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Interrogating Inequalities

an indicative selection of videos discussing departmental research and impact activities

Research on inequalities is a key theme within work conducted in our department. Using some diverse examples, we reflect here on the motivations for this work, discuss some of our research findings, and consider who the users and beneficiaries are intended to be, beyond our traditional academic audiences. These videos have been funded by the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund 2019/20.

 

 

 

BurchardtTania

Dr Tania Burchardt highlights inequalities in England in unmet needs for help with activities of daily living among older adults by age, gender, ethnicity and area deprivation. This is part of the  in the , where Tania is an associate director. 

 

Timo_Fleckenstein

Dr Timo Fleckenstein talks about his research on South Korea, and how he engages with Korean policy-makers and the broader public to inform social policy-making.

 

 

SunilKUMAR

Dr Sunil Kumar reflects on four decades of engagement with the  and, more recently,  in . Dr Sunil Kumar speaks of how he strives to value workers, especially those in casualized and precarious work, for the humans they are and not by the work they do. An ethics of care based on dignity, compassion and nurturing is exigent.

 

PaileyRobtel

Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey explores some of the themes in her new book—Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia—the controversies around legislating non-resident forms of citizenship, and what implications this has for Liberians who identify as domestic or diasporic, poor or prosperous, powerful or powerless. 

 

CorettaPHILLIPS

Professor Coretta Phillips discusses a new research project, Studying 'Race and Crime': Then and Now. Find out more about this project .  

 

 

SheelyAmanda

Dr Amanda Sheely explores the complex relationship between government supervision in the welfare system and poverty among people with drug felony convictions in the United States, showing how supervision leads to both coercion and care. This research was published in and was funded by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s International Inequalities Institute.

 

 

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