Dr Rhianna Garrett

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Dr Rhianna Garrett (she/her) is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Northumbria University. She is currently working on an international research project entitled (Self)categorisation as Resistance: The Refusal of Mixed Ethnic Categorisation, based in the department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. This project explores mixed ethnic identities across the UK, the US, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, and Singapore.

After founding her own anti-racism activism projects in sports clubs and societies at the University of Exeter, Dr Garrett gained a lot of experience navigating the predominantly boardroom to enact change. She recently completed her PhD at Loughborough University on ethnic minority career trajectories, holding expertise in how to transform white supremacist organisational spaces.

Today, she primarily focuses on dismantling oppressive organisational practices, with a key focus on mixed ethnic identities, currently sitting on the executive board of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association as the global coordinator, volunteers with the charity People in Harmony, and runs an online social media page @rhimixedviews where she talks about the everyday mixed ethnic experience.

Experience

  • –present
    Research fellow, Northumbria University

Education

  • 2025 
    Loughborough University, PhD
  • 2021 
    University of Exeter, Master of Arts
  • 2020 
    University of Exeter, Bachelor of Arts

Publications

  • 2024
    Racism shapes careers: career trajectories and imagined futures of racialised minority PhDs in UK higher education, Globalisation, Societies and Education
  • 2024
    “I’m not white”: counter-stories from “mixed race” women navigating PhDs, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
  • 2024
    Quest for Equity: Using multiple methodologies to promote engagement and motivation towards race equity education, Qualitative Research
  • 2024
    On challenging and being inherently challenged’ as students: Feminist dialogues on DEI from the Global South to intersectional feminism in the Global North, How to Foster Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Geography

Grants and Contracts

  • 2025
    Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
    Role:
    Research Fellow
    Funding Source:
    The Leverhulme Trust
  • 2021
    Doctoral Studentship
    Role:
    PhD
    Funding Source:
    Loughborough University

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