Dr Arun Verma has delivered over 60 keynotes and talks, and participated in expert panels influencing the international conversation and action on inclusion, intersectionality and impact.
Recent events
Advance HE’s EDI Annual Conference. 2025.
Scottish Ethnic Minority Talent Summit. 2024
University of Oxford’s Institute for Developmental & Regenerative Medicine: Keynote titled “Beyond Boxes: Unpacking who we are in the research environment”. 2024.
Times Higher Education Pride Month Seminar. 2024.
EFMD Global: Keynote titled “How can we deal with AI and technology responsibly”. 2024.
AHEP Annual Conference: Expert Panellist on “Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education Professional Services: Attracting and Retaining the People we Need”. 2024.
Alzheimer’s Research UK Learning Series: “Let’s talk intersectionality”. 2024.
UX Libs 7: Keynote titled '“Be your most disruptive self - collective action in experience and design” for UX Libs 2023 Conference.
University College Birmingham: Keynote titled “Intersectionality is the key to unlocking the problem of inclusion” for Annual EDI Conference 2023.
University of Hertfordshire: Keynote titled “Intersectionality in motion - designing for impact” for Annual EDI Conference 2023
University of Cumbria: Keynote titled “What does it mean to do anti-racism in higher education”? for Race and Intersectionality Conference 2023
University of Galway: Keynote for Inaugural Anti-Racism Strategy Launch 2022
What will it take to advance equality, equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education? University of Buckingham, 10th August 2022. Keynote.
Diversity, inclusivity and cultural competency in Student Services. AMOSSHE, in Solidarity: Intersectionality and Racism. Radboud University, 16th May 2022. Keynote.
SU22 Communities of Practice: Race Equity in Higher Education: Next Steps for Universities and SUs. Keynote. 2022.
Cambridge University Faculty of Health: Integrating Intersectionality. 2022.
Royal Academy of Engineering: Integrating Intersectionality. 2022.
Inside Government: Supporting BAME Students throughout Higher Education 2022.
University of Brighton Race Awareness Series 2022
Open University Black History Month 2022: Anti-Racism in Higher Education
University of Glasgow: Integrating Intersectionality. 2022.
Next Steps in Public Engagement: How do we Attract the People We Need. 2022
Celebrating Racial Diversity in the Ivory, University of Northampton 2021
UX Libs, Integrating Intersectionality: Re-imagining user journeys, 2022
Intersectionality panel, Virtual Diversity and Inclusion Conference, 21st April 2021
Intersectionality panel, Women in IT Awards & Summit, 17th November 2020
A journey to anti-racism: a systems approach to embedding intersectionality in higher education, Kingston University, 29th October 2020
Knowledge Equity Expert Panellist, Ladders4Action, 10th September 2020
"Allyship" for Race Equality, 31st July 2020
Embedding anti-racism in universities, 2nd July 2020
Integrating intersectionality [keynote], University of Dundee, 22nd February 2018
"I Felt That If I Challenged Him It Would Make My Life Difficult": Exploring Gendered Identities, Retention and Success in Healthcare Education, OTTAWA/ANZAHPE Conference 2016, Australia
Longitudinal Audio Diaries: A method to explore intersecting personal and professional identities in healthcare education research, OTTAWA/ANZAHPE Conference 2016, Australia
“He replied, ‘I haven’t had you… yet”: Exploring gendered identities in healthcare education, University of Dundee, 2015
Gender, intersectionality, retention and success in healthcare education, University of Dundee, 2015
“Ooh your surprisingly strong for a girl”: Gender, Retention & Success in healthcare education, Feminisms, Power and Pedagogy Seminar, University of Roehampton, 2015
Retention and Success in Healthcare Education: Exploring the influence of gendered identities in male- and female-dominated environments, University of Dundee Research Symposium, 2014