Equality, diversity and inclusion
Our researchers at Leeds University Business School provide expert insights into advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion, both within the workplace and across society. This includes advice on creating inclusive jobs and organisations, analysing the gendered effects of UK child policies, supporting healthcare workers from ethnically diverse communities, and addressing modern slavery in supply chains.
Delve into our blog posts, reports, and podcasts for actionable insights on fostering inclusivity in your organisation or shaping policies that advance equality, diversity, and inclusion across society.
Section links
Spotlight blog posts
Encouraging a four-day working week could make inequality worse, September 2024
Supporting fathers to get more involved at school, August 2023
View all equality, diversity and inclusion blog posts here.
Podcast episodes
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Reports and policy briefs
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“What a difference a dad makes” – Report from the Paternal Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education (PIECE) project, Dr Helen Norman (Leeds University Business School) and Dr Jeremy Davies (Fatherhood Institute), 2023
Research projects
Inclusion in the workplace
- Examining the scope for improving performance through diversity and inclusion in National Highways’ supply chain
- Enhancing the value placed on diversity: from the international classroom to the global workplace
- Developing an inclusive research culture through improving research support practices
- Migrant women in business – a focus on West Yorkshire
- NHS ethnic minorities colleagues wellbeing and culture competence training
- Designing human resource management practices to improve the wellbeing of healthcare workers from BAME backgrounds in the context of COVID-19
- Transformational effects of COVID-19 on inequalities at work: An international analysis of job polarisation, occupational segregation and emerging policy responses
- Can workforce diversity stimulate transformation towards a more sustainable future?
Human rights and social inequality
- Longitudinal study: sex work, violence and HIV reduction in Southern Africa
- Understanding human rights: implications for the management of supply chains
- Predicting inequality from digital textual data
- Climate change, social inequality & psychosocial wellbeing with emerging digital data – a multidisciplinary network between UK and South Korea
Contact us
To find out more about any of the above research, or how you can work with us in these areas, contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk.