Kofi Amy Broadhurst (2024)

  • PhD Candidate
  • White yet raceless? Understanding whiteness and the white spatial imaginary in rural England
Kofi Amy Broadhurst (2024)

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About

Kofi Broadhurst is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge. She is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through their Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership (CAM-DTP). Her research focusses upon whiteness, identity and nationhood in rural England, engaging with ideas of (de)coloniality, Critical Race Theory, imperial memory/nostalgia, the racialisation of space, nationalism, marginality, and belonging.

Kofi completed her MPhil in the Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion at the University of Cambridge in 2023 and completed her BSc in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2022.

Alongside her doctoral research, Kofi has worked as a research assistant on an LSE project exploring inequalities in air pollution exposure in London and collaborated with the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust on a project exploring opportunities for and barriers to healthcare for forced migrant communities.

 

Supervisor

Dr Ali Meghji

 

Awards

  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) CAM-DTP Studentship (2024-2028)
  • George and Hilda Ormsby Prize for best overall performance in B.Sc. Environment & Development / B.Sc. Environmental Policy with Economics (2022)
  • Golden Scholarship, LSE (2019-2022)

 

Research

Research interests

  • Whiteness
  • Identity
  • Nationhood
  • Rurality
  • Imperial Memory/Nostalgia
  • The Racialisation of Space
  • (De)Coloniality
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Nationalism
  • Marginality and Belonging

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Robinson, A., Musotsi, P., Khan, Z.R.A., Nellums, L., Faiq, B., Broadhurst, K., Renolds, G., Pritchard, M. and Smith, A., 2025. Opportunities and practices supporting responsive health care for forced migrants: lessons from transnational practice and a mixed-methods systematic review. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, Available at: https://doi.org/10.3310/MRWK3419
  • Robinson, A.R., Khan, Z.R.A., Broadhurst, K.A., Nellums, L.B., Renolds, G., Faiq, B. and Smith, A., 2025. Mechanisms and attitudes in responsive healthcare for forced migrant communities: a qualitative study of transnational practice. BMJ Open, 15(2), p.e090211. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090211