Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing

ESRC funded project 'Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing' led by the University of Sheffield (PI Professor Majella Kilkey)

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The project is led by the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, and Liverpool, in collaboration with community organisations SADACCA and REMA, and the Office for National Statistics. To learn more about the project, please visit https://t.co/nxHqsxVE7l

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Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing: Why It Matters?

The Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing Project (https://t.co/nxHqsxVE7l) animation explores how ageing intersects with ethnicity and other social dimensions to influence later life experiences of social exclusion👇
https://t.co/xyhoAxfui1

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A big thank you also to the @NiftyFoxCreativ team who produce the animation, @EvansNifty and Laura Davison for leadership and support, @emgreenanimates for their creativity and skilled ability in designing the animation, and Carla Slack for the final touches 👇

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Learn more about our project here - https://t.co/yX0cXFaPaS

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Exciting News! Celebrating creativity! 🤩

We are thrilled to share two powerful poems by Zanib Rasool (MBE, Ed.D.), recently published at the "Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing" project website - https://t.co/D0QzRWru9n (+)

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Zanib Rasool’s latest poems show how working with older people from diverse ethnic backgrounds can lead to stunning, thought-provoking art that inspires change. Her work celebrates cultural diversity and demonstrates the power of storytelling. (+)

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Helena and Rashida recently presented key aspects of our project at #RGSIBG2024 conference. The audience gained valuable insights into the different facets of the project, and the team received excellent feedback and insightful suggestions for the next stage of our work.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC Project Ref: ES/W012383/1)
@IMISCOE #imiscoe2024 #migration #olderpeople #lifecourse #sociology

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Majella co-chaired the SC on Older Migrants session "Inclusive Methods for Researching with Older Migrants", in which Rashida and Jo presented "Storying life courses for intersectional inclusion: inclusive methods with older people from migrant and minoritised groups". +

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Helena presented findings of the project online in a panel titled "Unveiling inequities and resistances in migrants' access to the labour market".

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Some members of the research team attended the 21st International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) Annual Conference, which was hosted by the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. +

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With Co-Investigators from @sadaccawicker / @SadaccaLimited, @REMAcharity, @ONS, @LivUni, @unibirmingham, and Community Researchers, we showcased our project's progress and discussed future plans. Exciting times ahead! 🌟 #TeamMeeting #Collaboration #coproduction

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🎉 On June 18th, we had our 3rd whole team meeting in the The Wave, @sheffielduni ! 🙌

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Thank you very much @IsraacS for having us in your amazing space.

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The Community Researchers had their seventh training session July last year together with some other members of the research team to discuss consent and confidentiality when collecting data, as well as the guidelines for the go-along interviews at @IsraacS