The Race Matters network will bring together scholars working on race and crime by hosting a one-day symposium in order to create an effective space and opportunity for academic exchange. A website will be developed and launched and will provide a virtual home for scholars working on race and crime. The network will focus on showcasing the work of minority ethnic scholars in a bid to ensure representation and networks of support for minority ethnic academics in universities across the world. A series of interviews with minority ethnic scholars researching race and crime will be conducted and disseminated in the form of journal articles, blog pieces and presentations, to acknowledge and document the intellectual personal and emotional experiences of conducting research on race and crime for scholars of colour. The network will engender opportunities for collaborative research, comparative proposals and for scholars from the global south to be able to meaningfully engage with those from the global north.