Social Justice Challenge videos on inequalities in mental health
In terms of creating impact from completed research, I will be part of the University of Manchester Social Justice Challenge videos on inequalities in mental health, where I’ll talk about my PhD research on inequalities in using mental health services for ethnic minority women in the UK. This video is one in a series that will be shown to new turkey rcs data undergraduates at the start of the academic year to get them thinking about real world issues that they may want to work on as part of their degree. I was really pleased to be asked to be part of these videos, as it is an opportunity to highlight my research to students at the university as well as making them think about inequalities in the UK, and how they might want to combat these inequalities via activities such as volunteering, society membership and campaigning during their time at university.
I’ve also been able to create impact from research and data in teaching undergraduate students as part of my new role as Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester. In the lectures that I have given so far, I’ve taught students about the research that I have conducted on ethnic inequalities in mental health and the labour market as examples of how quantitative data can be used in sociological research. I’ve also used a freely available dataset from the UK Data Service, the Attitudes towards Commercial Access to Health Data, to teach students basic descriptive statistics.