Identity | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 91ŃÇÉ« Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:34:07 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.10 Lace Mahalia Jackson /research/tubman/profile/lace-mahalia-jackson/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:25:44 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8584 Dr Lace M. Jackson, is a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Social Work affiliated with the Universities of Bedfordshire and The Open University, England. Lace’s positionality as a Global Majority woman from Jamaican Caribbean heritage has shaped her current research focus on leadership and identity.

An Advanced Social Worker, Lace has substantial experience in social work and leadership practice with over 30 years in various roles within children’s services, hospital social work, mental health, education/safeguarding and child protection. In addition, Lace has led social care workforce learning and development functions, and a research institute as a C-suite executive director within the charity sector.

Lace is committed to the sphere of practice, having completed her PhD thesis in 2023, exploring the personal and professional challenges of Global Majority Leaders in the UK. Lace’s research aims to surface some of the challenges experienced by Global Majority Leaders concerning occluded organisational narratives and invisible practices of leadership and identity in a UK postcolonial context and the emancipatory ways these Diasporic leaders respond.

Keywords: Identity, Leadership Belonging, UK

]]> Michelle J. Martineau /research/tubman/profile/michelle-j-martineau/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:55:24 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8223 Michelle is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Université de Montréal. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Law (Université des Antilles – Guadeloupe) and a Master’s in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations, Cooperation, and Development (Université du Québec à Montréal). Her Master’s research focused on departmentalization and independence in the Guadeloupean context, spanning from 1950 to 1990. Her doctoral project examines identity (both political and cultural) and its impact on Guadeloupe’s political future in a post-colonial setting. Specifically, she aims to deconstruct the notion of departmentalization, illustrating how epistemic violence has influenced the construction of political and cultural identity in the archipelago. She was the student representative for CRIDAQ (2021-2023) and received scholarships from CRIDAQ as well as the CÉRIUM writing grant (winter 2023). She is the founder of the blog identitescaraibes.org and a columnist for NéoQuébec.

Keywords: Colonization, decolonization, postcolonial and decolonial theories, race, ethnicity, identity, citizenship, assimilation, universalism, France, nationalism, Caribbean geopolitics, regional Caribbean governance, international relations, political violence, (De)colonial feminism, Black studies

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