Alison Wiggins (she/her) is an Anti-racist educator, teacher, lecturer in Education and Subject Leader for the PGCE in Social Sciences programme at IoE-UCL and she leads work across the secondary PGCE programme on PSHE, RSE and Anti-racism. She is also a tutor on the MA Education programme teaching on the core modules and the Feminist Pedagogies and approaches module.
Before working in HE she taught Sociology, Psychology, and humanities in secondary schools in London for 14 years and continues to teach in schools now, as a facilitator for the School of Sexuality Education.
She works with a range of organisations as an education consultant and training provider, specialising in Anti-racist and Anti-discriminatory practice.
Her research is focused on race equity in education, and she is an EdD candidate researching the experiences of Black and Black-Mixed women teachers and the Black and Black-Mixed girls they teach in Secondary schools and colleges.