The Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the career progress of disabled researchers in intersection with race, gender and caring responsibility
Led by Dr Preethi Premkumar at London South Bank University with co-investigators Dr Rachel Grant and Prof Nicki Martin also from LSBU, with partner film producer Dr Dominic Rees-Roberts at Borderpoint Films.
The Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the career progress of disabled researchers. Complicated by race, gender and caring responsibility, disabled researchers struggled to access the appropriate support. The aim of this 12-month project is to investigate the sustained impact of the pandemic on the career progress of disabled researchers who are multiply marginalised by other marginalised characteristics, namely race, gender and/or caring responsibilities. The project consists of the following data collection stages,
(1) Group Discussion: a group of marginalised researchers will discuss the enablers and barriers of the career progress during and after the pandemic. The group will consist of six researchers and senior management representatives from these marginalised backgrounds. Analysis of the group discussion will guide the development of questions for an online survey in the next stage,
(2) Online Survey: a survey will be co-designed by researchers will the above-mentioned marginalised characteristics and administered to at least 500 researchers at universities and research institutions nationwide. The data from the survey will be analysed statistically to identify the enablers and barriers of career progress, and
(3) Interviews: 20 researchers primarily marginalised by disability but secondarily by race, gender and/or caring responsibilities will be interviewed about their lived experience of the enablers and barriers to career progress during the pandemic and ways to address the barriers. An impact acceleration taskforce will be formed to engage with key governance bodies in enabling organisational changes in policies. A promotional video, talks at conferences and published journal articles will further disseminate the research.
Full Economic Costing (FEC) £76,682.00 (80% £61,325.60)