Maud Blair was born to a Zimbabwean mother and an English father and spent all her childhood in Zimbabwe. She attended the University College of Rhodesia, at the time still a College of London University, where she did a degree in English and history. She married a British man and went to live in the UK. While she was raising her children she did a Master’s degree in ‘Race and Ethnicity’ at the University of Warwick followed by a PhD in the Sociology of Education at the Open University. There she worked for twelve years leading on courses in Race and Education and Gender and Education. This was followed by three years as a civil servant in the Department for Education. She worked as a consultant for The Learning Trust in Hackney before she retired. Maud has three children and eight grandchildren and lives in Cambridge.
