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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prior to joining Runnymede, Vicki worked for Lexington Communications - a public affairs and PR consultancy – where she provided political and communications advice to the private sector and local authorities. Vicki holds an MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics.

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.

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