London South Bank University

Faculty Member, Arts & Human Sciences

Senior Research Fellow

About

Dr Chamion Caballero is a senior research fellow in the Families & Social Capital Group which is situated in the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University (http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/research/weeks.shtml). Her research interests include race and ethnicity, particularly pertaining to the concept of mixed race, families, social history and qualitative research methods. Her PhD ‘Mixed Race Projects’: Perceptions, Constructions and Implications of Mixed Race in the UK and USA was awarded by the University of Bristol in 2005.

With colleagues and individually, Chamion has been worked on projects funded by the Department for Education and Skills, the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Runnymede Trust. In addition to academic articles, her published research includes a number of reports for these funders: Mixedness and the Arts (published by Runnymede Trust, 2010); Lone Mothers: Then and Now with Ros Edwards (published by Runnymede Trust, 2010); Parenting ‘Mixed’ Children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families with Ros Edwards and Shuby Puthussery (published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2008); Aiming High: Evaluation of African Caribbean Achivement Project with Leon Tikly, Jo Haynes, John Hill and David Gillborn (published by Department for Education and Skills, 2006) and Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Children with Leon Tikly, Jo Haynes and John Hill (published by Department for Education and Skills, 2004).

Findings from various research projects have featured in a number of newspaper and television articles and reports and her British Academy funded research with Peter Aspinall (University of Kent) on mixed race people, families and couples in 20th century Britain, also formed the foundation of the BBC2 television series ‘Mixed Britannia’ (http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/research/mixedbritannia).

Chamion is currently writing up findings from an ESRC-funded project on lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children
(http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/research/insidersandoutsiders/) and a co-authored monograph with Peter Aspinall on the 20th century history of mixed race Britain. She is also co-editing (with Susie Weller) a Special Issue entitled ‘Emotions Within and Through Research’ for the journal Emotion, Space and Society. A chapter ‘From ‘Draughtboard Alley’ to ‘Brown Britain’: the ‘ordinariness’ of mixedness in everyday life’ will appear in the co-edited book (with Ros Edwards, Suki Ali and Miri Song) International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixing and Mixedness to be published by Routledge in 2012 (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415598040/).

Contact Information