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Kelly Parker

Kelly Parker is a second-year doctoral student and visiting lecturer at Falmouth University’s School of Communication. Her research, begun during her MA dissertation, investigates the lived impact of stereotyping and misrepresentation of BAME communities in advertising in the UK. The study ultimately seeks to establish guidance for the advertising industry around the portrayal of Black characters.

Review: Teaching Black HERStories, 24th-25th July, University of Missouri (Online)

“Teaching Black HERStories”: a review of transatlantic conferential learning  Teaching Black HERStories was the University of Missouri’s Carter Centre’s 3rd Annual ‘Teaching Black History’ conference. Delivered online due to COVID-19, HERStories focused on “K-12” Black History education. For those unfamiliar with the acronym, K-12 terms US education delivered to children ranging from school starters through to school leavers i.e. 4-18 years old.  Bringing educators from across the United States together, with virtual attendees from outside of North America, HERstories facilitated discourse around nuance and personal experience with the delivery of Black History education, in various formats. Comprising of a showing of the stirring soliloquy ”Walking with my ancestors” and Q&A opportunity with Professor Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum; sessions and workshops aimed to enrich the planning of and impartation of learning to students; tales of important characters throughout Black History; discourse of trials and errors when refining Black History pedagogies, and apt […]