What are the enablers to encouraging and sustaining greater diversity – in terms of protected characteristics and socio-economic background – in the legal profession, particularly within senior roles?
Background
We want to create the conditions for the UK’s legal services sector to flourish by developing a sustainable, efficient and effective system. This includes securing legal services market access overseas, growing the UK’s market share, and enhancing the international competitiveness and attractiveness of the legal sector.
Next steps
We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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University of Nottingham (The) and Browne Jacobson LLP KTP 22_23 R2
To expand and develop the ability to communicate, act and deliver inclusivity and embed long-lasting equality, diversity and inclusion principles into business practices and people processes across key client-bases and t...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to embed equality, diversity, and inclusion principles into the legal sector, addressing the need for greater diversity in senior roles.
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Diversity and Productivity: from Education to Work (DaPEW)
Summary: The UK has lower productivity than many comparable economies. There are also large differences in education choices and career outcomes between similarly qualified individuals from different backgrounds. These d...
Funded by: SPF
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically addresses the question by exploring the barriers to diversity in senior roles in the legal profession and providing strategies to increase diversity at all levels within organizations.
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Accent Bias and Fair Access in Britain
RATIONALE Fair access to employment is the cornerstone of a just, equal and socially mobile society. Despite efforts in recent years by government and industry to implement fair access policies, a 2015 report by the gove...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project examines the role of accent bias in hiring situations in the legal profession, which is relevant to understanding the barriers to diversity in senior roles. However, it does not directly address the question of enablers to encouraging and sustaining greater diversity.