We are delighted to invite delegates to the second edition of Holding the Space: Shining a Light on Black Academics - a conference created to centre Black scholarship, research, intellectual community, and collective futures.
Last year, over one hundred scholars, practitioners, and students came together to share research, lived experience, and sector hopes. The energy, care and intellectual depth of that day is still with many delegates today, and you can see it in the video above.
In a sector where Black knowledge is too often marginalised, minimised or extracted, Holding the Space exists to do something different:
to hold space for rigour, creativity, healing and excellence.
Holding the Space 2026
📅 16 April 2026, 09:30-16:30
University of Westminster, Regents Street Campus
🎓 Theme: Black Scholarship, Global Futures
This year’s sub-themes invite us to look forward in the areas of:
Education, Pedagogy and Curriculum Innovation;
Career Progression and Leadership;
Race, Equity and Social Justice;
Health, Wellbeing and Social Care;
Intersectional Experience in the Academy.
🎟️ Places are limited. We would love to welcome you back - or to this space for the first time.
🔗 Tickets and full details: available here
Sponsored by CETI, University of Westminster
Sponsored and supported by GEMWA and Black History Year (BHY)
