Dharmi Kapadia becomes Director of CoDE
The Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) starts the new year with a new director: . Dharmi is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester. She joined CoDE in 2012 as a PhD student and has worked in CoDE as a Research Associate and as Co-Investigator on many CoDE research projects. Dharmi became Deputy Director in 2025 and from January 2026 is CoDE Director.
Dharmi鈥檚 research focuses on racism, health, mental health and older people. She is currently working on research looking at how adverse life experiences and negative experiences with state institutions impact upon mental illness and mental healthcare in collaboration with the NHS Race & Health Observatory. Dharmi is also Co-Investigator of the English Longitudinal 91直播 of Ageing (ELSA) and Co-Investigator of the WELL-Bradford study, which looks at end of life care in a diverse sample of frail people.
I鈥檓 looking forward to my new role and with the help and support of many colleagues and mentors within and outside of CoDE, I鈥檝e had a lot of training and preparation to direct our Centre! I will be collaborating with colleagues, old and new, to think about the future direction of CoDE in terms of what research we want to pursue, the debates we want to continue to contribute to, and how our work can make a real difference to people affected by racism and racial inequalities.
Dharmi and I have been working closely together through CoDE for several years and I look forward to supporting her work as Director. I鈥檓 very proud of all the work that CoDE has done over more than a decade and it鈥檚 clear that there remains an urgent need for the high quality research, engagement and impact work that CoDE does to address racism and racial, ethnic and religious inequalities
Our outgoing CoDE Director, , has swapped roles with Dharmi and now becomes Deputy Director. Bridget has recently been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust which will be starting later this year.