Dharmi Kapadia

Biography

I joined the Sociology Department as a Q-Step Lecturer in March 2017. I am also Director of the Cathie Marsh Institute Short Courses, member of the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), and a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow. My main areas of research are ethnic inequalities in health and access to health services. I obtained my PhD in Social Statistics in 2015 from the University of Manchester as part of an ESRC 1 + 3 (MSc and PhD) studentship. I investigated the role of social networks in women's usage of mental health services in the UK, and how this varied by ethnic group. I have also undertaken work looking at ethnic inequalities in the labour market, and the role of social networks in poverty for different ethnic groups. I was a member of the editorial board for the CoDE Dynamics of Diversity Census Briefings and co-author of two briefings on ethnic inequalities in unemployment. I was also a Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), exploring the links between social networks, poverty and ethnicity.

Research Interest

Social Sciences