The Buying Social Justice project, which comprises Prof Tessa Wright, Prof Hazel Conley, Dr Joyce Mamode and IER’s Dr Katharina Sarter, launched its toolkit for practitioners on including equality and diversity objectives within public procurement at a well-attended online event on 19 October 2023. At the event, the project team presented key findings from the two-year research project, which have fed into the guidance and good practice examples in the toolkit.

The recording of the session is now available on the project website. The equality and diversity toolkit is available for download from this project website.

First findings of the research project ’Buying social justice through procurement' of which IER's Dr Eva Katharina Sarter is a Co-Investigator, have been presented at the Fifth Fairness at Work Conference in Manchester in January.

Focussing on Scotland and Wales, the presentation comparatively explored the place of gender and race equality in the ‘Fair Work’ agendas in these two countries.