Kurt Barling is Professor of Journalism at Middlesex University.  He was an award-winning BBC investigative journalist and film-maker until 2015.  Kurt worked across BBC News and Current Affairs from 1989. Assignment, Newsnight, The Money Programme, Today, Black Britain and BBC News among other programmes.  He was Special Correspondent in London from 2001-2014.  Amongst his many journalism awards Kurt is proud of the 5 national awards for his reporting of race in Britain, the US, Africa and the Caribbean. He is author and editor of books on German history, Terrorism, Economic Development and the polemic The R Word: Racism.  Kurt gained a first-class degree in Languages & Politics before graduating with a Masters and PhD from the London School of Economics. He was an LSE lecturer in International Relations from 1986-89.  He sits on an advisory Board at the British Library and is adviser to a successful Silicon Valley Breaking News Platform which is transforming the landscape of American journalism.  He was raised in North London to a family that has supported Arsenal FC since 1915.  As a member of the National Youth Theatre in the 1980s he learned to love the value of theatre to enrich lives.