Colin Prescod

Colin Prescod (born 1944) is a British sociologist and cultural activist, originally from Trinidad, who in a career spanning five decades has worked as an academic, documentary filmmaker, theatre maker, and BBC Television commissioning editor, as well as being involved with many cultural and community projects. He is chair of the London-based Institute of Race Relations and a member of the editorial working committee of the international journal Race and Class. aged 13, he moved to London to join his mother, Pearl Prescod, who had moved to Britain in the early 1950s and settled in Notting Hill.

Prescod studied sociology at the University of Essex. From 1969 to 1989, he was Senior Lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London. and in the mid-1970s Prescod became connected with the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its journal Race & Class.

In 1982, he directed Struggles for Black Community, a four-part series of films commissioned and broadcast by Channel Four.

Personal life Prescod lives with his Australian-born wife Nina in Notting Hill, at the same address where he has lived since 1958.