Camille London-Miyo, MBE

Doctoral Researcher, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre

Camille London-Miyo is a Doctoral Researcher with the Stephen
Lawrence Research Centre. She has been an English Subject teacher,
middle leader, and Senior Leader in inner-city secondary schools for over
thirty years.
Camille was awarded an MBE for her Services to Education in 1999 and
the National Professional Qualification of Headship in 2008. She has
been an active trade unionist and was elected the first black president in
the history of Leicester teachers' unions in 2018.
Camille is one of the co-founders of the Black Educators Alliance, a
national group of black educators who seek to challenge the institutional
racism that exists in education, and a co-founder of Leicester Black
Educators Network.
In addition, she is part of The Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators (CARE).
Camille is a community activist who supports community networks to
provide advocacy support to the parents of Black children whilst
challenging the narrative of the "underachievement of Black pupils in UK
schools.
As a co-founder of the Phoenix Agenda Supplementary School, Camille
works within Communities to build social capital and raise the achievement
of disadvantaged groups. Camille's understanding of the complexity and
importance of involving students, parents and communities in order to
achieve genuine and sustained progress in education at all levels has been
the foundation of her work to date, she has also established and works
with Black teacher networks and professional development programmes
across the UK.
Her research interests include black teachers in education - recruitment,
retention, and progression; strategies to decolonise the UK curriculum;
radical pedagogies that challenge empirical ideas about teaching and
learning; developing a global "English "Literature Curriculum as part of a
holistic anti-racist strategy in schools.
Camille has written a chapter entitled: Education, race and the
decolonisation of the curriculum in Beyond the Blockade - Education in
Cuba (2019), she has also written articles for the Independent, the

Guardian, and The Voice Online about decolonising the curriculum and
anti-racist practice in Schools.
Camille is presently working on an East Midlands photographic tribute,
celebrating Black Educators in the East Midlands, as part of the
commemoration of 30 years of Black Educators self-organising in the
Legacy NUT and the NEU.