Student Casework Office| Academic Quality and Student Administration 
London Metropolitan University | Room T2-20 |Tower Building | 
166-220 Holloway Road | London N7 8DB

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 17:04, Gurnam Singh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Colleagues

 

At Coventry we have developed a peer mentoring using a blended approach and we are seeing to avoid it being simply another resource accessed by students who may already be advantaged; the research suggests that this tends to happen. What we want to achieve is maximum participation of disadvantaged students, particularly with the BAME and Disabled students without slipping into deficit modelling. Does anybody have any thoughts or examples of good practice and/or research on this?

 

With thanks

 

Gurnam

 

Dr Gurnam Singh (PhD, FRSA, NTF)

Associate Professor of Equity (PT), Office of Teaching and Learning

Coventry University, Priory Street, COVENTRY, CV1 5FB

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Associate Professor of Sociology (Hon), University of Warwick.

Visiting Professor of Social Work, University of Chester

Visiting Fellow in Race and Education, University of the Arts, London.

 

"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves “naturally” elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves (p14).” (C.Wright Mills, (1956/2000) The Power Elite, Oxford) 

 

Recent and forthcoming publications:

 

Singh, G (2020) Decolonising pedagogy and e learning: challenges and possibilities. NERUPI/Bath University. 17/18 September 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cvfQwrZd2NU8hGq4qXX4YFlhT6Tjk4Gl/view

 

Singh, G (2020)  Now you see me, now you don’t! Making sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) experience of UK Higher Education: one person’s story, in, The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography, Parsons, Julie M., Chappell, Anne (Eds.). London, Palgrave Macmillan

 

Singh, G (2020)  Supporting Black, Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) students during the COVID-19 crisis.

Blog Post, 15th April 2020, Shades of Noir. Available at: http://shadesofnoir.org.uk/supporting-black-asian-minority-ethnic-bame-students-during-the-covid-19-crisis/

 

Singh, G and Masocha, S (Eds) (2020) Anti-Racist Social Work Practice: International Perspectives. London, Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Singh, G (2020) Kartar Singh Sarabha: The student leader who changed the course of history. Malaysia, Asia Samachar. 3rd March 2020. https://asiasamachar.com/2020/03/03/30036/

 

Singh, G (2020) The Case for Panjabi Ethnicity. Malaysia, Asia Samachar. 16th Jan 2020  https://asiasamachar.com/2020/01/16/29140/

 

Hadwin, D., Singh, G., and Cowden, S (2020) Working with Unaccompanied Minors, Chapter 17, in J, Parker and S. A., Crabtree (Eds) Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and Practice Perspectives (Volume I). Bristol,  Policy Press.

 

Hadwin, D., Gizani, H., Singh, G (2020) Working with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors, Chapter 19, in, J, Parker (ed) Introducing Social Work. London, Sage/Learning Matters.

 

Singh, G (2019) Anti-oppressive Social Work, Neoliberalism and Neoeugenics, in, M, Lavalette and I Ferguson, What is the future of social work?: Austerity, welfare transformations and alternative futures. Bristol, Policy Press

 

 

 

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