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Maud Blair Editor & Author

Maud Blair was born to a Zimbabwean mother and an English father and spent her childhood in Zimbabwe. She attended the University College of Rhodesia before moving to the UK, where she completed a Master’s degree in ‘Race and Ethnicity’ at the University of Warwick followed by a PhD in the Sociology of Education at the Open University. There she worked for twelve years leading courses in Race and Education and Gender and Education. She then worked as a civil servant in the Department of Education and as a consultant for The Learning Trust in Hackney before she retired. Maud has three children and eight grandchildren and lives in Cambridge.