Our new #AcademicintheSpotlight series highlights social scientists doing innovative & exciting research on the UK and the EU.
Our first featured academic is Dr Neema Begum, @NeemaBegum, who works on the political representation of ethnic minorities in UK politics.
Watch this video to find out all about her work 🔻
@EthnicityUK | @uomsoss | @OfficialUoM | @UoMNews | @BhamPolsis | @birminghamalum
Neema’s work uses a mix of quantitative data, focus groups and interviews to analyse BAME voters.
Her PhD thesis was a sustained, mixed-methods analysis of BAME voting in the 2016 referendum that analysed the interaction of race, class and gender in voting behaviour. 🗳
She found that BAME support for Brexit was consistently underestimated.
BAME voters who opted for Brexit shared many of the same concerns as other groups, with one difference: perceived unfairness in the immigration system was a driving factor behind their vote.
In this blog for us back in 2018, she explained the complex motivations of BAME Remainers and Brexiters.
ukandeu.ac.uk/minority-ethni…
Neema has also written about the experience of being a women of colour (WOC) and an Early Career Researcher in the academy, in this article for @pollstudiesreview
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Just yesterday, Neema's research with @ProfSobolewska on the under-representation of ethnic minorities in local government, was reported on by @inzyrashid for @SkyNews.
news.sky.com/story/lack-of-…
You can read Neema's latest blog reflecting on her research here🔻
ukandeu.ac.uk/neema-begum-br…
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