Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert
alexkelbert.bsky.social
Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert
@alexkelbert.bsky.social
🎓 Leverhulme Early Career Postdoc, UCL @sprc-ucl.bsky.social
➕ Deputy chair @uclsociology.bsky.social
🔎 Working on race, class and solidarities in England.
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An important story in today’s Guardian on a new report showing that teenagers in care are four times more likely to attempt to end their own life than those with no care experience, from #NuffieldFunded research by a team at @ioe.bsky.social.

Read the story: bit.ly/45dhdxv
One in four UK teenagers in care have attempted to end their lives, study says
Research also shows teenagers in care are four times more likely to try to end their lives than peers with no care history
bit.ly
January 14, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Event: don’t miss the last Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI seminar focusing on ontologies happening tomorrow, 15 January.
More info here👇
www.desirableai.com/events/cross...
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI — Desirable AI
Following the success and strong interest in last year’s events, the online seminar series “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI” continues this year. The series aims to encourage intercultural...
www.desirableai.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Checkout the ‘Cultural Location of Fascism’ series. Includes blogs by SPRC staff @lukedenoronha.bsky.social (Luke de Norhona), PhD student (Tommy Maddinson) and affiliate/former PhD student (Gabriel Bristow).
reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...
#Blogs #CulturalLocationofFascism
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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The latest issue of Race & Class is available to purchase now or read online via Sage

This issue leads with a piece on Awaab Ishak and the devaluation of migrant, working-class life by Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert and Rupinder Parhar. irr.org.uk/product/race...
Race & Class, January 2025 - Institute of Race Relations
Articles Awaab Ishak and the devaluation of migrant, working-class life by  Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert and Rupinder Parhar   Sweden’s race to the bottom: advancing a racial security state  by Leandro S...
irr.org.uk
January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Oh, this looks good. Michael Billig, Sivamohan Valluvan & Kojo Kyerewaa on Flags & Performative Nationalism:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flags-and-...
Flags and Performative Nationalism
SSAHE webinar on the role of flags for resurgent nationalism, the mainstreaming of the far right, and how to resist this
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:20 AM