ROTA Community Research Partnership Report 2024 (January 2025): Education and Employment
The ROTA Community Research Partnership (RCRP) is the flagship new partnership initiative from Race on the Agenda (ROTA). Enabled through funding from City Bridge Foundation via Propel, the RCRP will run for three years from 2024-2027.
During the partnership, ROTA will recruit, train, and support the independent work of 30 Peer Researchers (PRs), seeking to conduct race equity research within their communities, focusing on different themes for each of the three annual cohorts.
For the 2024 cohort, PRs have been conducting innovative research around the themes of education and employment, and how racial inequities affect their communities in these areas. The findings that are presented in this report speak to the need for urgent practice and policy reforms across the schools, universities, and employment sectors, particularly for minoritised women and others facing additional, intersectional inequities. We have drawn on data from our PRs to make a series of specific recommendations, concerning both the specific areas that they have been working in, and the sectors as a whole.