Mia Liyanage

Mia is a decolonisation advocate and scholar of queer history. She is the author of ‘Miseducation: decolonising curricula, culture and pedagogy in UK universities’, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) in July 2020. She was previously Co-Chair of Common Ground Oxford, a student movement challenging systemic racism and classism and advocating for decolonisation. Mia recently graduated with a master’s in US History from Balliol College, Oxford. Her thesis uncovered the presence of ‘queer euphoria’ and an intersectional queer community in the face of persecution at Harvard University in 1920. She now works as London Programme Officer at CoachBright, a social mobility organisation dedicated to educational equity for disadvantaged young people.