Senior Fellows of the Higher Education Academy are qualified to the Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education. They lead or influence others' professional practice in higher education teaching in many different settings. Working with and through others (e.g. colleagues, peers, mentees, etc.) they operate to support, guide and initiate change or lead/influence enhancement of practice in a wide range of global contexts. Their contribution is effective, benefitting students and their learning experiences in a variety of ways.
They demonstrate a sustained record of leading or influencing the practice of those who teach and/or support high quality learning; demonstrating practice that is effective, inclusive and integrative across all pedagogic competencies; and practice that extends significantly beyond direct teaching and/or direct support for learning.
Advisory
National Standards Assessment Panel for Rape Crisis England and Wales (Member, 2020-2022, non-remunerated position)
BBC Board News Editorial Committee, Diversity & Inclusion Project. (Advisor, 2019-20)
Lloyds Bank, Commercial Banking, Inclusion and Diversity (Advisor, 2020)
National Institute for Health Research, Towards equitable commissioning for our multi-ethnic society: understanding and enhancing the critical utilisation of evidence by strategic commissioners and public health managers. (Advisory Group Member, 2010 -2011)
Public Education
"Professional, humble, powerful, authentic, informed. It’s rare to find such a combination in someone that is so accessible. I found Shona’s work to be insightful timely and hard-hitting. She is an engaging speaker, and she is not afraid to be honest. More than that, her honesty is backed by evidence and experience which makes it even more compelling. I always enjoy working with or listening to Shona."
Lindy-Ann Blaize Alfred, Director of the Centre for Teaching Excellence, Birmingham City University.
Doing good in blackface: a consuming story with Swiss black feminist activist and political theorist Noémi Michel. (2021) (co-convened with Gaspard Rey).
The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation with Canadian academic activists Ronald Cummings and Nalini Mohabir. (2021) (co-convened with Gaspard Rey).
How can white people talk about Race? Rawthmells Conversations, Royal Society for the Arts, London, 08.03.2019.
Extradition and the War on Terror. Roundtable discussion with Professor Jeanne Theorharris. Sponsored and co-organised with Brooklyn College of the City University of New York & No Separate Justice (http://noseparate-justice.org). Leeds Humanities Research Institute. 26.01.2015.
Extradition: the question of Citizenship in the War on Terror. Sponsored and co-organised with JUST West Yorkshire/Free Talha Ahsan Campaign, University of Bradford Union. 07.03.2014.
Working the Spaces of Power (Janet Newman, 2012) public seminar/book launch. Session Chair. Birkbeck College. 06.07.2012.
White is White right?: Changing, multicultural contexts. Leeds Café Psychologique. Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, Leeds. 24. 04.2012.
"what really impressed me about Shona in this workshop, I knew a little bit about critical race theory, but I hadn't really encountered an explicit focus on whiteness, especially in an Inclusion Conference context to date. That's what drew me to the workshop in the first place. And I think now we're in a culture where whiteness concepts are quite openly discussed and talked about and understood in the spirit that they meant but I think when Shona was doing it, especially in the context of this particular workshop that lexicon, that language, that literacy just wasn't there. So there was a lot of fragility, there was a lot of defensiveness. And the way that Shona managed that situation, managed that energy, was just with so much poise and dignity and criticality, she was very unapologetic, which, you know, hats off you Shona, I was so impressed. But then also, just standing tall, you know, in the face of it and saying, "No, actually, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is...". And trying to have a critical conversation. So I was just really drawn to that approach from Shona. And also just the content of the workshop was really interesting to me as well."
Javeria Kadijah Shah, Associate Director of the Centre for Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for the Discover Central Podcast.
Course team for CUSO Postgraduate Intensive on 'Critical Approaches to Power' L-R: Himadeep Muppidi, Rahel Khunz, Shona Hunter, Noémi Michel. Morges. Switzerland. 2012.
Courses
Based on my book Power, Politics and the Emotions: Impossible Governance
2021 Dortmund University, Germany. Department of Cultural Studies. Lecture on: The global colonial governmental politics of disappointment. On Fall Research Unit: Disappointment. Cultural Studies BA Cultural Studies
2014 University of Geneva, Switzerland. Conference Universitaire De Suisse Occidentale. 3-day intensive graduate level residentials with students from across Swiss universities study Political Science and InternationalRelations. They are delivered by internationally renowned academics. “Power Displaced” (Module II sur le pouvoir) introduces students to various “critical” approaches to power, including post structuralist, post/de-colonial, feminist, queer, affective and critical race and whiteness approaches. This workshop was co-delivered with Professor Himadeep Muppidi, Vasser College, USA. Session 1: Thinking relationally about power and governance. Session 2: Feminist Psychosocial approaches to analysing relational politics. Session 3: Developing a strategic approach to doing criticality in academic contexts
2011 Rhodes University, Discovery Centre for Health Journalism, South Africa.
X 2 3-hour workshops for BA Hons Health Care Journalism – Health care systems and policies
Based on my writing on Whiteness and Global Coloniality the edited collections on Reproducing and resisting whiteness in organisations, policies and places, and New Territories in Critical Whiteness Studies.
2012 University of Mannheim, Germany, Faculty of Philosophy. 3-day intensive graduate
level for students on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences programs Co-delivered with
Professor Sarah Heinz and Dr Mark Schmitt of Mannheim. Delivered as part of Baden- Württemberg
Federal Government funded project “The Colour of Power: Functions of Whiteness in Transcultural
Encounters in Ireland since 1990”.
2010-2013 World Universities Network Postgraduate Research Digital Master Class Series
Collaborative distance learning PGT/R webinar provision. Core participating institutions. University of Cape Town (SA), University of Sydney (Au), University of Madison Wisconsin (USA), Massey University (NZ), University of Southampton (UK).
Seminar 10 Critical Race Pedagogy, 04. 03.2013.
Seminar 9 Race and the 2012 US Presidential Election: The Morning After, 07.11.2012.
Seminar 8 Neoliberal whitenesses, white recuperation and CWS, 26.07.2012.
Seminar 7 Encountering Racism Down Under: Antipodean perspectives on the construction of tolerance and white sovereignty, 23.04.2012
Seminar 6 Race, religion and the ‘Other’ in the making of European identity, 27.10.2011.
Seminar 5 Ontological and Epistemic Whiteness, 22.08.2011.
Seminar 4 Visual Regimes of Terror and Critical Whiteness Studies, 12.05.2011.
Seminar 3 Discourse analytical approaches towards uncovering power relations, with a specific focus on race/whiteness
Seminar 2 Race and its intersection with other categories of difference, 11.02.2011.
Seminar 1 Critical Whiteness Studies and post-race discourses, 24.11.2010
2018 – 2024
Doctorate in Education
Unit 1 Research Methodology
Unit 2 Research Analytics
Unit 3 Critical Policy Analysis
Unit 4 Research Colloquium
2019 – 2024 MA Race Education and Decoloniality - Critical Whiteness Studies
2018 – 2021 Major Independent Study
2018-2020 LEVEL 5 Lead Research Methods
2018-2019 LEVEL 4 Lead Children’s Rights
University of Leeds 2006-2017
2011-2016 BA Sociology – Emotions, Power and Contemporary Society
2010-2016 BA Social Policy – Governing Cultures, Identities & Emotions
2006-2016 MA Social Research – Qualitative Methods (contributor on Interviewing,
Public engagement and impact, Feminist Methods)
2008-2015 MA in Global Racism and Ethnicity Studies (Feminist intersectionalities, critical whiteness studies)
2012-2015 MA in Global Genders (Race, family & gendered nation; Queering White South African Genders; Travelling coloniality: White elsewheres within)
2008-2016 BA Sociology Race and Ethnicity
2010-2015 BA Central Problems in Sociology (Feminism and Critical Race Theory)
2010-2015 BA Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Society
2010-2016 BA Social Policy Dissertation Supervision
Lancaster University Management School 2003-2006
2003-2006 MA Senior Leadership Development (Gender, Race and Leadership in Public Sector Organisations)
2003-2006 MA Management Learning (Equality and Diversity: Connecting individual and organisational learning)
University of Birmingham 1999-2003
1999-2002 MA In Social Work, Social Work Research Methods
2000-2001 MA in Social Research, Advanced Qualitative Methods
MA in Social Work, Identity and Social Structure (Race, Ethnicity and Social Policy for Social Work)
BA Social Policy Introduction to Social Policy
BA Social Policy Sociology of Health
BA Social Policy Introduction to Sociology
BA Social Policy Welfare and Society
MA Public Health Social Policy (on Race and Health Inequalities)
Probation Studies (Assessment Centre Panel)