As major public funders of research and innovation (R&I), UKRI’s research councils, Innovate UK, and the British Academy have a responsibility to ensure a thriving and diverse R&I system, now and in the future.
ESRC, AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK and the British Academy have jointly provided £3.4 million to fund the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Caucus.
EDICa’s (EDI Caucus) work will encompass all facets of the R&I sector, spanning humanities and science, business, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects.
The EDICa will provide high-quality research evidence on EDI that informs policy and practice in the R&I system.
Professor Kate Sang of the Heriot-Watt University Business School leads the multidisciplinary EDICa team. Their funding started in January 2023 and will continue until January 2026.
There are three EDICa workstreams:
Workstream one: career lifecycle
Identifying relationships between key career and life events and their mutual impacts, making recommendations for reducing barriers to inclusion across the career
Workstream two: research process
Determining how EDI can be embedded in the research process and impact those career-defining decisions, like funding and publications. What works, in what context, and why?
Workstream three: organisation of work
Identifying how work can be organised in a variety of research workplaces to create enabling workspaces.
As part of the EDICa £1 million ‘flexible fund’, each workstream will have one funding opportunity per year from 2023 to 2025 to support a number of projects.
Contact the EDICa team
Email: edicaucus@hw.ac.uk
Twitter: @edi_caucus