Black Humanities Project

Black Humanities Project, part of Empower, is run by students for students. The aim? Encouraging young people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds to consider studying arts and humanities subjects at university.

Black Humanities Project (BHP) is a student-led grassroots initiative, designed to address the disparity and close the degree-awarding gap between white students and Black and minority ethnic students.

We’ll give your students the opportunity to tell their own stories, and hear untold or undervalued stories of those who came before them. They’ll have the space to explore their own passions and learn how they can harness creativity in their own futures. Inspirational role models will be on hand throughout, in the form of our UEA student co-ordinators from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

The creative pieces your students generate could be included in the Black Humanities Anthology, which will be professionally printed and distributed to participants, school libraries, and hopefully public libraries in Norfolk.

The BHP team, made up of dedicated student co-ordinators and UEA Outreach staff, delivers a range of events and workshops each year, including:

• Expose. Explore. Empower. An on-campus event for Black and minority ethnic students in Year 9. A day of hands-on activities that spotlight untold stories and empower your students to make informed decisions about their futures.
• BHP Workshops. In-school workshops, delivered by our BHP student co-ordinators (all of whom are studying humanities subjects at UEA). Designed to increase students’ understanding of the skills they can develop by studying arts and humanities – and to get creative juices flowing!