When data sources disagree: deepening intersectional understanding of social mobility by Dr Orian Brook
Venue
Hybrid: CMB Practice Suite and OnlineDescription
About the seminar:
I have been researching social inequalities in creative work for the past six years, using data sources including the ONS Labour Force Survey and Longitudinal Study, a primary web survey and interviews with 250 creative workers, and most recently the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes dataset comprising linked administrative data. Broadly these sources agree on the classed, gendered and racialised inequalities in getting in and getting on in creative careers. But there are sometimes disagreements, for example in how respondents narrate their experiences of social mobility in creative work, and in particular the experiences of respondents from minoritised ethnic groups compared to the results of statistical modelling. In my talk I will highlight some of these discrepancies and discuss how they deepened our understanding of the importance of absolute and relative social mobility in how it is experienced, and how social mobility can be understood in the context of migration and racism.
By Dr Orian Brook
Orian Brook is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy and holds an ESRC ADR Fellowship. She studies social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy, and is the co-author of the book “Culture is bad for you” and “A Class Act Social mobility and the creative industries” published with the Sutton Trust.