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Past events<\/h1>\n

May: Dr Natalie-Anne Hall (Lecturer in Social Sciences, SOCSI)<\/b><\/h2>\n

MEAD Seminar: Wednesday 8 May, 1-2pm (hybrid)<\/p>\n

Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism<\/p>\n

Venue: Glamorgan Building -1.55 (basement)<\/p>\n

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This is a hybrid event. Those joining online (if your travel is disrupted by the planned train strike) please email mead@cardiff.ac.uk\u00a0 for the link.<\/p>\n

In Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism (2023, Lexington Books), Natalie-Anne Hall takes Brexit as a case study for examining the consequences of the transnational diffusion of racist and right-wing populist politics on social media. Through an innovative multi-method study with a group of avidly engaged pro-Brexit Facebook users during the tumultuous post-referendum period, Hall explores the effects of this participation on the on- and offline experiences of these individuals and on their interpretation of events surrounding Brexit. The book examines the socio-political and technological opportunities that led to these individuals\u2019 engagement with right-wing populist politics, and the consequences of this engagement for transnational White victimhood and what Hall coins \u201cRight victimhood.\u201d These misplaced victimhoods work in tandem to legitimate illiberal and exclusionary ideologies and reproduce racism. The newly significant discourse of Right victimhood posits that progressive cultural and minority rights agendas are in fact malevolent oppression of those with conservative views. This discourse is perhaps more powerful, Hall argues, than White victimhood, as it is able to circumvent accusations of racism by framing the issue as one of freedom of political attitudes. Meanwhile, Right victimhood legitimates hostile attitudes towards minorities by demonising \u201cleft-wing\u201d minority rights advocacy. In this talk, Hall demonstrates how the \u201cmainstream\u201d political issue of Brexit acted as a catalyst for engagement with White victimhood and Right victimhood discourses, and how these connected pro-Brexit Facebook users to far-right political ideologies, including the conspiracy theories of the “Great Replacement” and “Cultural Marxism”. She will also discuss how such engagement has had reverberating consequences for recent reactionary right mobilisations, including the Conservative Party’s “war on woke”.<\/p>\n

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Dr Natalie-Anne Hall is a newly appointed Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Her research centres on online engagement with contentious politics and contested truth, particularly right-wing and racist ideologies. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester and was postdoctoral research associate on the Everyday Misinformation Project at Loughborough University. She previously worked at HM Inspectorate of Prisons, and has lived and studied in Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n

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May: Dementia Awareness Week (In-person event)<\/b><\/h2>\n

Led by the Alzheimer’s Society and supported by Dr Sofia Vougioukalou (CARE) & Kemba Hadaway-Morgan (SOCSI), Grangetown Pavillion<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Date and Time: 13 May 2024, 3.30-5.30pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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March: Dr. April-Louise Pennant\u2019s Book Launch and International Women\u2019s Day<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Date and Time: 8 March 2024, 3-4.30pm Glamorgan Building. Committee Room 2.<\/p>\n

Join MEAD to celebrate the publication of Dr April-Louise Pennant<\/a>\u2019s first book Babygirl, You’ve Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System<\/a> and International Women\u2019s day!<\/p>\n

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Ethnic Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System in Wales: a Linked Administrative Data Study (Dr Yongchao Jing, Research Associate, CASCADE)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wed 11 October (1-2pm) Online<\/p>\n

Email Mead for the Zoom link<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

A long-identified concern in the field of child welfare is that ethnic minority children are overrepresented in the child welfare system compared to their percentage in the total population, a phenomenon commonly referred to as racial\/ethnic disproportionality. This pattern of intervention is troubling because it results from ethnic bias in the child welfare system and\/or systematic socioeconomic disadvantages for ethnic families, both of which reflect ethnic inequality that needs to be addressed. Research on ethnic disproportionality in the UK is still scarce, mostly in England and focused on Children Looked After and Children on Protection Register, rather than the wider population of Children in Need. Drawing on the population-based Children in Need\/Children Receiving Care and Support (CIN\/CRCS) administrative records, we link these records to Census 2011 to improve the missing data of ethnicity on children in the welfare system. Our analyses describe the level of ethnic disproportionality for CIN\/CRCS from 2011 to 2020. Ethnic disproportionality provides not only compelling insights into patterns of existing inequalities, it also raises further questions on interventions as how to improve children\u2019s welfare service for social equity. This research advances the field in several important ways. First, we improve data quality of CIN\/CRCS by data linkage. Second, we explore the wider and under-researched group of CIN\/CRCS. Third, we are the first in the UK to describe the trend of ethnic disproportionality over a 10-year period. Fourth, the observation window of this research covers a period that coincides with both the change of legal framework in the definition of children for whom data are collected first seen in 2017 and the 2019-2020 years with COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, offering a rare opportunity to observe how administrative changes and exogenous interruptions may affect the level of ethnic disproportionality observed in the child welfare system.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Yongchao Jing holds a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Before joining CASCADE, her work on labour market inequality analysed cross-national survey data with quantitative methods. She was also involved in projects on migration and children\u2019s mental and physical health. She is now a Research Associate on a Health and Care Research Wales funded project Ethnic and Religious Inequalities in Children Welfare (ERICA) exploring ethnic inequality in children\u2019s social care by applying complex data linkage techniques with administrative data in Wales within SAIL databank.<\/p>\n

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Ethnicity and diversity research and practice at SPARK\u00a0 – the UK’s first social science innovation park<\/b><\/h2>\n

Friday<\/span>10<\/span>th of November 2023, 10-12 noon, SPARK room 0.47<\/p>\n

Organisers: Anna Skeels (SPARK Hub) and Sofia Vougioukalou (MEAD & SOCSCI)<\/p>\n

This networking session is jointly organised by the SPARK Hub and MEAD the Migration, Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Research group at SOCSCI. It is aimed at researchers and professionals based in or affiliated with SPARK. The session will include lightning talks (3-5 minute inputs) and small group discussions. It is aimed at fostering greater collaborations between academia, third-sector organisations, public bodies and the Welsh Government and can lead to the development of new projects. Please register your interest in presenting your work, please email skeelsa1@cardiff.ac.uk with a few sentences about the work you’d like to present by the 30th of September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Culture,\u00a0Dementia\u00a0and Care: Dementia Action\u00a0Week\u00a0in Grangetown<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Date and Time: 17 May 2023,\u00a015.30-17.30<\/span><\/p>\n

Venue: Grangetown Pavilion<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Dr Sofia Vougioukalou, Kemba Hadaway-Morgan (MEAD)<\/span>\u00a0Jazz Browne (Nubian Life), Shahid Mohammed (<\/span>carer\u00a0and dementia activist), Juls Benson (Reality Theatre)<\/span><\/p>\n

Dementia advice stalls:Alzheimer’s Society, Llandough hospital dementia learning team, dementia nursing team School of Healthcare Sciences<\/p>\n

This event will be delivered in the English language and interpreted in Urdu, Bengali, Arabic and Somali. It is a family-friendly event with creative activities for children provided by a community artist.<\/p>\n

Dr Sofia Vougioukalou and Kemba Hadaway-Morgan will talk about dementia, the role of culture and language and provide information about research projects that are taking place at Cardiff University. Mr Shahid Mohammed will be sharing his experiences looking after his mother and Jazz Browne will be sharing her experiences from Nubian Life (an Afro-Caribbean specialist day-provision service for older people with dementia in South London). The event will end with a short film about cultural issues in dementia care.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to reserve a place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>strong<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>\u00a0for me and now I am\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>strong.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>\u201d <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b>Towards\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span>a strength\u2013based approach to hosting forced migrant families in Wales<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Date and Time: Wednesday 14 June, 1-2pm (Online webinar via zoom)<\/p>\n

Dr Alison Prowle, University of Worcester<\/b><\/p>\n

Registration opens soon.<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/b><\/p>\n

In 2019, Welsh Government published its<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Nation of Sanctuary \u2013 Refugee and Asylum Seeker Plan,\u00a0<\/i><\/span>setting out an ambitious agenda for supporting and including refugees, which stands in stark contrast to the hostile policy environments of the UK Home Office.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>This paper presents a multi-disciplinary, qualitative study of how the needs of refugee and asylum-seeking parents in Wales are\u00a0understood and supported, using\u00a0a multi-lens stakeholder approach, drawing on the perspectives of refugee parents, multi-agency practitioners and strategic actors. It\u00a0argues that there is much merit within the Nation of Sanctuary approach, but also scope for improving the experiences of refugee families in Wales, and more could be achieved even within existing devolved powers. The study has highlighted the potential for developing a strength\u2013based and distinctly Welsh approach to hosting forced migrant families, focusing on agency, autonomy, and reciprocity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr Alison Prowle<\/b>\u00a0is a senior lecturer in the Department for Children and Families at the University of Worcester. She specialises in children’s adverse life experiences, trauma informed practice and integrated working to support children and families. She has led a number of consultancy and research projects related to parenting and family support for local authorities in England and Wales and is currently working with Worcestershire Kinship Carers to design a bespoke parenting programme for kinship carers. Alison first began researching with refugee and asylum seeking parents when supporting the Children\u2019s Centres in the camps of North France. She completed her PhD at Cardiff University in 2022, where she focused upon the experiences of forced migrant parents in Wales.<\/p>\n

Overcoming Racism in Higher Education: A personal journey<\/b><\/h2>\n

Date and Time: Monday 24 April 2023, 12:30-13:45<\/p>\n

Venue: Committee Room 1, Glamorgan Building<\/p>\n

Professors Urfan Khaliq and Sin Yi Cheung, Cardiff University<\/b><\/p>\n

Professor Khaliq,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201ca statistical outlier\u201d, will speak candidly about his experiences working in higher education in the UK as a Muslim man of Pakistani origin. He will also hold an extend Q&As in this session.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please note this in-person seminar was rescheduled from December 2022 and will not be recorded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to see event details and reserve a place.<\/p>\n

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