EVENS podcast with Dharmi Kapadia

Dharmi Kapadia, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and one of the authors of the EVENS book, talks to Rodney Appleyard from the UK Data Service about the launch of the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) – the biggest ever UK research survey into the lived experiences of ethnic minorities throughout Britain.

EVENS is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Over 14,000 people were interviewed for the survey, which was carried out by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), the UK’s leading centre of research into ethnic, racial and religious inequalities, led from the University of Manchester. The data will be available exclusively from the UK Data Service in June and we will be publishing key takeaways and highlights over the coming months. We will also be creating a new training programme that will teach people how to use the datasets.

Dharmi said: “This really is groundbreaking research in the sense that we’ve looked at more ethnic and religious minority groups than ever before. It is the largest survey in Britain… and the method that we used and the partnerships that we created with these voluntary community organisations to try and ensure the content really spoke to the real issues in Britain today really do make this a groundbreaking survey. We hope that this evidence, the knowledge and the insights that we produce from the survey can really be used by a wide variety of people.”