Suki Haider

Dr Sukaina Haider (known as Suki) works for the Open University (OU) on projects that involve students in EDI.  For several years she has facilitated student-staff partnership projects to increase the belonging of traditionally marginalised groups. These have drawn on innovation and best practice in the sector by providing student partners with safe and empowering spaces to share their perspectives.

At the OU, Suki enables staff to recognise the educational value of the student voice to the production of inclusive curricula, by facilitating dynamic conversations between staff and their student partners. She also designs EDI training for the OU’s associate lecturers. She uses her experience as a first-generation graduate, racially-minoritised woman, and as a carer, to highlight barriers that limit inclusion. Her research interest is in decolonising histories of African enslavement.

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