Racial justice

This slide deck — created by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey as one of the 13 Research-England Funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — aims to support PGR’s in identifying stress and anxiety, how to manage these feels, and where to go when you need more support.

This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Diversity Minds, provides and introduction to defining mental health and wellbeing. 

Research suggests there are notable differences in approaches to doctoral admissions and the criteria employed to select doctoral candidates. Through interviews with 65 academic staff involved in doctoral admissions at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, this paper examines how these different approaches to admissions play out in different disciplines, driving the disciplinary divergence in conceptualisations of the PhD and, in turn, admissions practices. 

This guidance and support from The University of Leeds as a portion of the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE) addresses the legal and practical things to consider when proposing or implementing positive action within doctoral recruitment.

The template addressing project planning was created by the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-Funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.

Presented by Generation Delta, these training resources emerged directly from the Workshops organised by this project and held around the country between 2022 and 2025 to understand and enhance the experience of racially minoritised women students at the postgraduate research level. They are designed with the needs of these women in mind, but we hope they will help all those wishing to pursue a research career in higher education.

This blog post on affirmative action in US universities and colleges was written as a portion of the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.

This study on conceptions of ideal doctoral attributes was undertaken as a portion of the Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.

This resource was created by Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education (YCEDE), one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and widening access to postgraduate education.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) remains an important topic for the postgraduate sector. This resource includes key facts and figures on widening access and participation for historically underrepresented communities in postgraduate education as the UKCGE prepares for the 2nd UKCGE Conference on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Postgraduate Research focused on Race and Ethnicity.