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Since leaving a twenty-year academic career (lecturing in political economy and sociology, researching UK Caribbean diaspora) to join the BBC in 1989, where he became Head of the African/Caribbean Programmes Unit (TV) (1991/1992), Colin Prescod has worked mainly in film, TV, theatre and advisory-curating in the museums and archives heritage sector (advisor to two ‘permanent’ galleries opened in November, 2007 – London, Sugar and Slavery, Museum in Docklands, London, and Atlantic Worlds, National Maritime Museum, London). 

Most recently, as co-director of the not for profit, cultural animation company, 'Manifesta', he has devised and delivered trans-European, creative video workshops for groups of 15 to19 year olds – “Belonging” in Paris/Lisbon/London (2008/09), and “Breaking Into The Museum”, in Paris/London (2010/11) – see www.manifesta.org.uk

Currently Colin is Chair of the Council of the Institute of Race Relations, and a member of the editorial working committee of the IRR’s international journal ‘Race and Class’. Professionally, over four decades, he has been academic, documentary film and theatre maker, TV commissioning editor, and museum-gallery advisor. He is also an Artswork board-member.