Jason Arday on racial inequality in higher education

Portrait of a Londoner is a South-East London based podcast and in this mini-series we will be talking to people who live in London about racism within the UK education system. In this episode we speak to Jason Arday who is an assistant professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Durham https://www.dur.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile/?id=18558 Jason is also a trustee of the Runnymede Trust the UK’s leading race equality think tank https://www.runnymedetrust.org/ We discuss racial inequality in higher education, the pressures faced by black academics in the UK, his childhood in South London and his experiences of growing up with global development delay and Asperger's (or high functioning autism).