Dr Nicholas Evans

Dr Nick Evans is Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History and Deputy Director of the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull. His research focusses on voluntary and forced migration around the Atlantic between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

A founding member of the Wilberforce House Museum Advisory Board, he champions work to decolonise heritage and amplify the experiences of Global Majority people living in contemporary Britain. In 2023, he was part of teams that won both the Museums Association’s Decolonising Museums Award and the PraxisAuril KE Award 2023 for supporting Equality Diversity and Inclusion through Knowledge Exchange. Since 2023 he has served on the National Centre for Teaching Black History Educator's Steering Group at the International Slavery Museum.

For more information visit: https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/homelands .