A lecturer at the University of Bristol has claimed she endured a ‘demeaning and hostile’ environment with staff ‘colluding or collaborating’ against her, and industrial tribunal has been told.
Dr Christabelle Peters, a lecturer in Latin American Cultural History, has begun what could be a seven-day hearing at Bristol Civil Court, taking the university to a tribunal on the grounds that it discriminated against her on the grounds of her race. She claimed that one senior lecturer told her ‘no one gives a sh** about Africa’ when she pitched a research project to him, and her mentor went behind her back when she complained to her about it.
The lecturer’s lengthy evidence said she was repeatedly subject to micro-aggressions and different treatment because she is Black, and her colleagues undermined her. The University of Bristol is contesting the claim and denies any wrongdoing at all.
