Ethnic minority life: experts give fullest picture yet

29 Oct 2013 One of the most complete insights into ethnic minority life in contemporary England and Wales is to be drawn together at a University of Manchester event this week (30 October). Thirteen reports by world renowned academics from the University, cover everything from where minorities live, where they come from, what languages they speak, what they do, how healthy they are and even how British they feel. The series of briefings are funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and produced by the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), which is itself funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). CoDE which is the UK's largest research centre on ethnicity, jointly based at The University of Manchester and University of Glasgow, is also being officially launched today at the event. The analyses all use recently published data from the 2011 Census. CoDE Director, Professor James Nazroo from The University of Manchester, said "An unequivocal message has emerged from these 13 Census briefings: as a society we are becoming increasingly ethnically diverse, but social inequalities have continued and are striking in 2011. "And sadly, negative misconceptions about the lives of people in ethnic minority groups are still common.