Trustee

Maria Amidu

Maria is a visual artist and producer of social projects. She has developed work at several organisations including at the Houses of Parliament, Turner Contemporary and PEER. She is also a programmer and writer for learning, and developed the Autograph ABP Archive Learning Resource and the National Maritime Museum’s Citizen Resource . Maria became a close colleague and friend of Stuart whilst working with him on the development of Rivington Place and the film The Unfinished Conversation (2012).

Trustee

Martha Awojobi

Martha is CEO of JMB and curator of Uncharitable (formerly #BAMEOnline). They support the charity sector to move beyond tokenistic and performative diversity gestures and grapple with the legacy of racism, imperialism and colonialism that is the heart of the sector. Martha works with organisations to understand racism, reflect on their relationship to white supremacy and work towards an anti-racist vision for a liberated future.

Trustee

Nick Beech

Nick Beech researches the history of architecture and cultural studies. He produced the bibliography of Hall’s published work available on the Foundation website. Currently Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, he leads the Stuart Hall Archive Project, a 3 year research programme developing engagement and access to the Stuart Hall Archive, held at the Cadbury Research Library, Birmingham.

Treasurer

Peter Greig

Peter Greig is an accountant. He studied sociology at the Open University in the 70s and 80s and was profoundly influenced by Stuart Halls courses. He is now retired following a career in the voluntary and public sectors which included Centrepoint, the Arts Council and the GLA. He has extensive Trustee experience including several Law Centres, Cultural Co-operation and Survivors Poetry. Currently Peter is also a trustee of the European Network on Statelessness.

Trustee

Becky Hall

Becky Hall is Stuart’s daughter. She studied literature before training as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and subsequently qualified as a Psychoanalyst. She currently works in the NHS and in private practice.

Trustee

Catherine Hall

Catherine Hall is Stuart’s widow. She is a historian and works on questions of race and empire in Britain and Jamaica. She led the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London for ten years, exploring Britain’s long history in relation to the slavery business. She is now the Emerita Chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL. Catherine has published extensively on questions of race, gender and empire.

Trustee

Sarah Kavanagh

Sarah works for Bar Council as Head of Media and Communications and previously ran the Campaigns and Communications Department for the NUJ in the UK and Ireland. Sarah is a sociology graduate, studying her BA at Goldsmiths and MA at Ruskin College. In 2021 she authored a chapter of a book published by Routledge, entitled: Investigative Journalism (third edition), it explains her campaigning work on journalistic ethics and sets out some of the legal threats to investigative journalism in the UK.

Interim Vice Chair

Paula Kahn

Paula Kahn worked with Stuart as a Trustee of Iniva eventually becoming Acting Chair. She then became Chair of Camden Arts Centre. She was Chief Executive of Longman, the international education publisher and subsequently MD of Phaidon Press. Currently Chair of the Advisory Board of the Wellcome Collection she was formerly chair of NCL NHS and MTVH Housing Trust, a trustee of Cripplegate Foundation and Treasurer of Association of Charitable Foundations.

Trustee

Farzana Khan

Farzana (she/her) is a writer, director, cultural producer and award-winning arts educator. She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Healing Justice London (HJL). Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups. Farzana has a background of over 10 years in youth and community work, particularly focused on arts-based education projects both in the UK and internationally.

Trustee

Aasiya Lodhi

Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Westminster. Her research is focused on empire and twentieth-century British history. She led an AHRC-funded project on gender, race, and visibility tied to the BBC’s centenary, and she is currently writing a book on BBC Radio, racial liberalism, and the politics of voice in post-war Britain. Aasiya is a former BBC radio producer and journalist.

Trustee

Nasar Meer

Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and founding Director of RACE.ED – a network spanning the sciences, humanities and social sciences to platform work on race, racialization and decolonial studies. He has served as a Trustee of educational and civic charities including UK Social Policy Association (SPA), the British Sociological Association (BSA), and RSE Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) to support the pubic function of research and education more broadly. He is part of the Scottish Government’s Governance Group to Develop National Anti-Racist Infrastructure, and was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (RSE) (2020–21) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, and a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group. His most recent book is The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (2020-Policy Press).

Trustee

Michael Rustin

Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic. He first met Stuart at the Universities and Left Review Club in 1957 and worked with him on political projects over many years. Stuart, Doreen Massey and he were founding editors of Soundings in 1995 and edited the Kilburn Manifesto together in 2013-4. Michael is Stuart’s brother-in-law.

Chair

Gilane Tawadros

Gilane Tawadros is the Director of the Whitechapel Gallery. She was formerly Chief Executive of DACS and Co-Director of the Art360 Foundation. She was the founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) in London, chaired by Professor Stuart Hall, which, over a decade, achieved an international reputation as a ground-breaking cultural agency at the leading edge of artistic and cultural debates nationally and internationally. She has written extensively on contemporary art and curated a number of international exhibitions. She has worked with and advised a number of leading international cultural organisations including Tate, Hayward Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, International Foundation Manifesta, Venice Biennial and Forum for African Arts. She is Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation, Trustee of the Stuart Croft Foundation and Member of the Advisory Committee for the Yale Center for British Art. Her anthology The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

Associate

Giorgia Doná

Giorgia Doná is a UK-based Italian migrant, academic and advocate for the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.  Her practice involves collaboration with professionals and cultural activists. Giorgia co-directs the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, where she promotes access to higher education for students from underrepresented backgrounds. She writes on questions of displacement, borders, representation, and diaspora youth including on the project Debordering Higher Education: Refugees, Universities and Social Justice (forthcoming). Giorgia is a founding member of the scholar/activist network Social Scientists against the Hostile Environment and makes public interventions on the politics of the UK asylum/immigration system on radio and television.

Associate

Remi Joseph-Salisbury

Remi Joseph-Salisbury is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester, with interests in the study of racisms and antiracisms, particularly in the contexts of education and policing.

Remi is co-author of Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism which was awarded a 2023 Society of Professors of Education outstanding book award, and author of Black Mixed Race Men, winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for best first book is Sociology.

He is a member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project, a police abolitionist group based in Greater Manchester, the No Police in Schools campaign, and the Centre of Dynamics on Ethnicity (CoDE).

Associate

Ruth Ramsden-Karelse

Ruth Ramsden-Karelse is the Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, where she is completing her first monograph, about queer of colour worldmaking in apartheid South Africa. Ruth was the University of Oxford’s inaugural Stuart Hall Doctoral Scholar and is now an Associate of the Stuart Hall Foundation. She sits on the Academic Committee, hosts the scholars, fellows, and artists’ monthly forums, and is working closely with the Foundation team to further develop these meetings as a supportive and enriching space for network members. Ruth is also an organising member of the queer South African collective Salon Kewpie. Her writing can be found in publications including GLQ and Gender, Place & Culture.

Associate

Roshini Kempadoo

Roshini Kempadoo is an international photographer, media artist and scholar with the School of Arts, University of Westminster. She has worked for over 30 years as a cultural activist and advocate, having been instrumental to the development of Autograph (ABP) and Ten.8 Photographic Magazine. As an artist she re-imagines everyday experiences and womens’ perspectives relating to Caribbean legacies and memories. Central to this is her book Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and Location of the Caribbean Figure (2016). Her ongoing research develops creative methodologies on issues of race and extraction in relation to ecological futures.

Associate

Shamim Miah

Dr Shamim Miah is a senior lecturer and the author of four books: Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society (2023); Race, Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England (co-author); Muslims and the Question of Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racial Politics and Muslims Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation which received the ‘highly commended’ book award by the Society for Educational Studies’ (2016).

Shamim is the co-editor for Muslims in Britain series (Oxford University Press). He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and an associate editor for the journal Critical Muslim (Hurst).

Associate

Kennetta Hammond Perry

Kennetta Hammond Perry serves as Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University where she is also a Reader in History. Her research interests include Black British history, transnational race politics, Black women’s history and histories of statecrafted racial violence. She is the author of London Is the Place For Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford, 2016) and currently working on a new book, David Oluwale’s Britain which uses imperilled Black life as a lens to rethink the contours of contemporary British history.

Associate

Derron Wallace

Derron Wallace is an assistant professor of sociology and education at Brandeis University and research fellow at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. He is a sociologist of race, ethnicity and education who specializes in cross-national studies of academic and police profiling, focusing specifically on the experiences of Black youth. He is the author of the forthcoming book,The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford, 2023). His research has been supported by the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Prior to joining the Brandeis faculty, he served as a professional community organizer in London, working on youth safety, living wage, fair housing and immigrant rights campaigns.