Call for evidence: Promoting employer action on EDI

Do you have evidence on what works to promote EDI in the workplace?

An important part of Youth Futures Foundation’s approach is to find and generate high-quality evidence to better understand England’s youth unemployment and inactivity challenge and, most importantly, to learn what solutions work to address this. We have commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to conduct research exploring what works to promote employer action and behaviour change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), with a particular focus on young people from Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds. 

To capture this evidence, IES will systematically interrogate academic databases and national and international policy evidence sources for materials to include.

However, there is likely to be good quality evidence that is not in the public domain or that stakeholders wish to recommend to the review. The purpose of this call, therefore, is to capture that evidence.   

We are seeking to identify the following evidence: 

• Studies on what promotes employer action on EDI against the following outcomes of interest: recruitment; retention; progression/development; organisational enablers such as culture, leadership, line management, lived experience; organisational barriers such as resources, norms, unconscious bias; impact on workplace prejudice/discrimination; systemic changes; inclusion.
• Evidence using behavioural insights that promote employer action on EDI.
• Evaluation and research studies that capture outcome measures, ideally with a comparison group or pre/post-measures.
• From the UK or OECD countries.  
• Published in English.
• Published from 2010 onwards.

To find out more about the research and how to submit evidence, please refer to this document. Please submit evidence before 31st October 2024 using the email:  edievidence@employment-studies.co.uk.

To find tips for putting our evidence into practice, visit our Employer Hub.