Nicola Rollock

Nicola Rollock is Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London and director of NIANRO Consulting, a team who helps organisations think critically about how they understand racial justice and, as a result, implement better strategies for change.

She was Specialist Advisor, 2019–2022, to the Home Affairs Select Committee The Macpherson Report 22 Years On and Senior Advisor (Race & Higher Education) to the vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 2020–2022.

She was previously a member of the Wellcome Trust’s anti-racism expert group and their Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group and the British Science Association’s Equality & Diversity Advisory Group.

Her research on Black female professors was the first study to examine this group in the UK, and the related exhibition Phenomenal Women: portraits of UK Black female professors went on display at London’s Southbank Centre. In 2020, she appeared as an expert contributor in the BAFTA-winning Channel 4 documentary The School That Tried to End Racism.

Her book – The Racial Code: tales of resistance and survival – was published by Penguin Press in October 2022.