Write-Up

Include community or lived experience advisors as co-authors.

In the introduction, be explicit about the role of racism (at multiple levels) in social needs and social care.

Use researcher reflexivity statements to describe your/your co-authors' positionality (e.g. not only sociodemographic identities but also experience of social needs, profession in healthcare or social service sectors) and how this could have affected your study.

If your study includes race/ethnicity data, explicitly describe 1) the rationale for including it; 2) what it is a proxy for; 3) how it was recorded; and 4) the rationale for its use in analyses, including as a reference category.

Contextualize your findings within the setting of injustice and liberation. Rather than seeing communities as lacking, identify what has been taken from communities to keep them from being self-sufficient and healthy. What does this research to do help empower and rebuild communities that have been harmed by exploitation and racism?

Review your citations and if you are not citing scholars of color, cast a wider net for papers you can cite.