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Dr. Lani Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University, located at 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, United Kingdom. Her scholarly work intersects sociology, critical race studies, and health and social care, with a particular focus on the Scottish context.
Research Interests: Dr. Russell’s research is centred on whiteness, race and ethnicity, and cultural competence within health and social care systems. She critically examines how institutional practices and discourses of cultural competence can themselves reproduce racial hierarchies and whiteness. Her work also explores shame, belonging, and diversity management in Scottish workplaces and healthcare settings.
Her publications reveal a consistent engagement with critical whiteness studies applied to healthcare education, policy, and professional practice. She interrogates how responsibilization discourses shift anti-racist obligations onto individuals rather than institutions, and how invisibility of whiteness sustains racial inequities in Scottish health and social care.
Publications Overview: Dr. Russell’s recent outputs (2021–2022) include a peer-reviewed chapter in the Handbook of Critical Whiteness and an article in the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare. Earlier work (2014) comprises a foundational book Sociology for Health Professionals and an article in Ethnic and Racial Studies on whiteness in Scottish workplaces.
Supervision: Dr. Russell has supervised at least one postgraduate research project, as indicated in the university profile.
