Gender
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Assess the effectiveness of interventions that can promote a resilient and adaptable workforce and the degree to which these need to protect or promote freelancers and under-represented groups in the workforce.
- How is social change impacting on change in risks to workforce health and safety (e.g. ageing workforce, gender profile, disabled people, vulnerable workers, precarious work, remote work)? What competence is required to ensure managers and supervisors can support the workforce?
- Understanding gaps in finance, whether in particular sectors, for particular people (e.g., women) or compared with overseas is always of interest.
- What are the barriers to different groups engaging with civil society and youth sectors?
- How do we improve representation and diversity of the digital workforce? How do we better understand the challenges and opportunities for inclusion across different social groups, taking into account: ethnicity, gender, age, disability status, regional difference? How do we make policies that support equitable progression and reward across the sector?
- What are the barriers faced by founders from diverse backgrounds in accessing finance? How does this vary across different social groups (e.g. ethnicity, gender, age, neurodiversity, disability status)?
- Analyse the elements of policy and regulation that could be brought in to better regulate men’s and women’s games, taking into account cultural contexts and case examples from other sports and internationally.
- Which groups are vulnerable to which types of digital exclusion?
- How does career progressions differ for those with different protected characteristics and across socio-demographic backgrounds?