Rachael Carden
Interim Dean of the School of Business and Law
Rachael Carden is the Interim Dean at the School of Business and Law at the University of Brighton. She has been an active and passionate educator and leader in education for many years. She has a master's degree in Education with a specialisation in liminality and academic transition and a BS Business degree with a specialisation in marketing and the introduction of innovative technologies in the workplace. She has a proven track record of working and researching in the fields of EDI including decolonizing the curriculum, differential outcomes, digital learning to promote inclusivity, academic transition, widening participation, uses of academic language, race allies and liminal spaces. She is a CMBE and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Rachael’s current research is a collaborative project with three other UK Universities into AI use in local businesses to inform the business curriculum at UK HEIs. She is also researching the effectiveness of decolonising the curriculum projects in UK HEIs in conjunction with four other universities for the Chartered Association of Business Schools. She is also co-authoring on the topic of DEI in Supply Chain Management.
Rachael is a doctoral candidate with the School of Business and Law at the University of Brighton. The working title for this doctorate is “Invisible Moths*: An investigation into the experiences of those students who identify as, or who are identified by universities in the UK as mixed 'race'.” There is a particular emphasis on how ‘mixed race’ students are identified / labelled by others and how they identify / label themselves.
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Contact: r.carden@brighton.ac.uk
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