The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) supports academic dialogue and real-time action on one of the most urgent global challenges of our time: achieving meaningful, intersectional engagement with vulnerable populations. Bringing together an outstanding team from across the University of St Andrews and beyond, CMR facilitates cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary debate, and knowledge application to promote engagement with minority issues.
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Season 5 / Episode 4
When healthcare research, biomedical datasets, and diagnostic tools are built predominantly around white, Western populations, what happens to everyone else? In Episode 4, Hani Nasar, Master’s student in Health Data Science at the University of St Andrews, explores the persistent underrepresentation of minority ethnic groups in healthcare research—and the real-world consequences of being left out. From…
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My Life In… Podcast | Episode 5
In this episode of My Life In…, Dr Ana Gutiérrez Garza speaks with Alejandra Ancheita, founder and Executive Director of ProDESC (Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), about her professional journey defending labour, environmental, and human rights in Mexico. Together, they reflect on the realities of working alongside Indigenous peoples, migrant workers, and communities affected…
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Congratulations to Dr. Camila F Marinelli
We are delighted to congratulate Dr Camila Ferreira Marinelli, CMR Associate and researcher at the Centre for Minorities Research, on the publication of her chapter in the new Berghahn Books volume: Educating Otherwise: Contexts, Interventions and Radical Possibilities of Anthropological Learning Camila’s chapter, “Decolonial Praxis: The Experiences of Indigenous Academics in Brazil,” draws on her doctoral research at…
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