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I’m so excited to be joining the Race Equality Foundation team as a Research Assistant. I completed a PhD in science and at the end decided to move away from working [...]

None of the Clocks Work – How young people, theatre and Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities have come together to create change The Race Equality Foundation’s Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) team [...]

The journey to being a patient in a secure mental health unit is, by its nature, a traumatic one. By the time one gets admitted one has been assessed, prodded, and, [...]

Between December 2020-June 2021, West Bromwich African Caribbean resource centre conducted community-based research to enable black African diaspora experiences of the Covid lockdown to be heard without qualification. This was funded [...]

The disparities in maternal outcomes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women have been known for some time. For around 10 years, the MBRRACE confidential inquiry into maternal deaths regularly highlights [...]

I’m thrilled to be joining the team as a Policy and Practice Officer. I’m already familiar with Race Equality Foundation through collaboration on my PhD research, looking at young people’s experiences [...]

Bernadette Rhoden, Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) lead trainer, worked with a group of practitioners last week who had flown to the UK from Bangladesh, with support from Eduprompt ( a [...]

I recently started as the Research Assistant on the Fathers Together study, where we want to understand the needs and experiences of young fathers in prison, particularly those who are from [...]

The Race Equality Foundation’s Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) team have been running a programme of work around family conflict and, in particular, conflict between those in parenting/caring roles. This has [...]

Hastings and Eastbourne are linked towns within East Sussex affected, like most coastal communities, by ongoing concerns with street homelessness. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, local statutory and voluntary sector agencies were [...]

The No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Action Group, facilitated by the migrants rights charity Praxis, campaigns to end No Recourse to Public Funds and is formed of people with lived [...]

The Government has recently presented to Parliament its response to the Sewell report. The Government’s response, titled Inclusive Britain, is an Action Plan with a set of measures linked to the [...]

How to mark the second anniversary of the March 23 2020 Government announcement that the country would go into lockdown?  Perhaps by remembering the many family, friends and colleagues who passed [...]

Exposure to frequent and poorly resolved conflict between parents is associated with a range of problems for children and young people. These can include sustained dangerous coping strategies, including the misuse [...]

My years of working in the environmental field and doing research among minoritised communities in the UK have brought some key issues to light. What has emerged from my research is [...]

There are around 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales and recent estimates suggest that 54% are parents. Imprisonment affects the whole family, where having a father in prison increases the likelihood [...]

How my journey towards becoming a clinical psychologist in the future has led me to this great opportunity to join the Race Equality Foundation team as Research Assistant…. I have always [...]

Many of you will have been asked by us over the last few weeks to share information about and encourage Black, Asian and minority ethnic families you work with to take [...]

Cardiovascular disease is a disease of inequality. Too often, things like where you live, your income, your background, your ethnicity, and your gender determine your chance of developing – and dying [...]

The pain of losing a person we love is immense. The finality of death is absolute and unchangeable and our world becomes surreal and unfamiliar without our loved one. Emotionally, we [...]

The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Report detailed the gross inequalities faced by Black, Asian or minority ethnic people with learning disabilities. This blog on the recent report reflects on the evidence, and [...]