Deadline: 16-Jun-22
The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC) has launched a funding call for research on improving equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within modern slavery research in the UK.
The aim of this call is to understand and assess the diversity of those funding, designing, undertaking and participating in UK publicly funded modern slavery research.
This project should focus on protected characteristics age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Consideration should also be given to how this interacts with people with lived experience of modern slavery and those from different socio-economic backgrounds, academic disciplines, career experience and academic statuses.
Objectives
- Generate new data and insights on EDI within publicly funded modern slavery research in the UK and use this to identify the most significant EDI challenges and opportunities. This should focus on all legally protected characteristics, with consideration given to how this correlates with the inclusion of people with lived experience, those from different socio-economic backgrounds, academic disciplines, career stage and those outside of academia.
- Identify examples of best practice within modern slavery research, assessing their effectiveness and impact. This should include examples where diverse groups or individuals (including those with lived experience) are effectively and equitably included in research, and those that use innovative methods to include diverse groups or individuals.
- Develop detailed, comprehensive and implementable recommendations and relevant resources based on these insights and examples of best practice for research funders such as the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, and others working on modern slavery research.
Funding Information
The Modern Slavery PEC has allocated a maximum budget of £80,000 at 100% full economic cost (FEC) for this project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects may be led by either a UK higher education institution, an approved research organisation eligible to receive UKRI funding or a charity registered in the UK with a focus on modern slavery or EDI. Project teams must include at least one academic or research organisation and one UK based third sector organisation.
- Charities registered in the UK may apply for up to 50% of the project’s budget, they will be funded at 100% FEC (for every £1 spent, they receive £1 of funding, so the Modern Slavery PEC covers 100% of the full economic cost of the project).
- International organisations are eligible to apply as partners to this call, they can receive a maximum budget of 30% and will also receive their funding at 100% FEC.
- The combined UK registered charity and international costs can account for a maximum of 50% of the total budget of the project
For more information, visit Modern Slavery PEC.
For more information, visit https://modernslaverypec.org/latest/funding-call-improving-edi