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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Maya Wolfe-Robinson North of England correspondent

Race report delivers damning verdict on Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine staff at work
The report was commissioned after the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s BAME staff network raisaed concerns about discrimination in an open letter. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

A damning independent report into race equality at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has found racial discrimination against staff of colour and a dominant Eurocentric approach, and highlighted an absence of senior leaders from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

The report, written by Prof Jason Arday of the University of Glasgow, was commissioned after an open letter from the BAME staff network in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020.

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