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User-focused research to increase the diversity of funding programme participation
22/02/2024
The Royal Academy of Engineering has commissioned CRAC to undertake user-focused research to develop insights and make recommendations, to help broaden the diversity of the Academy’s Research Programmes.
In addition to analysing existing administrative data on applicants, the evalua...
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Identifying Good Practice Relating To Inclusive Selection Within The Future Leaders Fellowship Scheme
27/11/2023
UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) commissioned the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) to conduct research about institutions’ selection practice within the Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) Scheme. The Future Leaders Fellowship is UKRI’s unified flagship scheme seeking to dev...
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Innovative Applicant Selection Models In PGR Admissions
10/03/2023
The University of Cambridge has commissioned the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) to help evaluate a project that aims to halve the Offer Rate Gap (ORG) in postgraduate research study admissions for UK-domiciled Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani applicants by 2025. In a four-year pro...
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Establishing the diversity of researchers eligible for early career fellowships
28/10/2020
The Royal Society commissioned CRAC to analyse existing data about staff in UK HE institutions in order to develop a diversity profile of those eligible for its early career fellowship schemes, principally postdoctoral researchers. The report provides such profiles against which the Royal Society...
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Qualitative research on barriers to progression for disabled scientists
28/10/2020
As part of work to address barriers to participation and success in STEM, the Royal Society commissioned the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) to undertake a qualitative research project to understand the low level of disclosure of disability amongst scientists in the academic workfor...
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NOC Gender Equality Survey
31/05/2019
We assisted the National Oceanography Centre by implementing a gender equality survey with its staff and PhD researchers, to underpin an application for an Athena SWAN award. CRAC worked with the NOC to design the survey and bring independence to its implementation, analysis and reporting.
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Development of a toolkit to increase the diversity of staff working in the arts
03/04/2019
CRAC supported the Clear Company to develop a new toolkit of resources and guidance for the Arts Council, to help the arts and cultural organisations it funds in an effort to increase the diversity of the staff they attract, select, recruit and promote.
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Graduate Development Programme – Review and Recommendations
27/07/2018
In early 2018 CRAC and the Clear Company provided a confidential review of the recruitment and selection processes for HM Treasury’s Graduate Development Programme, in order to optimise the diversity of its graduate intake.
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Engineering graduate recruitment practices: what is needed to improve outcomes for minority engineering graduates?
12/06/2018
CRAC's research has established that employment outcomes for recent UK engineering graduates of ethnic minority background are less positive than for their white counterparts, even after controlling for factors such as attainment and university attended. The extent of these differences is greater...
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Exploring equality and diversity using REF2014 environment statements
11/06/2014
This experimental project was commissioned by HEFCE to investigate what could be learned about equality and diversity (E&D) in the research environment, based on analysis of the 1911 ‘People' sections of the Environment Statements submitted by HE institutions to the 2014 Research Excell...
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Evaluation of the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships
11/06/2013
CRAC/Vitae has provided the analysis and reporting of a mid-point evaluation of the Doctoral Training Partnerships scheme implemented by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Surveys and institutional visits were undertaken by NERC’s Training Advisory Board, which provided the so...
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Evaluation of the national Medical Careers website (for DoH, 2010, repeated in 2012)
06/06/2012
UniversitiesUK, Research Councils UK, HEFCE and other research funders jointly invited CRAC to review progress made nationally in implementing the Concordat. This agreement enshrines principles for human resources, career support and training for research staff. The review was deliberately constr...
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3-year review of UK progress with implementation of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers (2011)
08/06/2011
UniversitiesUK, Research Councils UK, HEFCE and other research funders jointly invited CRAC to review progress made nationally in implementing the Concordat. This agreement enshrines principles for human resources, career support and training for research staff. The review was deliberately constr...
