I am currently a primary school teacher in Newport, South Wales. My Fellowship will be investigating educational practices in New Zealand, centring around the Unteach Racism programme which is delivered by their General Teaching Council. I will be looking at barriers and enablers to converting policy into practice in New Zealand educational settings and what can be learnt for a UK context, with a particular focus on Wales�s ambition to be an anti-racist nation by 2030.

Throughout my career, I have worked at a school which has prioritised decolonising our curriculum and ensuring our school is anti-racist. I passionately believe that everybody deserves an equality of education and opportunities. With studies showing uneven and sometimes inadequate approaches to interpersonal pupil-on-pupil racism within schools, and 49% of young Black people feeling racism was their biggest barrier to success at school, I was curious to what other localities were doing to address challenges within their own education system.

Through my Fellowship, I hope to find new ways to approach the issue of racism through the UK education system.