Co-POWeR project to launch on Wednesday 30 June 2021
The Co-POWeR project will explore the ways in which discrimination is worsening the impact of COVID-19 on people in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups in the UK.
In 2020, the School of Law’s Professor Iyiola Solanke (Co-POWeR project’s principal investigator) said “Two viruses – COVID-19 and discrimination – are currently killing in the UK”.
The impact of both cause long-term poor outcomes and the Co-POWeR project will look at their combined impact on practices for wellbeing and resilience across Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Families and Communities (BAMEFC) in the UK.
Co-POWeR is a multi-disciplinary consortium of nine academics from across the UK, eight of whom are members of the Black Female Professors Forum.
Joining Professor Solanke in the consortium are:
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Florence Ayisi, Professor of International Documentary Film from the University of South Wales
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Claudia Bernard, Professor of Social Work & Head of Postgraduate Research at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Gargy Bhattacharyya, Professor of Sociology at University of East London
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Anna Gupta, Professor of Social Work at Royal Holloway
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Raminder Kaur, Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex
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Monica Lakhanpaul, Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at UCL (University College London)
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Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick
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Maria Stokes, Professor of Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation at the University of Southampton.
The Co-POWeR project launch will take place virtually, via Zoom, on Wednesday 30 June 2021, 14.00-16.00 BST
