Dr Shames Maskeen is the Associate Director of The Race Institute and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Trinity University. The Race Institute emerged directly from his leadership role in driving Leeds Trinity University to become the first University in Yorkshire to achieve the Race Equality Charter Bronze award and the need to keep anti-racism on the national agenda to enable sustained transformational change. He has been instrumental in ensuring that The Race Institute delivers its aim to improve the experiences of racialised minorities in the public, private and voluntary sectors through research, professional development and knowledge exchange.

Shames is a member of the Born in Bradford’s Centre for Applied Education Research group, Co-Chairs the Race Equity Network at Go Higher West Yorkshire, is an Associate for Race Equality at Advance HE and member of the Secure Date Environment Group. His research focusses on solving racial inequities and the intersections of class, culture, religion, and gender experienced by racialised minorities in Higher Education and beyond. He is passionate about anti-racism leadership and more importantly in actionable change to make a real difference and equitable world for young people.