Manny Madriaga

Contact

• workRoom B42 Dearing
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4467
• Manny.Madriaga@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Manny Madriaga joined the University of Nottingham in 2022. He has a background working in disability student support, widening participation, education development, and quality enhancement. He was born and raised in California, ancestral lands of the Ohlone and Esselen.

Expertise Summary

His research interests are on the processes of social exclusion/inclusion related to 'race', ethnicity and disability. He is a sociologist of education currently engaged in research projects with a focus on widening participation and culturally relevant teaching in higher education.

Teaching Summary

Manny is currently teaching on BA Education and MA Special and Inclusive Education. He is also supervising MA dissertations and doctoral students in the School of Education.

Research Summary

Manny is currently researching matters of race, disability, and equality in accessing higher education.

From 2021-2025, Manny is currently conducting research and evaluation work, alongside Sheffield Hallam University, on increasing access and participation for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic groups in postgraduate research study. This is a part of the evaluation strand for the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education www.ycede.ac.uk

Recent Publications

• MADRIAGA, MANUEL, 2022. Reframing race and widening access into higher education: Higher Education Higher Education.
• CAINE, JAMIE, GILROY, JOHANNE, GREAVES, MAXINE and MADRIAGA, MANUEL, 2021. Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY. 21(1), 106-122
• SAMATAR, AMIRA, MADRIAGA, MANUEL and MCGRATH, LISA, 2021. No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION. 42(5-6), 717-732
• NADENA DOHARTY, MANUEL MADRIAGA and REMI JOSEPH-SALISBURY, 2020. The university went to 'decolonise' and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in 'decolonial' times Educational Philosophy and Theory. 53(3), 233-244

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Past Research

In 2021-2022, Manny was PI for a Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Scoping Award to examine race and widening access policy in English higher education. Two outputs are listed below:

1. Madriaga, M. 2022. Reframing race and widening access into higher education. Higher Education (open access)
2. Madriaga, M. 2022. Colour-evasiveness and higher education: Synthesis of literature on race and widening access. Society for Research into Higher Education

In 2017-2019, Manny was a Senior Research Fellow on research team led jointly by Dr Lindsey Bowes, Research Director, CFE Research and Professor Colin McCaig, Sheffield Hallam University. Office for Students: Formative Evaluation of Capacity Building of National Collaborative Outreach Programme. More information on this project can be found here.

Future Research

In 2023-2024, Manny will be undertaking a Leverhulme Research Fellowship on hope for anti-racist change in higher education. Details of this project was featured in the May 2023 Leverhulme Trust newsletter (p.15).

• MADRIAGA, MANUEL, 2022. Reframing race and widening access into higher education: Higher Education Higher Education.
• CAINE, JAMIE, GILROY, JOHANNE, GREAVES, MAXINE and MADRIAGA, MANUEL, 2021. Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY. 21(1), 106-122
• SAMATAR, AMIRA, MADRIAGA, MANUEL and MCGRATH, LISA, 2021. No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION. 42(5-6), 717-732
• NADENA DOHARTY, MANUEL MADRIAGA and REMI JOSEPH-SALISBURY, 2020. The university went to 'decolonise' and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in 'decolonial' times Educational Philosophy and Theory. 53(3), 233-244
• MADRIAGA, MANUEL and MCCAIG, COLIN, 2019. How international students of colour become Black: a story of whiteness in English higher education TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. 27(1), 84-98
• MANUEL MADRIAGA, 2018. Antiblackness In English higher education International Journal of Inclusive Education. 1-15
• MADRIAGA, MANUEL, HANSON, KATIE, KAY, HELEN and WALKER, ANN, 2011. Marking-out normalcy and disability in higher education BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION. 32(6), 901-920
• MADRIAGA, MANUEL, 2010. 'I avoid pubs and the student union like the plague': Students with Asperger Syndrome and their negotiation of university spaces CHILDRENS GEOGRAPHIES. 8(1), 39-50
• MADRIAGA, MANUEL and MALLETT, REBECCA, 2010. Images of Criminality, Victimization, and Disability INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF VICTIMOLOGY. 585-610
• MADRIAGA, MANUEL and GOODLEY, DAN, 2010. Moving beyond the minimum: socially just pedagogies and Asperger's syndrome in UK higher education INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION. 14(2), 115-131
• MADRIAGA, MANUEL, HANSON, KATIE, HEATON, CAROLINE, KAY, HELEN, NEWITT, SARAH and WALKER, ANN, 2010. Confronting similar challenges? Disabled and non-disabled students' learning and assessment experiences STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION. 35(6), 647-658