Rob is also a senior adviser to the British Council and a member of the Commission on 2020 Public Services.

Rob's publications include ‘Right to Divide? Faith Schools and Community Cohesion’ (2008) ‘Identity, Ethnic Diversity and Community Cohesion’ (Sage: London 2007), ‘Britain; challenges for race equality’ (2006) and ‘Connecting British Hindus’ (2006).

Prior to working at Runnymede, she worked for the UK Office of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (now known as the EU Fundamental Rights Agency) Sarah is currently on the Board of the European Network Against Racism based in Brussels. Her area of expertise is anti-racism and equality in the European Union.

Debbie’s upcoming publications include a re-examination of race equality and school exclusions and an assessment of current policy surrounding widening participation in higher education.

Previously Debbie has conducted research for both Runnymede and Nottingham Trent University on projects exploring the reasons for the gap in achievement between children from different minority ethnic communities, together with projects identifying ways of improving BME pupil achievement and work exploring the disproportionate rates of school exclusion experienced by African-Caribbean boys.

Debbie has worked as an associate lecturer for the Open University, teaching social psychology and criminology and her doctorate work explored young black female identity. Debbie’s additional research interests include work on ‘race’ and girlhood, young parenting and black popular culture.

Debbie holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Essex, a Phd is Social Psychology/Sociology from Nottingham Trent University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from City University.

Omar has also published many articles and reports on political theory and British political history for Runnymede over the past eight years and has spoken on topics including multiculturalism, integration, socio-economic disadvantage, and positive action. These include giving evidence to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, academic conferences in Manchester, Oxford, Paris, and Warsaw, the CRE Race Convention, the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights, a Treasury/DFID conference on remittances, St George’s House (Windsor Castle), Wilton Park, and many other engagements in the UK and Europe.

Omar completed his DPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Masters in South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Jessica is currently a standing committee member of the UK Vietnamese Network and acts as advisor to the Thai Language and Culture School, Bournemouth. Aside from race equality and qualitative research methods, her areas of expertise are integration policy and practice of new migrants, Vietnamese and Thai ethnic minorities in the UK and mixed race studies.

Jessica holds a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and an MSc in Nationalism and Ethnicity from the London School of Economics.

Kjartan has conducted extensive research into small, less visible minority ethnic communities, race equality in criminal justice, and migration.

He has previously conducted research on youth offending in south London for the Probation Service, and strategies of adaptation of adolescent immigrants in Iceland for the Ministry of Education (Iceland).

Kjartan’s latest publications are A Tale of Two Englands: ‘Race’ and Violent Crime in the Press; Who Cares about the White Working Class?; and Making a Contribution: New Migrants and Belonging in Multi-Ethnic Britain.

Before joining Runnymede in April 2009, Phil was a residential volunteer at Toynbee Hall, working in the Research and Evaluation team. He was also a campaigns volunteer on the Need NOT Greed campaign on welfare reform.

Phil holds a BSc in Geography from Queen’s University Belfast and an MSc in Human Geography (by Research) from the University of Edinburgh.

Vastiana has a BA Hons degree in Modern Languages (French and Russian) from Oxford University and has previously worked in publishing (Ward Lock, Mitchell Beazley, Writers and Readers Ltd) and as Editor, African-Caribbean Programmes for BBC Television.

While at Heinemann, Robin worked with Runnymede and the Radical Statistics Group to produce Britain’s Black Population. At SAGE, he worked with the Institute of Race Relations to publish regular issues of Race & Class and SAGE Race Relations Abstracts.

I also currently work with the National Association for Youth Justice on the Youth Justice journal; with Napo, the Trade Union and Professional Association for Family Court and Probation Staff on the Probation Journal; and the with International Institute for Environment and Development on the Environment & Urbanization journal.

Robin holds a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick.

Before beginning her role at Runnymede in 2009, Nina was working in the women's sector, running the media campaign for Million Women Rise and writing for the Women's Resource Centre's magazine.

Nina holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Italian from the University of Manchester and NCTJ qualifications in News Writing, Media Law, Shorthand and Public Affairs.

Previously, Colin has worked on brand launch within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector in Mexico.

Colin holds a BA (Hons) in Media Studies and English Literature and an Executive MBA

She has also worked as an intern for Sadiq Khan MP while completing an MSc in Social Policy at the London School of Economics.

Vicki also holds a BA in Intellectual History and English Literature from the University of Sussex.

Klara’s other research interests include education and race equality, research methods with children and young people from diverse backgrounds, and the Roma community.

In the past, she has been involved with refugee community organisations, including education support and impact evaluation research.

Klara holds a BA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester and an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, for which she conducted research into teaching about forced migration and promoting community cohesion in schools.

Before joining Runnymede, Kam worked as an intelligence analyst providing research consultancy; he produced reports for the Royal Society of the Arts 2020 Public Services Trust, The Young Foundation and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. He has also worked in India investigating child labour and sanitation in the slums of Jaipur.

Kam holds a BA in Modern History from Oxford University and an MA in African and Asian History from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Riffat is also a practising artist and filmmaker with her own work spreading across video, film, photography, installation and performance.

Riffat has a wealth of experience working within the film and art industry and facilitated two other video projects set up by Runnymede and Manifesta: Video Art Postcards and Belonging. She has also set up independent arts workshops in London and Algeria.

Riffat holds a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

Julie holds a BSc in Sociology and an MSC in Social Research from the University of Surrey. Prior to joining ICAR Julie worked on an resarch project at the University of Surrey

Jacob holds an MSc with the Open University in Social Science Research Methods. His dissertation consisted of a case study in migration and economic restructuring in London in the 1990s.

Prior to studying for his master's degree, Jacob taught on the translation programme at the University of Antioquia in Colombia.

Gabriela has fieldwork experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods, particularly in design, analysis and implementation of in-depth interviews, group discussions, participant observation and documentary research. She has volunteered in various NGOs both in Venezuela and the UK and has advocacy experience in education rights.

Gabriela holds an MA in Human Rights from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.