Silhouette Bushay

Silhouette Bushay

Senior Lecturer in Education Studies

Senior Lecturer

Early Childhood and Education Studies

Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care

Silhouette Bushay is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at UEL's School of Childhood and Social Care who has worked as an academic at UEL since 2013. She works across the Early Childhood and Education Cluster, and within Teacher Education and Training.

Qualifications

  • Current Social Science PhD Researcher
  • PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  • BA (Hons) Education and Community Development

Areas Of Interest

I have a broad interest in:

  1. Intersectional racial justice, culturally responsive/relevant, decolonial, creative orientated pedagogies, research and practices in various contexts.
  2. Lived experiences of Black communities, particularly re. women and girls in a range of contexts.
  3. Black British girlhood.
  4. Black music, cultures, and histories.
Silhouette Bushay

OVERVIEW

Prior to working at the University of East London, Silhouette has worked in various contexts, including secondary schools, alternative provision, further education, community centres, and youth provisions.

Through her work with small charities/social enterprises, she has also initiated and delivered critical, creative, cultural, and social justice focused projects that promote critical dialogue, well-being, call to action, raise visibility, and educate in informal and formal learning spaces.

Silhouette work extends to working with professionals in various sectors, such as compulsory education, internal/external post-compulsory education, alternative education, and youth provisions.  This work has includes Education/EDI/social justice consultation and staff training.

She has experience of EDI orientated interventions including during validation process of various programmes within the School of Childhood and Social Care.  Silhouette has also experience of new module validation and revalidations for:

  • Youth and Communities Studies
  • Psychosocial, Early Childhood Studies
  • Education Studies and Special Education Needs undergraduate degree programme.

Her research focuses on a range of race, gender, music, culture and education related subjects from varied vantage points.

Awards and Fellowships

  • Member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) since 2021
  • Member of Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN) since 2021
  • School Awards in EDI Practice, 2021
  • Vice Chancellor and President Awards in EDI Practice, 2020
  • School Awards in EDI Practice, 2020
  • Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Award for Most Inclusive Teaching and Learning, 2019
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy since 2015

External roles

  • External Examiner at the Open University (OU)

Research Centre Membership

  • Centre for Social Justice and Change (CSJC)

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • PhD Candidate researching The Pedagogies of British Black Women who engage with Hip Hop Culture, and Hip Hop and Grime Music
  • Film documentary: Through The Lens of Hip-Hop: UK Women (writer, co-producer, co-director)
  • Dissertation: Hiphopology for Transformation: A Case Study of an East London Higher Education Institute

Conferences, seminars and public engagements

  • Bushay, S. (2023) "Let Flow: Hip Hop, from Levitation to Libation. Archiving Hip Hop: 50 Years in the Making. Keynote". Milton Keynes. 29 September 2023
  • Bushay, S. (2022) "Intersectionality and Education in England". The Department for Education. (online) London. 7 July 2022
  • Bushay, S. (2020) "Race and Education". Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Training Events. (online) London. 18 June 2020
  • Bushay, S. (2019) "Woman 2 Woman: Hip Hop Feminist Classroom Reflections". Working Paper at London Centre for Communication, University Arts London, London. April 2019
  • Bushay, S. (2018) "Gendering Hip Hop Relations". Presentation at Breakin’ Convention and UK Hiphoped Conference, Sadler’s Wells, London. September 2018
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  • Bushay, S. (2018) The Remix: Hip-Hop as Critical Pedagogies in Academic Spaces. Presentation delivered at King's College London Seminar Series (London). 3 July 2018
  • Bushay, S. (2016) Hip-Hop as Critical Pedagogy in Academic Spaces. Paper presented at the Power of Hip-Hop: Exchange Conference (London). 8 July 2016
  • Invited to chair the 'Cultural Power of Hip-Hop' panel at the Power of Hip-Hop: Exchange Conference (London). July 2016
  • Invited to join 2016 London Feminist Film Festival jury panel for Feature Film Awards Category
  • Bushay, S and Pariz 1 (2016) Hip Hop Fems Make Some Noise. Workshop delivered at ElevateHer Conference (London). 4 March 2016
  • Founder/organiser of International Women's Day conference, ElevateHer which was founded in March 2015, hosted by the School of Education and Communities, supported by Athena SWAN
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PUBLICATIONS

Academic Book Chapter

  • Bushay, S. (2023) Public Pedagogies of Resistance: Black British Women, Talk Di Ting, in Charles, M. & Gani, M. (eds.) Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century.  United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press.

Academic Journal

  • Agostinone-Wilson, F., Bushay, S. & Walton, S. ‘Book Review Symposium: 1. Mike Cole (2019) Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism: What is to Be Done? London and New York: Routledge Focus. 2. Mike Cole (2020) Theresa May, the Hostile Environment and Public, Pedagogies of Hate and Threat: The Case for a Future Without Borders. London and New York: Routledge Focus’, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 18(2). pp. 409 – 431.

Academic Blogs, Websites and Learning Resources

TEACHING

MA Education by Distance Learning

MA Education will extend your understanding of teaching theory and practice and help teachers or those supporting teaching and learning.

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MODULES

  • Module Leader: ET7077 – Culture and Diversity

Publications

The last four years of publications can be viewed below. 

Full publications list

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