UK ethnic minority cancer researchers: their origins, destinations and sex

TY - CHAP

T1 - UK ethnic minority cancer researchers

T2 - their origins, destinations and sex

AU - Begum, Mursheda

AU - Roe, Philip

AU - Webber, Richard

AU - Lewison, Grant

PY - 2017/10

Y1 - 2017/10

N2 - We identified the names of all authors of Web of Science papers on cancer in 2009-11 and in 2014-16 with a UK address, and listed those in each postcode area (the first one or two letters of UK postcodes). Their ethnicity or national origins were determined from their names with the OriginsInfo database into seven main groups; African, Asian excluding South Asian, South Asian, Western European, Eastern European, Islamic World, and the UK/Ireland. We were thus able to determine the geographical distribution within the UK of members of thesix immigrant groups in terms of their fractional contributions to cancer research. The percentage of research contributions from scientists with non-British (or Irish) names rose from 37% in 2009-11 to 39.4% in 2014-16.It was higher in London, and rose from 47% to 51%. The largest ethnic contributions were from Europe: in 2014-16 the percentages were 15.4% from Western Europe and 3.7% from eastern Europe. There were 8.1% of contributions from South Asia, and 5.6% from the rest of Asia; the largest were in four areas of London, and in Cambridge and Oxford. Female participation is still less than that of males, but it is increasing by about 2% per year.

AB - We identified the names of all authors of Web of Science papers on cancer in 2009-11 and in 2014-16 with a UK address, and listed those in each postcode area (the first one or two letters of UK postcodes). Their ethnicity or national origins were determined from their names with the OriginsInfo database into seven main groups; African, Asian excluding South Asian, South Asian, Western European, Eastern European, Islamic World, and the UK/Ireland. We were thus able to determine the geographical distribution within the UK of members of thesix immigrant groups in terms of their fractional contributions to cancer research. The percentage of research contributions from scientists with non-British (or Irish) names rose from 37% in 2009-11 to 39.4% in 2014-16.It was higher in London, and rose from 47% to 51%. The largest ethnic contributions were from Europe: in 2014-16 the percentages were 15.4% from Western Europe and 3.7% from eastern Europe. There were 8.1% of contributions from South Asia, and 5.6% from the rest of Asia; the largest were in four areas of London, and in Cambridge and Oxford. Female participation is still less than that of males, but it is increasing by about 2% per year.

M3 - Conference paper

SP - 568

EP - 579

BT - Proceedings of ISSI 2017

PB - University of Wuhan, China

CY - Wuhan, China

ER -