Nissa Finney will be speaking about the recently launched Evidence for Equality National Survey which provides novel data on experience and inequalities for ethnic and religious minorities in Britain. She will focus on the importance of inclusive data, and challenges of producing them and achieving impact.
Nissa is Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews. She has researched, taught and published widely on ethnic inequalities, residential mobility, housing, neighbourhood mexico rcs data change, segregation and research methods. She is a member of the Centre for Population Change (CPC) and a founding member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). Within CoDE, Nissa leads the EVENS Survey, a new national survey – available via the UK Data Service – that documents the lives of ethnic and religious minorities with the aim of providing evidence to address inequalities. The free-to-download EVENS Book, ‘Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis’ (Policy Press 2023) evidences socio-economic (and other) disadvantages of many minoritised ethnic groups in Britain. Nissa has also undertaken work on poverty and ethnicity with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Centre for Homelessness Impact.
Social Justice Chester (Dr Kim Ross, Dr Nancy Evans, Dr Holly White and Jenn Robinson) are a research group based in the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester. Their research aims to address social harms and is underpinned by a participatory approach.