David Gillborn

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David Gillborn
Basic facts
Organization:	University of Birmingham School of Education
Role:	Emeritus Professor of Critical Race Studies & editor-in-chief of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education
Expertise:	Race inequalities in education
Education:	•Ph.D. University of Nottingham, 1987 •B.A. University of Nottingham, 1983
Website:	Official website

David Gillborn is a British legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, he was the Emeritus Professor of Critical Race Studies at the University of Birmingham School of Education and the editor-in-chief of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education. According to his faculty page on the University of Birmingham's website, Gillborn's areas of interest include race inequalities in education, especially the role of racism as a changing and complex characteristic of the system.

Career

Below is a summary of David Gillborn's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• Ph.D. University of Nottingham (1987)
• B.A. University of Nottingham (1983)

Professional positions and honors:

• Founding editor and editor-in-chief, Race Ethnicity and Education
• Editorial board member, British Journal of Sociology of Education
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Inclusive Education
• Editorial board member, Review of Educational Research
• Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by Professor Gillborn about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work. All of his publications can be found here.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
The Colour of Class: the Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes	Routledge (2015)
Racism and Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy?	Routledge (2008)
Rationing Education: Policy, Practice, Reform and Equity	Open University Press (2000)
"The White Bones of Policy: Structure, Agency and a Vulture’s-eye View with Critical Race Theory"	Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the Struggle for Social Justice: essays inspired by the work of Geoff Whitty (2020)
"Hiding in Plain Sight: Understanding and Addressing Whiteness and Colorblind Ideology in Education"	Kappa Delta Pi Record (2019)
"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Anti-Black Racism as Fluid, Relentless, Individual and Systemic"	Peabody Journal of Education (2018)
"QuantCrit: Education, Policy, ‘Big Data’ and Principles for a Critical Race Theory of Statistics"	Race Ethnicity and Education (2018)
"Dis/ability as White Property: Race, Class and ‘Special Education’ as a Racist Technology"	World Yearbook of Education 2017: Assessment Inequalities. (2017)
"Moving the Goalposts: Education Policy and 25 Years of the Black/White Achievement Gap"	British Educational Research Journal (2017)
"Softly, Softly: Genetics, Intelligence and the Hidden Racism of the New Geneism"	Journal of Education Policy (2016)

See also

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