Resources

Related publications, websites and other resources

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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Wright T., Conley, H. and Sarter, E.K. (2024) ‘Using public procurement to promote equality in employment: assessment of the evidence from Australia, South Africa and the UK’, in Forson, Healy, Özturk 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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Buying Social Justice equality and diversity toolkit launch October 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) ‘Broadening conceptions of social value in public procurement: the inclusion of gender and race inequality’

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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 Sector’s 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 Employers’ Behaviour in Scotland', Public Money & Management, 40(6): 437-445.

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Wright, T. and Conley, H. (2020) ‘Advancing gender equality in the construction sector through public procurement: making effective use of responsive regulation’ 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): 669–690.

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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) ‘Gender and sexuality in male-dominated occupations: women workers in construction and transport’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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Wright, T. (2016) ‘Why greater gender equality in male-dominated sectors is good for women and industry – and how to do it’, 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) ‘Making reflexive legislation work: stakeholder engagement and public procurement in the Public Sector Equality Duty’, Beyond 2015: Shaping the future of equality, human rights and social justice, London: Equality and Diversity Forum.

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Wright, T. (2015) ‘Can ‘social value’ requirements on public authorities be used in procurement to increase women’s participation in the UK construction industry?’ 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 women’s participation in construction, Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary University of London, July 2014.

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Wright, T. (2014) ‘More women into construction? Here’s how to do it’, 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) ‘The construction industry in London and diversity performance’, London, Greater London Authority.

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