Forward Thinking workshop with Dr Ebun Joseph, Wednesday 1st July 2026, 7pm
Holywell Trust is pleased to welcome Dr Ebun Joseph to take part in our PEACEPLUS Forward Thinking workshop on Wednesday 1st July, 2026, at 7pm.
Dr Ebun Joseph is a leading Inclusion and race relations consultant, and the founder and CEO of the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies (IABS). She serves as Ireland’s Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism and is the module coordinator and lecturer for Black Studies at University College Dublin (UCD)—a pioneering course she established in 2018 as Ireland’s first. Dr Joseph is also the founder of the African Scholars Association Ireland (AfSAI), which she chaired from 2018 to 2022. Her previous roles include Career Development Consultant at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and Training and Employment Officer with the EPIC programme.
An accomplished author, TV panellist, and equality activist, Dr Joseph’s research focuses on race, labour markets, and structural inequality. Her publications include Critical Race Theory and Inequality in the Labour Market (Manchester University Press, 2020); Equity in the Workplace series: Stories of Black Irish Women in Ireland (2024); Stories of Black Irish women in academia (2025), and Challenging Perceptions of Africa in Schools (Routledge, 2020). Dr Joseph is the award winning author of the IRJ Prize awarded to the paper adjudicated to represent the best original contribution to the journal in a given year. ‘Composite counterstorytelling as a technique for challenging ambivalence about race and racism in the labour market in Ireland. She is also a documentary Executive producer of 'Equity in the workplace' and ECHOES OF 2004, and Host of The DEeP Table Dialogue.
About Forward Thinking
The Forward Thinking project is supported by PEACE PLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). It is funded through Derry City and Strabane District Council’s PEACEPLUS Local Co-Designed Action Plan, under the theme of Celebrating Cultural Diversity.
Forward Thinking is an adult dialogue project focused around the future of North- South and East-West relationships. It includes exploring constitutional questions and challenges from a diverse range of perspectives, and considers NI in a global context.
