The Diversity Interest Group has several research projects underway in areas such as age, race and gender.
Gabrielle Messeder, Research Fellow in Ethnography
"Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound" is a project that seeks to explore, document and highlight the creative voices of Black and South Asian experimental sound practitioners working across the fields of noise, sound art, electroacoustic music, soundscape and improvisation. This 18-month project is running from September 2021-March 2023 and is led by Dr. Amit D. Patel of the SOUND/IMAGE Research Group, University of Greenwich.
Ann Dean, Ed D thesis phase full-time year 2
“What are the Employment Prospects of Autistic University Students when Transitioning into the Workplace and considering Disclosing their Neurodivergence’.
Dr Laura William.
2019 PI-ET Cocktail, Whistleblowing and Disability. Leverhulme £10,000 with Dr Wim Vandekerckhove.
Dr Jana Uher
In 2018, awarded a Vice Chancellors Scholarship for the project on Teaching quality at universities: Gender-specific expectations of students and their impact on teaching evaluations.
Dr Laura William
2016 - 60,000 Euros from the European Commission for a pan European project on "Bargaining for productivity: an international comparative study of how productivity is manifested on the collective bargaining agenda". With Dr Graham Symon, Dr Ulke Veersma, Dr Bethania Mendes De Brito Antunes.
Dr Laura William and Prof Sue Corby
2018 - Access to justice: process and outcomes from Employment Tribunals for disabled employees.
Dr Patrick McGurk and Prof Sian Moore
2017 - Research project on the Voluntary Recruitment Code (aka the 'Rooney Rule') in English Football.
Dr Barbara Samaluk
In 2016 awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a research project on the process of work transitions and transnational mobility of qualified young and precarious teachers and social care workers.
Dr Sofia Stathi
Reducing prejudice and improving intergroup attitudes with the use of direct and indirect contact; Identity and (realistic and symbolic) threat in contexts of conflict: the role of interpersonal and intergroup processes; Promoting social change via collective action: majority and minority perspectives.
Dr Kenisha Linton, Prof Jennifer Brown, Prof Jenny Fleming, and Dr Marisa Silvestri
Senior Women in Policing: excellence through difference.
Dr Kenisha Linton, Nona McDuff, and Dr Hans-Joachim Wolfram
Barriers and challenges faced by BME student and staff in higher education: implications for equality.
Dr Michèle Birtel
Reducing intergroup conflict through intergroup contact, mental imagery, mindfulness meditation; Diversity and multiculturalism; Cross-cultural differences in health stigma.