She is a professor of Social Policy & Race at the King’s College, London. The Britich academic is also a consultant, public speaker and the author of several books including: The Colour of Class: The educational strategies of the Black middle classes.
Her work has been recognised by several awards and has been named as one of most influential black Britons, and she received the PRECIOUS award for her work in racial equality. She was nominated by Baroness Doreen Lawrence to be featured in the Duke & Duchess of Sussex’s list of next Generation Trailblazers in 2020 as she was praised for challenging prejudices against People of Colour.
Rollock is also known for her work in documenting the experiences of Black Female Professors which she presented in the Phenomenal Women display at the Southbank Centre in October 2020.
In 2020, she was featured in a BAFTA winning documentary on “The School that tried to end racism.”
She is currently a Specialist Adviser to the Home Affairs’ Select Committee’s ‘Macpherson 22 Years On’ Inquiry, Senior Advisor (Race & Higher Education) to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is a member of Wellcome Trust’s Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group and their newly formed Anti-racism Expert Group and, the British Science Association’s Equality & Diversity Advisory Group.
Rollrock was born in Southwest London to parents from Barbados. She was nurtured to focus on education as child. She studied English Literature which was her childhood passion and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Liverpool. She also holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Family and Couple Therapy. Her PhD research was about the educational attainment of black students in British secondary schools.
