Posted on 17 April 2020 by Shivonne Gates, Senior Researcher Ethnic diversity in social research: a persistent problem It is well-documented that Britain’s increasing diversity is not reflected in its workforce. Among people of working age, 12.5% are from a BAME background, but only 10% of Britain’s workforce are BAME, and only 6% of top management positions are held by BAME people. Social research is sadly no different. Read the rest of this entry Tags: BAME researchers, discrimination, equality, ethnicity, race, social research
Posted on 27 May 2014 Can we really measure racial prejudice? Today the Guardian reports new data from the British Social Attitudes survey showing that three in ten people describe themselves as being very or a little racially prejudiced. As the co-director of this survey, I’d like to use this space to explain how we arrived at these numbers, and outline the sorts of issues we consider when interpreting attitudinal data. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Alison Park, Britain, British Social Attitudes, ethnicity, race, racial prejudice, racism, attitudes, politics, quantitative data, religion, social and political attitudes, social surveys, survey