
Dr Saffron East
Lecturer in Global Cultures Education
Research interests
- Culture
- Education
- History
Contact details
Pronouns
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Biography
I am a historian of education, identities and social movements. Before King’s, I was a Research Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. I did my AHRC-funded PhD on Antiracism in Southall at University College London. I have taught on Black and Asian Britain, race and ethnicity at the University of Cambridge and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Research interests and PhD supervision
- Modern and contemporary Britain (C20th and 21st)
- Intersections of race and class and gender
- Radical pedagogies and political education
Selected publications
- ''The "post-decolonial" moment? Radical pedagogies in UK Higher Education in historical perspective', Education, antiracism and decoloniality: Tensions, resistances, and possibilities, special issue of Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 70 (2025)
- 'South Asian political Blackness in Britain: Lessons and limitations of anti-racist solidarity' in Saffron East, Grace Redhead and Theo Williams (eds.), Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present (MUP, 2024)