Dr Teslim Bukoye’s recent publications (links below) highlight the University of Bath’s growing contribution to race equality and EDI implementation across UK higher education. At Bath, his REC leadership, working closely with colleagues in the Community and Inclusion team, Senior Management and the wider university community, contributed to the University’s Race Equality Charter Bronze award and continues to shape practical implementation through a focus on accountability, belonging and capability.
Extending this work beyond Bath, Dr Teslim Bukoye’s recent contributions to two significant sector-facing platforms, Advance HE and Times Higher Education, offer an important intervention in current national higher education debates on race equality and EDI implementation. Through these contributions, he positions “nudges” as a practical way of moving EDI from strategy into everyday institutional practice. Rather than relying on good intentions alone, the work shows how universities can use visible leadership attention, inclusive communication, routine prompts, embedded learning and feedback loops to make race equality more actionable, sustainable and institutionally embedded.
This contribution reflects a practical and collaborative approach to advancing race equality, demonstrating how Bath-based practice, together with an emerging REC leadership and practical guide, is supporting the delivery of our Race Equality Charter Bronze Priorities through simple, visible and repeatable practices that help translate race equality commitments into everyday inclusive action.
While this work marks important and ongoing progress, it also offers a timely reminder that race equality is sustained not by aspiration alone, but through the everyday decisions, practices and behaviours that shape university life.
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