![]() ![]() BME youth unemployment is also disproportionately high. The average unemployment was 6.9% - only the mixed group and black group is above this. The Asian/Asian British is the lowest at 5.4%, which is lower than for the White population (6.5%). With regard to ethnicity, according to the 2011 Census, the highest rate of unemployment is 13%, amongst the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group. Over the last year, Nottingham’s unemployment has fallen by 16.5%, but at a slower rate than the regional and national falls in unemployment. The census found the BME population is significantly younger than the rest of the population. This group comprises of: 13.1% Asian/Asian British, 16.9% Black/Black British, 18.0% Mixed ethnic background and 29.8% other ethnic group (including people from Poland, Travellers and Romanians). ![]() According to the 2011 Census, the proportion of BME ethnic groups in Nottingham(shire) is 35.6%. The first wave of migrants to Nottingham in contemporary times came from the Caribbean in the 1950s. Demographic: Ethnic groups The large majority of people who live in Nottingham are White British. Furthermore, it is argued that whilst the structural effects of racism are evident, the effects are often accompanied by increasingly silent and muted discourse on racism, as the terms of articulation, analytical and critical, are dimmed and deleted, distorted and redirected thus creating a situation of ‘racisms without racism’ (Goldberg, 2007, p 360 in Lisa Palmer, 2014). Within this context, discrimination, disadvantage, racism and deprivation in the Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities have become further heightened and intensified. The evidence suggests that recent policies under the auspices of the government's neo-liberal orthodoxy on austerity, namely cuts to the public sector, welfare provision and the academisation of education, are having an adverse impact on the lives communities and people’s futures. Ranked the 20th most deprived city in the UK, Nottingham has a history of pursuing progressive measures for tackling deprivation. Research Summaryĭr Orton is the Cheif Investigator for the NIHR PHIRST-LIght programme.According to the legend, one of Nottingham’s best known figures, Robin Hood, took from the rich and gave to the poor, beginning the tradition of progressive economic redistribution. ![]() She also supervises research BMedSci students, MPH dissertations and doctors in training wanting to undertake academic placements. Public health, primary care databases, STATA, service evaluation, injury epidemiology Teaching Summaryĭr Orton gives lectures on Public Health year 2 BMedSci students. Her research interests centre around injury epidemiology and prevention, including intervention studies, systematic reviews, large data analysis and implementation research. She is now an Associate Professor (University of Nottingham) and Consultant in Public Health (Leicestershire County Council). In 2008 she began public health specialty training in the East Midlands and in 2010 was appointed a part-time lectureship in public health in the Division of Primary Care at the University of Nottingham, working as part of the Injury Epidemiology and Prevention group. In 2003 she joined the National Newborn Hearing Screening Programme where she established the quality assurance systems for neonatal hearing screening across England. After a short-term lectureship in neuroscience at the University of Sheffield she moved to the Loeb Research Institute, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow to study the genetics of inner ear development and then continued this work at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham. Her academic career in the field of hearing research at the University of Keele where she completed a PhD in 1996 investigating the cellular mechanisms of sensory hair cell degeneration and repair. Orton (Liz) is the Director of the Unit of Lifespan and Population Health in the School of Medicine, and the Chief Investigator of the NIHR PHIRST-Light team. ![]()
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