Publications include ‘Home Alone: Unaccompanied Minor Return to Somaliland’ (2010), ‘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), and the film ‘Number Games; Race Equality in the Big Society’ (2011).

Omar is the author of Financial Inclusion and Ethnicity; Who Pays to Access Cash?; Why Do Assets Matter?; and The Costs of ‘Returning’ Home

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 United Nations in Geneva, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, 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.

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.

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.

He also works 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.

As well as working for Social Services and the NHS, Duncan has spent time working in effective programming and child safeguarding at Save the Children, and worked out in Kenya with Action for Children in Conflict, where he helped co-ordinate an education programme for street children in Thika.

Outside of work, Duncan loves football and is a season ticket holder at Norwich City Football Club. His favourite food is jam (any flavour) and he has helped set up a charity for orphaned and abandoned children in Kabahango, Uganda, called Kabahango Orphans.

Most recently she worked at the National Children’s Bureau within the social inclusion department and, as part of her role, worked with the policy team in the Department for Education.

Ojeaku holds a BSc in Politics from Southampton University and an MA in Political Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Florence has over 10 years' experience of working in local and national government, providing strategic support and leading on campaigns. She worked on the 2005 General Election Campaign as a Regional Organiser with particular responsibility for the campaign in target key seat, leading on community events and political engagement programmes for high profile ministers, including the Prime Minister and Chancellor.  She also worked for a Member of Parliament as part of a close knit team, working with key government departments and advisors.

In 2008, she worked on the historic election campaign for Barack Obama in the key battle state of Columbus, Ohio.