How can we make sense of the concept of "care" in today's political and economic landscape? After twelve years of austerity, large scale public funding cuts to education, state support for low-income communities, and essential healthcare services have all led to a crisis of care - a crisis thrown into sharp relief by the Covid-19 pandemic and the structural inequalities it continues to amplify.

In this event, Dharmi Kapadia who led on the recent NHS Race and Health Observatory Report on ethnic inequalities in healthcare, and Dzifa Afonu, artist and clinical psychologist, will reflect on the concept of care in relation to austerity, institutional inequalities, and the ways communities have built and are building networks of care in response.

'#ReconstructionWork: The Politics of Care' is produced in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).

Supported by Arts Council England.

This event will take place online.

Live closed captions will be provided.

About the speakers

Dzifa Afonu describes themselves as a seeker, dreamer and creative spirit. A clinical psychologist by training they bringing a decolonising and deconstructing energy to the field of mental health and wellbeing. They are also self taught artist fascinated with the art of every day life, the creative nature of the human mind, and communication through image colour and metaphor. They are dedicated to supporting those in frontline work with marginalised people. With over 20 years of experience in activism and 10 years experience working in the NHS they bring a personal insight into the possibilities, limitations and places for growth in both institutional and grassroots organising systems. Their work explores ways we can bridge the gaps between work and play and grapples with finding new ways of building community and supporting leadership that challenge grind/burnout culture and create opportunities for real freedom.

Dr Dharmi Kapadia is a lecturer in Sociology at University of Manchester and a member of the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). Her research focusses on racism, health, mental health and older people. She works with the Synergi Collaborative Centre and is Co-Investigator on the ‘Ethnic Inequalities in Later Life’ project funded by The Nuffield Foundation. She was a member of the editorial board for the CoDE Dynamics of Diversity Census Briefings and co-author of two briefings on ethnic inequalities in unemployment. She was Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), exploring the links between social networks, poverty and ethnicity

About CoDE

The Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) is an ESRC funded research centre providing theoretically informed, empirically grounded and policy-relevant research on ethnic inequalities in the UK. They bring together expertise from a range of disciplines including sociology, demography, economics, history, geography, political science, cultural studies and seek to communicate their research to a wide range of audiences.

CoDE has recently launched EVENS – Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS). This is the UK’s first and largest survey of its kind to document the impact of Covid-19, and the lockdowns, on 17,000 ethnic and religious minority people.

www.ethnicity.ac.uk

About Stuart Hall Foundation

The Stuart Hall Foundation was established in 2015 by Professor Stuart Hall’s family, friends and colleagues. The Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and building a growing network of Stuart Hall Foundation scholars and artists in residence.

www.stuarthallfoundation.org