March 2024 - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the social sciences:

• While much of the data indicate the social sciences as a whole are broadly comparable with the data averages across the total, sector-wide, UK HE staff and student populations (including medicine, STEM, social science and the humanities and arts), there are some notable variances both between sectors and between disciplines in the social sciences. [...] o Ethnicity data for staff in the social sciences shows that there are higher proportions of White, Asian, Black and Mixed staff in permanent/open ended contracts than there are within the sector-wide HESA dataset, with those of Asian and White ethnicity having the highest proportions across the social sciences (with March 2024 4 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the social sciences: summ. [...] March 2024 14 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the social sciences: summary data report Figure 4 – Percentage of female staff employed in teaching and research only functions 2.3 Disability 6% of the total academic staff population in the social sciences has a known disability, which is in line with the total number of academic staff with a known disability within the sector-wide HESA da. [...] March 2024 16 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the social sciences: summary data report Figure 6 – Percentage of academic staff with a known disability in full-time employment 2.4 Nationality The nationality breakdown of the total academic staff population in the social sciences appears broadly in line with the sector-wide HESA dataset, with 33% of all academic staff in the social scienc. [...] Discipline comparison March 2024 27 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the social sciences: summary data report For the purposes of this report, a selection of the top-level data for the Academy’s fifteen defined main disciplines in the social sciences has been compared with the social sciences aggregate data.