Equality and diversity

Projects include:

• Manuela Galetto and Fuk Ying Tse, Birmingham, are conducting a sectoral analysis of UK gender pay gap reporting.
• Deborah Dean and Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University of London, with funding from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account and WBS Impact Fund, are evaluating the effects of Clean Break Theatre Company's work with professionals in the criminal justice sector.
• Umar Boodoo and Miguel Macias, DBA student at WBS, are working on theorising reproduction of inequalities in market-driven sustainability transitions.
• Anne-marie Greene (University of York, IRRU Associate Fellow), Deborah Dean, Sarah Bartley (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Caoimhe McAvinchey (Queen Mary University of London) as part of their AHRC-funded project Women Theatre Justice, considered the significance of long-term practices of care in an organisation during COVID-19 lockdown.
• Disability and employment: Kim Hoque, with Nick Bacon, Cass, and Vicki Wass and Melanie Jones, Cardiff, used WERS 2011 data to explore the impact of High Performance Work Practices on employment and well-being outcomes for disabled people, the impact of the recession on disabled people, and employment outcomes for carers.
• Labour market regulations and migration post-Brexit: Guglielmo Meardi, with funding from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account and the University of Warwick Impact Fund, started a project with the collaboration of Claire Evans on the potentials of labour market regulations to provide control of immigration after Brexit, including a comparison of other countries outside, but trading with, the EU (Canada, Switzerland and Norway).