{"id":5113,"date":"2020-06-06T00:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2020-06-06T00:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:36:56","slug":"social-work-expert-asks-whether-covid-19-is-an-equal-opportunity-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2020\/06\/06\/social-work-expert-asks-whether-covid-19-is-an-equal-opportunity-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Social work expert asks whether Covid-19 is an &#8216;equal opportunity disease&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin notes how the Covid-19 pandemic has brought an &#8216;interconnectedness&#8217; across the globe, but asks whether this actually means that we are &#8220;all in it together.&#8221; She comments:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After all, this is a disease that has claimed as victims, both the wealthy and the poor. If Prince Charles and Boris Johnson can both contract Covid-19, then surely this is an equal opportunity disease?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Her findings however severely challenge this assumption and show quite clearly that BAME communities have been worst hit by the Covid-19 crisis since its emergence in the UK. Why? In order to understand how and why minority communities are disproportionately affected by Covid-19, Dr Rajan-Rankin explores a series of interconnected issues, starting with analysis of &#8216;the stripping of NHS funds on the one hand, and the deepening of social inequalities among BAME groups on the other.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cutt.ly\/CovidandBAME\">Read the full article<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1953\/rajan-rankin-sweta\">Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin<\/a> is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Kent. Her interests are in anti-racist social work interventions, race and racialisation, migration and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin notes how the Covid-19 pandemic has brought an &#8216;interconnectedness&#8217; across the globe, but asks whether this actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2020\/06\/06\/social-work-expert-asks-whether-covid-19-is-an-equal-opportunity-disease\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37974,"featured_media":5114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139963,124],"tags":[192010,167396,225024,210820,1080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}