Equalstrength

Equalstrength is a Horizon Europe funded research project which is coordinated by UCD and housed and managed at the Geary Institute for Public Policy. The team consists of Principal Investigator Dr. Mathew Creighton (UCD School of Sociology & Geary Institute for Public Policy, Project Manager, Emma Barron (UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy), Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Daniel Capistrano ( UCD School of Education) and research administrator, Magdalena Bryla (UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy).  The consortium comprises of 10 partners with a budget of €2.3 million.

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About the project

Ethnic, racial and religious minorities experience discriminatory behaviour and prejudicial attitudes in multiple life domains, which accumulates across the life course. This continuous exposure perpetuates minorities’ subordinate position across generations. The main contribution of EqualStrength is to investigate cumulative and structural forms of discrimination, outgroup prejudice and hate crimes against ethnic, racial and religious minorities from a cross-setting and intersectional perspective. We deploy innovative, targeted and effective methods, which include field experiments, population-level secondary survey data, meso-level policy analysis and targeted data collection to include the perspective of minority groups who directly confront discrimination.