Former coalmining communities are more politically disenchanted than other ‘left behind’ areas – study

Those in ex-mining areas also less likely to vote for new populist and nationalist parties compared to socio-economic counterparts elsewhere. Researchers argue

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 20, 2021 ~5 min

‘Levelling up’ met with widespread scepticism across England, survey study suggests

Researchers say Tories are “right to be worried” about parts of the Home Counties due to fears over the meaning of levelling up. The study also investigates

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 14, 2021 ~6 min


Worsening GP shortages in disadvantaged areas likely to widen health inequalities

Areas of high socioeconomic disadvantaged are being worst hit by shortages of GPs, a trend that is only worsening with time and is likely to widen pre-existing

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 18, 2021 ~6 min

People in England’s poorest towns ‘lose over a decade of good health’, research finds

Cambridge researchers find major health inequalities – as well as a geographic divide – between the most and least deprived English towns. They say that life

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 17, 2020 ~5 min

School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South

Millions of the world’s poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern of widespread, wealth-based inequalities in their countries’ education systems, new research suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 27, 2020 ~6 min

Austerity cuts ‘twice as deep’ in England as rest of Britain

Research finds significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing the biggest drops in local authority spending since 2010.

Mia Gray, Anna Barford • cambridge
Oct. 9, 2018 ~6 min

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