Vini Lander is Professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality (CRED) in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. Vini’s research focuses on race, ethnicity and education. She uses critical race theory as a theoretical framework to examine ‘race’ inequalities in education, specifically in teacher education.
As Director of CRED, a research and practice centre, Professor Lander has delivered professional development for more than 100 institutions including schools Multi-Academy Trusts, the NHS, medical educators, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and many others. She has provided consultancy for prestigious organisations supporting their ambitions plans to become anti-racist establishments.
In collaboration with Professor Heather Smith, at Newcastle University she completed research on the provision of anti-racist pedagogy in initial teacher education and training (ITE/T) which led to the writing of the anti-racism framework for ITE/T. This was launched at a successful conference in March 2023 which was attended by more than 100 ITE/T providers. Professors Smith and Lander have completed a number of seminars about the framework for teacher educators including colleagues at Hiroshima University.