Understanding Inequalities Project featured in award-nominated poverty and inequality documentary
Tue 2 June 2020
The Understanding Inequalities Project has featured as part of a 2019 documentary series titled ‘Darren McGarvey’s Scotland’, which has been nominated for two awards to be announced in June 2020.
The popular BBC Scotland series provided a hard-hitting examination of the poverty and inequality impacting on people and communities across both urban and rural parts of Scotland.
Episode 2 focused on crime and was filmed in the City of Edinburgh. It featured Professor Susan McVie, Director of the Understanding Inequalities project, who offered insights into the work of the project and wider research evidence on crime, justice and inequalities.
Driving around different parts of Edinburgh with Darren, Susan shares her expertise on the effects of poverty on criminality and talks about aspirations in young people from different social backgrounds.
“If the opportunities aren’t there, it doesn’t matter how hard you work, you’re never going to manage to escape from your own circumstances.”
– Professor Susan McVie
The series has been nominated for:
- Royal Television Society Scotland Award 2020 for Documentary and Specialist Factual
- 2020 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils
Find out more about the Understanding Inequalities Project
Find out more about the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime