A judge has dismissed a claim by a lecturer that Bristol University discriminated against her and discouraged her from returning to work after a stroke due to her race.
The judgement, which came after a five-day tribunal hearing at the Bristol Civil Court in Redcliffe in January, has exonerated the university and the staff who had been accused of a range of incidents from 2016 to 2020 by Dr Christabelle Peters, who said she was subjected to a 'demeaning and hostile' environment.
The tribunal had also previously heard how Dr Peters, a lecturer in Latin American Cultural History, was told ‘no one gives a s*** about Africa’ after pitching a research project based on the continent. But the judge ruled that much of her evidence was 'not convincing', and parts were 'confusing and contradictory'.
