JRF Additional Pilot Guidance for Proposers.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is committed to policies and services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. The Foundation expects proposals to consider all dimensions of diversity and, wherever appropriate, to include explicit attention to these issues.
A guidance document has therefore been produced to help proposers consider some of the issues specifically relating to 'race' and ethnic diversity. This guidance is intended to alert proposers to some of the key challenges that arise in researching 'race' and ethnic diversity and to encourage careful reflection on whether and how best to incorporate attention to 'race' and ethnic diversity within their proposed research. This guidance is currently in pilot form and should be regarded as a supplement to the standard guidance for proposers available on the Foundation's website.
The guidance, though focused on 'race'/ethnicity, should not be taken to imply that other dimensions of diversity should be given less attention. We have chosen to focus initially on 'race'/ethnicity since there are widespread concerns that social research in this area may often lack scientific and ethical rigour.
The guidance document is available here: Guidance document.
We want to know about the usefulness and appropriateness of the Guidance Checklist so that it can be improved in the future. Feedback is therefore sought from proposers via a short electronic questionnaire. This should take between 10-15 minutes to complete. Please give us your feedback here: Click here to access the survey.
