Notes: To find most of these studies, I typed “white privilege” into the UKRI search tool. I’ve emboldened some interesting sentences in each abstract:
Confronting whiteness: white Britons, complicity and the white racial identity, a taxpayer-funded PhD at the University of Cambridge
“Utilising decolonial and Critical Race thought to explore how white Britons relate to and understand whiteness. This project will begin to address a gap in scholarship by understanding racial hierarchy through the lens of whiteness, viz white Britons’ understandings of their own whiteness and racial experience. The research will also interrogate whiteness as a far-reaching and deep-rooted social issue.”
Set in stone? ‘Desired whiteness’ and the urban space: A collaborative research in (post) colonial Chile, a £246,160 research project at the University of Sheffield (with Chile described as an “excellent location” for study – suggesting that travel may have been involved in the project)
“Issues of race have long been silenced in many (post)colonial contexts in Latin America and beyond, and are not established in public discourse, especially in relation to the implicit social norm of ‘whiteness’. Nevertheless, as sadly highlighted by the Covid-19 health emergency and by the BLM protests after the murder of George Floyd, inequalities are closely linked to racialisation processes, shaping social life in many cities across the world.”
