I’m not sure if this has been circulated to crit-geog yet – apologies if so.

Rosie 

 

Dear Colleagues,

Please see below information about the appointment of a ‘race scientist’ at Cambridge and a link to an open letter. Apologies for cross posting.

 

 

 

Dr Reza Gholami

Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education

Deputy Head of Department

Programme Director for MA Education

Department of Education and Social Justice

School of Education

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston, Birmingham

B15 2TT, UK

 

Room: M13

Tel: 0121 414 2638

Skype: r.gholami44

University staff profile

 

Recent publications:

Gholami, R. (2019) “Citizenship and Education in an Age of Extremisms” (in) Peterson, A., Stahl, G. & Soong, H. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-67905-1_24-1

 

Gholami, R. & Sreberny, A. (2018) “Integration, Class and Secularism: the Marginalization of Shia Identities in the UK Iranian Diaspora,” Journal of Contemporary Islam. https://rdcu.be/7w1W

 

Panjwani, F., Revell, L., Gholami, R. & Diboll, M. (Eds.) Education and Extremisms: Re-Thinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World. 2018. London and New York: Routledge.

 

Gholami, R. (2017) “Beyond Myths of ‘Muslim Education’: A Case Study of Two Iranian Schools in London,” Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 566-579 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1352352

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Colleagues

 

Please consider signing this Open Letter registering concern about the recent appointment of a race pseudoscientist at the University of Cambridge.

 

I urge you to look at the background material below to assess for yourself the potentially serious consequences of legitimising pseudo science of this nature by association with the University of Cambridge.

 

Please read the letter here, and consider signing and sharing it widely: https://goo.gl/forms/mM3TRe1fd1UAxRqB3

 

Some background information:

Report on the London Conference on Intelligence (LCI): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/10/ucl-to-investigate-secret-eugenics-conference-held-on-campus

Background article in the Guardian on the revival of ‘race science’ in higher education: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science

The appointee’s page at OpenPsych online journal: https://openpsych.net/person/6

The appointee’s defence of his research and the LCI: https://medium.com/@NoahCarl/some-comments-on-the-rationalwiki-page-about-me-e889d98bb165

Rebuttal of the appointee’s work for the Adam Smith Institute: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/adam-smith-institute-lurch-left-report-flimsy-figures

 

 

The appointee’s papers

 

Ethnicity and electoral fraud in Britain (2017)

Human Rights: Why Countries Differ (2018)

Verbal intelligence is correlated with socially and economically liberal beliefs (2014)

How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes, and IQ can do Harm (2018):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324820585_How_Stifling_Debate_Around_Race_Genes_and_IQ_Can_Do_Harm

Generalized Trust and Intelligence in the United States (2014)

Does intelligence explain the association between generalized trust and economic development? (2014)

Does intelligence have a U-shaped relationship with leftism? (2015)

IQ And Socioeconomic Development Across Regions Of The Uk (2016)

Cognitive ability and political beliefs in the United States (2015)

Scientific literacy, optimism about science and conservatism (2016)

Cognitive ability and party identity in the United States (2014)

Can intelligence explain the overrepresentation of liberals and leftists in American academia? (2015)

IQ and socio-economic development across local authorities of the UK (2016)

Does Activism in Social Science Explain Conservatives’ Distrust of Scientists? (2018)

Lack of European Identity and the Failure of the Eurozone (2017)

 

 

 

 

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