The theme for Black History Month 2025 is "Standing Firm in Power and Pride". Visit the official Black History Month website for news, views, features, listings, resources, and a diversity dashboard.

This toolkit includes a variety of assets to show your support during Black History Month and beyond. It includes email signatures, digital screens and social media assets.

Learn more about the University's race equality strategy, and some of the anti-racism initiatives being undertaken to tackle racial discrimination, including the Anti-Racism Working Group.

The University participated in the 100 Black Women Professors Now programme in 2023/24, a pioneering systemic change programme developed and delivered by the Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN). The cohort continues to be supported in the academic year 2025/26.

The centre fosters research being done around the artistic and intellectual work of people of African descent, with projects ranging from UK hip-hop to slavery and its legacies. Read more about the Centre on the Arts Matter blog.

• Black Futures Scholarship
• Black and Mixed Black Heritage PhD Scholarships