Please see below for key publications, reports and links, including papers by the project team. For copies of publications where no link is provided, please use the contact page to request from us.
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Mamode J., Wright, T., Conley, H. and Sarter, E.K. (2024) A trade unionistsâ guide to using public procurement to advance equality and social justice
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Wright, T., Conley, H., Mamode, J., Sarter, E. K. (2024). Buying social justice: How socially responsible public procurement can advance equality in employment, Research Insights #6, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.
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Wright T., Conley, H. and Sarter, E.K. (2024) âUsing public procurement to promote equality in employment: assessment of the evidence from Australia, South Africa and the UKâ, in Forson, Healy, Ăzturk and Tatli (eds) Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Wright T. (2024) Improving workforce diversity through procurement, CIOB People, 15 January 2024
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Building People Sharing Sixty: Introduction to the Buying Social Justice - equality and diversity toolkit, 7 December 2023
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Wright, T. (2023) 'Using Procurement to Promote Workforce Diversity', Buildings & Cities, 22 August
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Buying Social Justice Collaborative Workshop (Scotland): 22 June 2023 project presentation slides
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Buying Social Justice Collaborative Workshop (Scotland): 22 June 2023 responses to findings slides
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Buying Social Justice Collaborative Workshop (England): 5 June 2023 project presentation slides
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Perry Barr Residential Scheme Social Value KPI report May 2019 - February 2023, Lendlease
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Buying Social Justice Collaborative Workshop (Wales): 25 May 2023 project presentation slides
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Conference presentation: Mamode, Conley, Sarter and Wright ( January 2023). 'Where are gender and race equality within the 'fair work' agenda?
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Conference presentation: Wright, Conley, Sarter and Mamode ( September 2022) âBroadening conceptions of social value in public procurement: the inclusion of gender and race inequalityâ
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Can public procurement be used to advance employment equality in construction? CRED video, 26 July 2022
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Sack, D. and Sarter, E.K. (2022) 'To comply or to be committed? Public procurement and labour rights in global supply chains', Global Social Policy.
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Howells, L., Parfitt, S., Robinson, S. und Sarter, E. K. (2020) 'New development: Myth or Reality: Public Sectorâs growing Appetite to Procure from the Third Sector', Public Money & Management, 40(2): 170-173.
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Sarter, E.K. (2020) 'The Development and Implementation of Gender Equality Considerations in Public Procurement in Germany', Feminist Economics, 26(3): 66-89.
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Sarter, E.K. and Thomson, E. (2020) 'Fulfilling its Promise? Strategic Public Procurement and the Impact of Equality Considerations on Employersâ Behaviour in Scotland', Public Money & Management, 40(6): 437-445.
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Wright, T. and Conley, H. (2020) âAdvancing gender equality in the construction sector through public procurement: making effective use of responsive regulationâ Economic and Industrial Democracy, 41(4): 975-996 (Published online March 21, 2018)
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Sarter, E.K. and Karamanidou, L. (2019) 'Quality, Qualifications, and the Market: Procuring Interpretation Services in the Context of the "Refugee Crisis"', Social Policy & Administration, 53(3): 493- 507.
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Sack, D. and E.K. Sarter (2018) 'Collective bargaining, minimum wages, and public procurement in Germany: Regulatory adjustments to the neo-liberal drift of a coordinated market economy', Journal of Industrial Relations, 60(5): 669â690.
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Sarter, E.K. (2016) 'Public Procurement & the Public Sector Equality Duty: Equality Sensitive Tendering in Scotland', WiSE Working Paper No. 5. Glasgow: Glasgow Caledonian University.
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Wright, T. (2016) âGender and sexuality in male-dominated occupations: women workers in construction and transportâ, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
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Wright, T. (2016) âWhy greater gender equality in male-dominated sectors is good for women and industry â and how to do itâ, The Political Anthropologist, 11 October 2016
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Conley, H. (2015) 'Gender Equality in the UK Public Sector: is reflexive legislation the way forward?' In: Bauschke-Urban, C. and Jungwirth, I., eds. (2019) Gender and Diversity Studies in European Perspectives. Opladen, Germany: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
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Conley, H. and Page, M. (2015) 'Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream', Routledge.
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Conley, H. and Wright, T. (2015) âMaking reflexive legislation work: stakeholder engagement and public procurement in the Public Sector Equality Dutyâ, Beyond 2015: Shaping the future of equality, human rights and social justice, London: Equality and Diversity Forum.
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Wright, T. (2015) âCan âsocial valueâ requirements on public authorities be used in procurement to increase womenâs participation in the UK construction industry?â Public Money and Management, 35: 2: 135-40.
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Wright, T. (2014) The Women into Construction Project: an assessment of a model for increasing womenâs participation in construction, Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary University of London, July 2014.
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Wright, T. (2014) âMore women into construction? Hereâs how to do itâ, Construction Manager, 9 September 2014
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Wright, T. (2013) 'Promoting employment equality through public procurement: Report of a workshop held by the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity', Queen Mary University of London, January 2013
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GLA (2007) âThe construction industry in London and diversity performanceâ, London, Greater London Authority.
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