Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester, specializing in the study of racisms and antiracisms, particularly within the contexts of education and policing. In 2023, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to support his research on the impact of policing in educational settings.

Remi has written on a wide-range of interrelated topics, including institutional racism in compulsory schooling, the whiteness of higher education, the presence of police in schools, the policing of Afro-textured hair in schools, the policing of the pandemic, police abolition, and scholar-activism. He was the lead author of the British Sociological Association’s seminal 2020 report ‘Race and Ethnicity in British Sociology’. He co-authored ‘Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism’ (2021, Manchester University Press), which received a 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. He also co-edited ‘The Fire Now: Anti-racism in Times of Explicit Racial Violence’ (2018, Zed Books) and authored ‘Black Mixed Race Men’ (2018, Emerald Publishing), which won the BSA’s Philip Abrams Prize for best first book in Sociology.

In 2023, Remi was the lead author of ‘Whose Campus, Whose Security?’, a pioneering report on the impact of security and police officers on British university campuses. He frequently speaks at national and international conferences and has presented at festivals including Glastonbury and Rototom.

Remi is a member of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), an associate of the Stuart Hall Foundation, and serves on the advisory board for Kids of Colour. He is also a steering group member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project, a police abolitionist group based in Greater Manchester, and the No Police in Schools campaign.