Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Employment, Strategy and Experience ( Ref: WD_2022_11_WSCH)

Post Summary

Applications are invited for the position of PhD candidate for a 4-year funded project titled ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Employment, Strategy and Experience’.

This project will involve exploring diversity, inclusion, and equality awareness in business. It will investigate the hiring and decision-making processes, unconscious bias, and the experiences of ethnic minority employees. This research is intended to contribute to the field of EDI in Ireland, by conducting critical research on diversity in the Irish business sector, on the ‘felt’ dimension of inequality or of ‘otherness’ in the workplace, and the stresses and strains this may produce for employees. This project investigates the working lives of those who identify as ethnic minority and it considers how workers’ identities, lives and lived experiences may merge.

This interdisciplinary qualitative study requires a researcher with an enthusiasm for social research and a well-developed understanding of qualitative research methods. The scholarship will be of 4 years duration, providing a stipend to the successful scholar of €15,000 each year. A further €2,000 annually is allocated to cover materials, consumables and travel costs. In addition, an allowance of €4,500 per annum will be awarded to cover postgraduate tuition fees. Non-EU nationals will be charged at EU rates.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

·       Applicants should hold or expect to attain, as a minimum a 2:1 Honours degree, or equivalent, in Arts, Business, Social Sciences or related discipline.

Desirable

Applicants should hold or expect to attain a Masters degree in Arts, Social Sciences or related discipline, as a minimum a 2.1 Honours degree.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

·       Applicants whose first language is not English must submit evidence of competency in English, please see WIT’s English Language Requirements for details.

·       Applicants should have a well-developed interest in equality, diversity and inclusion, social movements, cultural politics or activism.

Desirable

·       Applicants should have experience and/or knowledge of diversity, social policy, social movements or activism.

·       Applicants should have knowledge of EDI theory and policy.