[7] He subsequently received a PhD degree in education from the University of Nottingham in 1995, with a thesis on "the relationship between African-Caribbean boys' sub-culture and schooling".

In July 2020, The Guardian reported that 1990, Sewell had said in a column in The Voice newspaper that: "We heteros are sick and tired of tortured queens playing hide and seek around their closets.

[12] The inquiry's findings resulted in the government agreeing to provide £26 million to improve teachers' subject knowledge as part of the London Schools Excellence Fund.

[17][18] Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission who supported the report, criticised the "white establishment" for not defending Sewell from criticism.

[22] Commentators on race, education, health, and economics, chiefly from the political left, criticised the report's findings for downplaying the extent of racism in Britain.

[25] A further study on racial disparity, led by Nissa Finney, a professor of human geography at the University of St Andrews specialising in inequalities and social justice, was published in April 2023.

It asserted that the Sewell Report downplayed the existence and impact of structural and institutional racism and concluded that "Britain is not close to being a racially just society".