Ethnic minority life: experts give fullest picture yet
The UK's largest research centre on ethnicity, The Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), jointly based at the University of Manchester and the University of Glasgow, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is being officially launched at an event in Manchester on Wednesday 30th October. The launch conference will present thirteen reports by world renowned academics at the University of Manchester which cover everything from where minorities live, where they come from, what languages they speak, what they do, how healthy they are and even how British they feel. These initial briefings are based on published data for England and Wales from the 2011 Census. Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow said "The on-going work of the Centre of Dynamics of Ethnicity aims to radically improve our understanding of the changing shape of ethnic inequalities and identities across the UK. This includes a specifically Scottish focus. The Centre will be producing briefings on the Scottish census data from 2011, exploring questions of national identity and diversity in Scotland, and will support new research studies investigating the Irish Catholic question, the engagement of minority communities with the forthcoming independence referendum, as well as a detailed case-study of the changing dynamics of ethnicity in the Govanhill and Pollokshields areas of Glasgow". CoDE Director, Professor James Nazroo from The University of Manchester, said "An unequivocal message has emerged from these initial 13 Census briefings: as a society we are becoming increasingly ethnically diverse, but social inequalities have continued and are striking in 2011.
