Archived seminar
16 October 2013: An examination of poverty and sexual orientation in the UK (CISC Seminar Series)
Dr Noah Uhrig
At 13:00 in 6.345.
Abstract:
For decades the British equalities agenda has focused on redressing inequalities relating to gender and race/ethnicity, and more recently, researchers have addressed other factors such as age, disability and religious belief, which has given rise to a large and influential body of academic and policy-relevant research in these areas. However, despite sexual orientation being included in all major UK equalities legislation over the past decade, policy-relevant quantitative analyses of inequalities due to sexual orientation remain relatively scarce.
Commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the project focuses on the relationship between sexual orientation and poverty.
It has three core questions:
What evidence is there of a link between specific sexual orientations and poverty?;
If there is a link between sexual orientations and poverty, how and why has this changed over time in the UK and other countries?; and
What should be included in UK anti-poverty strategies in relation to sexual orientation?
The work intends a critical synthesis of extant literature from the UK and abroad, as well as top line analyses of the Integrated Household Surveys and UK Household Longitudinal Study data. Dr Uhrig is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Further information can be found at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/research/centres/centre_cisc/default.aspx