Decolonising my/your/our Research

Collaborative Student Zine VOL.1

FEB 2024 - APR 2025

Decolonising my/your/our Research

Foreward This zine is a production by students of FASS652: Decolonising Higher Education, and attendees of a zine-making workshop supported by FASS Decolonisation at Lancaster University.

Some zines and zine pages were made in four hours, others in twenty minutes. All reflect on the topic of decolonisation and what it could or does mean to their research and studies.

Collected and curated by Meg Ritchie.

Printed and published May 2025.

‘What knowledge has been made part of academic agendas? And what knowledge has not?

Whose knowledge is this? Who is acknowledged to have the knowledge? And who is not?’

(Kilomba, 2008, p.27)

Consider what ‘underlying assumptions, motivations and values [...] inform [our] research practices’ (Smith, 2021, p.22)

‘What needs to change in academia? What does academia need to unlearn?’

(Thambinathan and Kinsella, 2021, p.6)

A ‘result of passion... ...rather than the desire for profit’ (Bartel, 2005, p.1)