Email to the Warden

So I've sent over an email to the Warden at Goldsmiths - Patrick Loughrey, detailing our research and findings about our project and cc'd you all -


" Dear Mr Patrick Loughrey

We, a collective of second year Politics students, decided to conduct an investigation on the perceptions of race and gender at Goldsmiths University as part of our group project. We are emailing you to present our outcomes of this project which we feel is pertinent to you as the Warden of Goldsmiths. Over the last two months we have conducted interviews, surveys and a petition to gauge the general attitudes of the student and staff population here at our university. Our university suffers from a serious well-publicised sexual-harassment scandal, attainment gap, and a serious lack of diversity when it comes to lecturers, so we felt this project was necessary to undertake as students here. All of our research has been recorded over at http://perceptionofraceandgender.blogspot.co.uk. We have attached here a petition signed by over a 100 students who feel we have a serious problem when it comes to race and gender at Goldsmiths. From our survey that we conducted across our campus, we found fifty-four per cent of students agreed that curriculum across departments are ‘pale, male and stale’. Similar to this at a more alarming number, seventy-five per cent of students said that ‘there were too many males in higher academic roles’ across our university. Our conclusions are that these problems are something that need to be seriously addressed by senior management at Goldsmiths, over 100 staff and students signed our petition for management to take these concerns seriously and make our campus a more representative place. 

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Osob Yusuf, Helen Jewell, Jack Delaney, Darcy Wilson, Alba Turku, Sajjad Haider and Rumman Chowdhury  "