Wednesday 23 November / 3.30 to 4.30pm / On Zoom
This is a jointly hosted seminar between the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.
About the seminar:Ethnic inequalities in health are entrenched and persistent in the UK. This seminar, hosted by Professor Laia Bécares, explores the role of racism, experienced over the life course, in structuring ethnic inequalities in health in later life. Anchored around key tenets of life course theory, Professor Bécares will present findings from recent and upcoming publications that centre racism as the root cause of ethnic inequalities, exploring mechanisms that patterns stark ethnic inequities in later life.
About the speaker:Laia is Professor of Social Science and Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. Her research interests are in studying the pathways by which the discrimination and marginalisation of people and places lead to social and health inequalities across the life course, with a specific focus on racism and heteronormativity as systems of oppression.
