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  5. Goal 1: No Poverty
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Research and Innovation

Inequality in the medical job market

Research at Queen Mary has shown how disadvantages persist, even once you make it to medical school. Understanding this issue is key to creating a fairer system for doctors in training and building a health service that reflects the community it serves. Dr Ashley’s research provides medical schools with some steps towards a fairer system for trainees from less privileged backgrounds, starting by uncovering the hidden curriculum.

The Partnership for Black People’s Health

The Partnership for Black People’s Health is a community-led research project that engages Black African and Black Caribbean communities in research to reduce the widely recognised disproportionate burden of health inequalities they face in all areas of medicine and public health.

Improving the oral health of vulnerable children

Queen Mary’s Institute of Dentistry is tackling childhood tooth decay—one of the UK’s most common preventable diseases—through community research and school-based interventions. The programme supports children in deprived areas with preventive care, education, and dental access, working alongside local authorities and NHS partners. By focusing on early prevention and community engagement, the project strengthens lifelong oral health and reduces health inequalities. It exemplifies how targeted, collaborative research can improve wellbeing in vulnerable populations.

Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (RCSIP)

The Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (RCSIP) is a working group of scholars and advanced graduate students in economics in the UK and abroad, and hosts workshops on the themes of inequality, poverty and mobility for in-depth discussion of complete papers.

Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED)

The Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) at Queen Mary, University of London, was established in 2005 and is a prominent international research centre at the leading edge of equality and diversity research.

CRED is committed to critical scholarship in researching equality and diversity and seeks to be guided by principles of social justice and inclusivity. In the contemporary political and economic context, research on equality, inequalities and diversity is vital to advance theoretical understanding and to appraise the impact of contemporary public policies internationally and nationally, and both at the level of the organization and the individual. Our work questions taken-for-granted ideas and solutions in the equality, diversity and inclusion space and sheds light on neglected aspects of equality, as well as persistent inequalities.

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