Staff disability data in UK higher education: Evidence from EDI reports.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore how higher education institutions (HEIs) make transparent the data they collect on staff disability, and how this relates to existing equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) charters.

Design

Descriptive cross-sector quantitative study based on UK HEIs.

Setting

Higher education sector in the UK.

Participants

162 HEIs across the UK with information extracted from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), each institution's website and Advance HE.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Availability of a publicly available EDI report. Type of information on staff disability identified within the EDI report and level of detail, the latter derived from the number of different types of information provided in the report. Athena SWAN a

SUBMITTER: Saloniki EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503180 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature