Addressing Ethnic Inequalities in Scotland – Nov 2023

A project investigating the role of community-based organisations in mitigating the impact of poverty and mental health inequalities among Scottish racialized minority women is providing a lens on the under-addressed issue of ethnic inequalities in Scotland. Some findings from the literature review of the project, by Centre of Health Policy PhD student, Khutso Dunbar, are being shared with news outlets to highlight the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, as well as the extent of the worsening socio-economic disparities within Scotland’s racialized communities. 

Khutso is also part of the NYU Partnership and contributed as one of the PhD panellists in the recent Transatlantic Mental Health Symposium in New York this May. Ethnic inequalities were a key theme of this year’s event and there were valuable insights gained from the knowledge exchange of how ethnic inequalities manifest within various contexts. 

In her capacity as a research assistant for the Strathclyde Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network, Khutso also recently produced a report highlighting wider intersecting inequalities in Scotland and the UK. In October, she was one of the three selected speakers for the SGSAH & SGSSS Black History Month event, presenting on the topic of categorization and the impact of identity frames on marginalization. This December, she will be presenting aspects of her PhD to Glasgow Flourish because Glasgow has the highest population of racialized minorities in Scotland, most of which are concentrated in areas of high deprivation- an issue which is one of the key focus points of her research. As Scotland’s demographic changes, research such as this is key in exploring different solutions to attenuate ethnic inequalities.