The position of women and BME staff in professorial roles in UK HEIs

This is a report by the Universities and College Union (UCU).  In 2011, UCU began a project looking at various aspects of the professoriate in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). One of the identified objectives of the project was to identify any significant gender or race pay gaps within the professoriate. In undertaking the project the union also began to collate equality data about who makes up the professoriate—it found that women and Black and minority ethnic (BME) staff were under-represented at the highest academic grades.