Shabna Begum, Head of Research at Runnymede Trust

Shabna Begum (PhD) oversees the research delivery of all major projects and ongoing programmes in Runnymede Trust’s research portfolio. Shabna's expertise includes racial inequalities in education and in access to housing as well as how gender and generation intersect with race.

Posts by Shabna Begum, Head of Research at Runnymede Trust

The hands of a man and a woman doing their finances with a calculator, computer and some papers.

Triple Jeopardy: women of colour, austerity and the cost-of-living crisis

The cost-of-living crisis dominates our headlines and anchors much of our political discussions, and yet there is still little understanding of how the experiences of this crisis intersect with race, gender and class.Far from being ‘in this together', working class ethnic minority women, including migrants and refugees, are among those worst affected by this evolving crisis and continue to be harmed by the structural racism that underpins our economic and political systems.