Workstream 1 – Career Lifecycle
We aim to identify relationships between key career and life events and their mutual impacts, making recommendations for reducing barriers to inclusion across the career.
Examples: recruitment, selection, socialisation, performance appraisal, and life course events such as perimenopause, caring responsibilities, health, disability & neurodiversity.
We will co-design and evaluate strategies to reduce barriers to inclusive research & innovation cultures and careers.
Workstream 2 – Research Process
We aim to determine how EDI can be embedded in the research process and impact those career-defining decisions, like funding and publications.
We want to know what works, in what context, and why?
Examples: conception of projects, their conduct, evaluation and dissemination including fieldwork, lab work, mobility (travelling for work), dissemination and impact.
We will increase the diversity literacy of researchers and research leaders, and co-design and evaluate strategies for embedding equity across research activities.
Workstream 3 – Organisation of work
We aim to identify how work can be organised in a variety of research workplaces to create enabling workspaces.
Examples: labs, offices, fieldwork, workloads, working patterns, hybrid working, workspace, remote working, and industrial relations.
We will co-design practical strategies for creating workplaces and workspaces that enable all researchers to thrive.