Understanding the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequality in the UK (CoDE): Application for Transition Funding

由于族裔动态中心(CODE)的工作，英国对族裔不平等的认识有了很大发展。CODE成功地实施了一项创新的研究方案，追求具有挑战性的科学目标，并与一系列非学术伙伴密切合作，以影响政策辩论和发展。在迅速变化的政治和政策背景下，我们提出了进一步的、雄心勃勃的工作方案，将我们带向新的方向，并有明确的重点。我们将超越细微差别的描述，理解种族不平等的过程和原因，并直接建立在我们在跨学科和混合方法工作方面的既定经验基础上。此外，我们将使用联合制作的方法，与包括BBC等关键公共机构、大学、政党、少数民族非政府组织、活动家和个人在内的一系列合作伙伴合作，以最大限度地扩大我们的社会影响和带来有意义的变化的方式来框架和开展我们的研究。我们的总体目标是：-了解种族不平等如何在一系列相互关联的领域中发展-研究这些过程如何与其他社会类别相关并被其他社会类别塑造，如性别、阶级、宗教和世代-了解种族不平等是如何形成的，并嵌入到机构空间和实践中-与政策和实践合作伙伴密切合作，有意义地解决持久的种族不平等问题-追求以跨学科混合方法和联合制作为核心的方法发展-实现持续的高质量国际学术影响通过分为四个工作包的研究计划，我们将研究(1)高等教育，(2)文化生产和消费，(3)政治，代表和政党，以及(4)对我们在这些领域的工作产生政策和体制影响。此外，我们还在开展一项关于严重精神疾病的工作方案。这些一揽子工作将围绕我们的雄心壮志组织，即通过注重对族裔不平等的制度化生产和应对，了解、解释和影响族裔不平等。我们方法论的核心是跨学科和混合方法的工作。我们的量化工作将主要是次要数据分析，充分利用英国的广泛资源(例如，了解社会、高等教育毕业生目的地调查、英国选举研究、英国国家统计局纵向研究)。我们的定性工作将以民族志方法为基础，这些方法关注不同地点和机构中社会进程的不同表现方式。我们尤其从机构人种学的方法中得到信息，该方法优先关注生活中的、日常的不平等经验，但目的是澄清这些经验所嵌入的更广泛的社会关系，以及它们是通过什么方式形成的。因此，机构民族志将从探索直接参与机构环境的人的经验开始，作为了解机构的结构和实践如何塑造个人经验和实践的途径。通过我们的工作，我们将整合和动员研究证据，与广泛的合作伙伴接触，以影响政策和实践的发展、公众理解和机构实践。除了产生学术影响(期刊文章、会议、研讨会、时事通讯)，我们的调查结果将通过成熟的传播形式(博客、推特、政策简报)和新兴的传播形式(播客和直播、博物馆和艺术展、个人叙事在线门户)直接传达给政策和倡导组织，我们将直接与这些组织合作实现变革。

Understandings of ethnic inequalities in the UK have developed substantially as a result of the work of The Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). CoDE has successfully carried out an innovative programme of research, pursued challenging scientific objectives, and worked closely with a range of non-academic partners to impact on policy debates and development. In a rapidly evolving political and policy context, we propose a further, ambitious programme of work that takes us in new directions with a distinct focus. We will move beyond nuanced description to understanding processes and causes of ethnic inequalities, and build directly on our established experience in interdisciplinary and mixed methods working. In addition, we will use a co-production approach, working with a range of partners, including key public institutions such as the BBC, universities, political parties, ethnic minority NGOs, activists, and individuals, in order to frame and carry out our research in ways that will maximise our societal impact and lead to meaningful change. Our overarching objectives are to:-Understand how ethnic inequalities develop in a range of interconnected domains-Examine how these processes relate to and are shaped by other social categories, such as gender, class, religion and generation-Understand how ethnic inequalities take shape, and are embedded, in institutional spaces and practices-Work closely with policy and practice partners to meaningfully address enduring ethnic inequalities-Pursue methodological developments with interdisciplinary mixed methods and co-production at their core-Achieve ongoing high quality international academic impactThrough a research plan divided into four work packages, we will examine ethnic inequalities in (1) higher education, (2) cultural production and consumption, (3) politics, representation and political parties and (4) pursue policy and institutional impact with our work in these areas. Alongside this, we are also conducting a programme of work on severe mental illness. These work packages will be organised around our ambition to understand, explain and impact on ethnic inequalities through a focus on institutional production of and responses to ethnic inequalities. At the core of our methodological approach is interdisciplinary and mixed methods working. Our quantitative work will be predominantly secondary data analysis, making the best use of the wide range of resources in the UK (e.g. Understanding Society, Destination of Leavers of Higher Education Survey, British Election Study, ONS Longitudinal Studies). Our qualitative work will be based around ethnographic approaches that are attentive to the ways in which social processes play out differently in different sites and institutions. We are informed especially by the approach of institutional ethnography which prioritises an attention to the lived, everyday experience of inequality, but aims to clarify the wider social relations in which such experiences are embedded and by which they are shaped. Thus institutional ethnographies will be developed which begin with exploring the experience of those directly involved in institutional settings as a route to understanding how structures and practices of institutions shape individuals' experiences and practices.Throughout our work we will integrate and mobilise research evidence to engage with a full range of partners in order to influence policy and practice development, public understanding and institutional practice. As well as having academic impact (journal articles, conferences, seminars, newsletters), our findings will be communicated directly to policy and advocacy organisations through a combination of well developed (blogs, Twitter, policy briefings) and emerging (podcasts and live streaming, museum and art exhibitions, online portal for individual narratives) forms of dissemination, and we will work directly with these organisations to achieve change.