Conversations on Urban Ageing and Structural Racism

James Nazroo from the University of Manchester will host a conversation with Dharmi Kapadia and Atiha Chaudry about racism, ageing and urban environments.

Atiha Chaudry is Chair of the Greater Manchester BME Network and has over 25 years of experience within the public, voluntary and community sectors. Recently Aitha was part of the Uncertain Futures project at Manchester Art Gallery and will be sharing some of the findings.

Dharmi Kapadia is a lecturer from the University of Manchester whose research focusses on racism, health, mental health and older people. Dharmi is a member of the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), where she is Co-Investigator of the ESRC COVID Rapid Response project, 'Ethnic and Racial Inequality in a Time of Crisis'.

The Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group brings together transdisciplinary perspectives on ageing populations and changing urban environments. Within these perspectives there are common principals that underline our research interests; these include, addressing inequalities, using co-production, spatial justice and influencing public policy. To better understand how we can apply these principals in our research we have developed the Conversations on Urban Ageing series.

This conversation series brings together international speakers to discuss topical issues relating to researching ageing in urban environments. Each conversation focusses on a cross-cutting theme with one or two speakers talking on the topic and being engaged in further conversation with an interviewer from MUARG.

The Conversation on Urban Ageing and Structural Racism is the fifth conversation for 2021/22.