Hiranthi Jayaweera is a Senior Researcher at COMPAS, primarily working on projects in the Citizenship and Belonging, Urban Change and Settlement, and Welfare clusters.
Hiranthi has a DPhil in Sociology and has researched, taught and written about issues related to social divisions, particularly gender and ethnic divisions in the UK.
Before working at COMPAS she was a researcher at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. Her work focused on barriers to care for low income childbearing women, and included analysing data on ethnic minority families in the Millennium Cohort Study.
Selected Publications
Jayaweera, H. (2010) "Health and access to health care of migrants in the UK", Health Briefing Paper May 2010, Race Equality Foundation
Jayaweera, H. and Quigely, M. (2010) "Health status, health behaviour and healthcare use among migrants in the UK: Evidence from mothers in the Millennium Cohort Study" Social Science and Medicine 71(5): 1002-1010
Jayaweera, H. and Anderson, B. (2008) Migrant workers and vulnerable employment: a review of existing data. TUC Commission on Vulnerable Employment
Jayaweera, H. and Choudhury, T. (2008) Immigration, faith and cohesion: evidence from local areas with significant Muslim populations. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation