Online, Friday, 27 October 3.30-4.30pm
The Black Farmers Market was created as a restorative space in celebration of the cultural and historical communal atmosphere of Brixton. It supports local growers and new businesses, to reach new customers and audiences, and to work with experienced traders and business experts to achieve success. At this online event the founders of the Black Farmers Market, Aisha Jade and Natasha Pencil, and the Kenyan Pig Farmer Flavian Obeiro talked through their experiences starting and being part of the market. Inclusivity lies at the heart of the AFN Network+. We want to ensure everyone feels welcome and valued, and we actively pursue diversity within our Community of Practice. During Black History Month, we want to raise awareness of the experience of those of black heritage within the agri-food system. In this blog post, Professor Angelina Sanderson Bellamy, one of the co-Leads of the AFN Network+, shares her experience and the need to include a wide range of voices at the table. This blog comes to you in recognition of Black History Month, a really important dynamic to recognise. I’m a black female academic and I’ve been asked on several occasions what it’s like to be a black woman within academia. It’s a difficult question to answer because I only have my own experience to which I can relate. However, what I can say is that even from my earliest school years, from reception upward, I never once had a black teacher. At university, I never had a black professor. I never had a black mentor; someone who I could look up to and see as an example of what I could achieve as a black person. On entering academia, I had no black colleagues. I didn’t collaborate with any black academics in other universities because there are so few black academics within academia. It wasn’t until I started working at UWE Bristol two years ago that I finally had other black colleagues. The impact for me has been quite important. I've found I am no longer the only individual within the department who is looked to, to carry the EDI flag. I have other colleagues who have been working really, really hard around the challenge of increasing representation within academia. I no longer have to carry that burden alone. Instead of pushing the boulder by myself up the hill, I can get behind them and help them push the boulder, that they’ve already been pushing for years before I arrived, and that’s a significant relief for me. The AFN Network+ is recruiting for its Early Career Researchers (ECR) Board. Appointment is for a one-year period, from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.
The board will consist of ECRs with interests and expertise from across the food system. We strive to compose a board that is balanced across gender, diversity of food system expertise, university representation and ethnicity. Embedded pastoral care for ECR team members is crucial to support a culture of inclusivity within the AFN Network+. ECRs will be mentored by senior team members and will be embedded in Champion activities. The ECR Board Chair will be involved in monthly management meetings to support integration of ECRs across network activities and creation of opportunities for ECRs to develop confidence in transdisciplinary research through debate and discussion and bespoke skills-development workshops. Space will be made within the network for ECRs to meet and discuss important network issues, as well as co-lead funded network activities and projects. The ECR board will be self-organised with a Board Chair. Each ECR will be allocated £2000/year to use at their discretion to best support career development (this can be used for e.g. travel, engagement, running activities, training). The ECR Board Chair will receive and additional £4000 (ie, £6000 in total) for similar purposes. Travel and subsistence for AFN Network+ activities is also included. The ECR Board will participate in training workshops on co-production and co-design and use these skills when designing and running network activities. Applications are now closed. |
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