Anita Lateano

Anita Lateano is a Research Fellow at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, specializing in transformative academic practices through decolonial frameworks.

Education:

• MA Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London
• BSc Psychology, University of Exeter

Research Interests: Her work centers on social and environmental justice using experimental, participatory, and creative methodologies to develop decolonial knowledge production systems. She actively investigates how academic institutions can reimagine structures through just and progressive frameworks, emphasizing community-driven epistemologies and dismantling colonial legacies in business education.

Current Projects: Leading the Decolonisation Project (2022–ongoing) to fundamentally transform Birmingham Business School's pedagogical approaches, institutional culture, and experiential frameworks. This initiative explores radical reconfigurations of academic being, thinking, and practice within business education environments.

Professional Context: Works within interdisciplinary teams developing new models for equitable knowledge co-creation. No scientific awards or student supervision details are publicly documented in available sources. Her research directly challenges conventional academic power structures through actionable decolonial interventions.