Abstract

This work is being conducted within the context of the UN International Decade for People of
African Descent (2015-24) and in the wake of calls by grassroots communities of reparatory justice interest, students-led
organizations and scholar-activists for higher education institutions (HEIs) to begin repairing the harms caused by
institutional ties to the enslavement of African peoples and colonial oppression, and their legacies today. Each HEI is
taking a different approach to their reparative justice programmes. Edinburgh is therefore at a critical point, and in a
unique position, to do something different. Restoring the dignity of racially minoritized peoples from multiple Black
(including African, African-descended, Caribbean) and Asian communities and other First Nation peoples requires an
action plan designed to both recognize the past while providing a vision for institutional and cultural development in the
future. The dataset comprises raw and anonymised responses from two questionnaires, cleaned and anonymised data,
data analyses and results, the documents used to obtain ethical approval for the questionnaires, and files used to recruit
participants for the questionnaires.
Date made available15 Jul 2025
PublisherEdinburgh DataShare
Temporal coverageOct 2022 - Oct 2024
Geographical coverageUK,University of Edinburgh,UNITED KINGDOM

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