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Staff and Consultants
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Frank Reeves
BA
Hons, PGCE, MEd, MA, PhD, MBA, Cert (Conflict).
Frank Reeves is chief executive of Rights and
Equality West Midlands, the regional development arm
of the West Midlands Race Equality Forum. He has a
wide-ranging professional knowledge and experience
of race and community relations, academic and
applied research, business and people management and
development, and adult education and training. |
Frank
Reeves is chief executive of Rights and Equality West
Midlands, the regional development arm of the West Midlands
Race Equality Forum. He has a wide-ranging professional
knowledge and experience of race and community relations,
academic and applied research, business and people
management and development, and adult education and
training.
Frank has a
first degree in philosophy, a PGCE, an MEd , an MA in
sociology, an MBA, a PhD in the sociology of race relations,
and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. He
has worked as a research associate at the Centre for
Research in Ethnic Relations, as a lecturer at Aston and
Wolverhampton universities, as a senior counsellor and tutor
at the Open University (where he had a special
responsibility for students with disability), as a vice
principal of a further education college, and as chief
executive of two racial equality councils. From 2001 to
March 2008 he served as secretary of the British Federation
of Racial Equality Councils.
He is
author of British Racial Discourse (Cambridge), which
developed and popularised the concept of deracialisation,
and Race and Borough Politics (Gower), on the racial
politics of local government. Together with Robin Ward, he
wrote the first study of West Indians in business in Britain
(HMSO) for the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee.
Recent books include Race Equality in Local Communities:
a guide to its promotion (2007), From BUF to BNP
(2006) (with Eric Seward), the Race Equality Manifesto
(2007), and The Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British
Community Cohesion Policy (2007). With Tahir Abbas, he
edited Immigration and Race Relations, Sociological
Theory and John Rex (2007). He is also the editor of
the Race Equality Digest, writing many of the titles,
including British Urban Ethnic Group Conflict and
Violence.
Most
recently, he has directed research on the promotion of race
equality and community cohesion through Local Area
Agreements, on racist incidents in schools and on the
development of relations between Muslim and non-Muslim
communities in Britain.
He has
helped run a black supplementary school, extensively
developed the theory of popular adult and community
education, contributed to the development of the community
college movement in India, served on the editorial board of
the Caribbean Journal of Education, and written and
published multi-cultural and anti-racist poetry. He collects
Indian iconography, has an interest in black Caribbean
history, is an amateur geologist, and paints portraits.
Married to Professor Mel Chevannes, he has three grown-up
mixed-race children of whom he is immensely proud.
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