Unravelling Workforce Discrimination in the South East of England

A project to examine a range of forms of discrimination in the workforce of the South East. Project led by Kingston University. CROW’s role was to provide input on the age discrimination issues.

Aims

To investigate the key issues of employment discrimination facing older workers, black and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities from an institutional and individual point of view.
To map discrimination incidences, by sector and target group across the South East.
To deliver a 3 year action plan aimed at all stakeholder institutions in the South East

Outcomes

To produce maps of the location and frequency of discrimination in the region, highlighting 'hot spots' and 'cold spots'
3 dissemination events.
Full report of findings and 3 year strategy plan.

Methodology

Gathering secondary data from organisations on discrimination incidents, mapped against demographic and labour market information to plot 'hot spots'
Review policy and research literature
Questionnaire survey of 900 individuals, both employed and unemployed.
In-depth analysis of 90 individuals from the target groups using 12 target group members as co-ordinators, self-monitoring techniques, interviews and focus groups.
Questionnaire survey of 500 businesses in the SE.
In depth analysis of 50 firms based on an interview with manager/CEO and HR people together, and 5 round tables.
3 awareness raising events for minimum of 50 people.

The project was completed in March 2005.

Funder

SEEDA ESF

http://damson.king.ac.uk
http://www.seeda.co.uk

Project Leader

Dr Peter Garside
E-mail: pete.garside@ntlworld.com
Director, Centre for Economic Research and Intelligence
Kingston University