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Represented yet excluded: How ethnic minority people are counted in national surveys

  • 18 February 2021

Dr Dharmi Kapadia, of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity and panellists for #DataImpact2021, explores representation of ethnic minority people in data and introduces the Evidence for Equality National Survey.

Will more data change the lives of LGBTQ people in the UK?

  • 11 February 2021

Dr Kevin Guyan, panellist at #DataImpact2021, shares some key reflections on the role of data in representing the lives and experiences of LGBTQ people in the UK.

Is Britain Fairer? What do the data tell us?

  • 9 February 2021

Karen Hurrell from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and panellist for #DataImpact2021, explores how data help the Commission assess ‘Is Britain Fairer?’ 

Data for Good – an ESRC Festival of Social Science workshop

  • 2 December 2020

Patty Doran introduces a recent co-produced event which explored how different types of data can be used for good by the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector.

How does the minimum wage impact on employment and hours?

  • 6 October 2020

James Cockett, one of our #DataImpactFellows, discusses research he undertook with colleagues at the Institute for Employment Studies to investigate the impact of the introduction of the National Living Wage and its later upratings on employment retention and hours worked.

Creating new poverty measures for the UK

  • 24 September 2020

The Social Metrics Commission has developed a new measure of poverty, which the UK Government has committed to build on to develop experimental statistics.

Why fathers? A reflection on my academic and data journey

  • 15 September 2020

Helen Norman shares her data and research journey in investigating the role of fathers in family work.

Do we have to move out to move on? Climbing the Social Mobility step ladder in Britain

  • 3 August 2020

James Cockett, one of our #DataImpactFellows, asks “Is it time to create opportunity in every town and city and start turning the tide?”

How can we calculate levels of deprivation or poverty in the UK? (part 2)

  • 2 July 2020

What is the difference between poverty and deprivation? How can they be measured and understood? How can data help policymakers find ways to reduce their effect on the lives of people in the UK, especially given the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic?

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