Dharmi Kapadia, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, shares the outcomes of her new role as Q-Step Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester focusing on research and teaching.
Since I wrote my last blog post, I’m pleased to say that I have a new job! I’m now a Q-Step Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester (the Q in Q-Step stands for quantitative – the type of methods that I’ll be teaching my undergraduate students). My new role focuses on research and teaching in equal parts. So while there’s still plenty turkey rcs data of space for me to be imaginative in creating impact from my research, I’m also using data resources available from the UK Data Service in my teaching materials.
Over the last few months, I worked on a project proposal with colleagues at The University of Manchester. We wanted to investigate the extent and changing nature of ethnic inequalities in older people’s mental and physical health and mortality in the UK over the last 20 years using secondary data that is available to us. After a lot of work (!) we submitted this proposal to the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI). If we’re successful in our application we’ll be using a number of datasets available from the UK Data Service: the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities [1994], the Health Survey for England [1999 & 2004] and Understanding Society [Waves 1 and 6].