Shirley Anne Tate is Professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK and Honorary Professor (Chair Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation) at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

Her area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, beauty, 'race' performativity and Caribbean decolonial studies while paying attention to the intersections of 'race' and gender. She has written widely on these topics.

In her talk, Tate dispels some of the myths surrounding the 'BPOC' Attainment Gap in UK Universities, and calls for an end to the disparate experiences of many 'BPOC' students. Professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx