Black History Cymru 365 award for Prof Cheung

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Professor Uzo Iwobi CBE FLSW FRSA, Founder & CEO Race Council Cymru said:

“I was delighted to nominate Professor Cheung for a Black History and Race Council Cymru Community Award for her contributions to Race, Equality, Inclusion and Research. Professor Cheung’s work on racial inclusion issues have been inspirational. We hope that her work will empower the future generations. We hope to continue to work with her to shed a light on racial disparities in Wales and work for an antiracist and inclusive Welsh society”.

 

Professor Cheung is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She is trained as a quantitative sociologist and her research addresses different forms of social inequalities in contemporary societies. She has published on refugee integration, the changing inequalities in higher education, ethnic and religious penalties in the labour market, lone parents on benefits, claimants’ dynamics, and children in care.

Elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2022, she held various leadership roles, including International Director (2014-2017) and as Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Sociology: Race and Ethnicity. In 2019, she established the Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Diversity Research Group. She was a full member of the national assessment panel (Social Work and Social Policy sub-panel) in the UK Research Innovation – Research Excellence Framework 2021 and the Research Centres Grant Competition of the Economic and Social Research Council. Internationally, she has been appointed by the Hong Kong University Grants Council to serve on the Social Sciences Panel of the Research Assessment Exercise in 2026.

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The MEAD team would like to congratulate all the winners  and thank them for the incredible work!