Across the globe, quantitative measures in higher education (HE) are drawn upon to identify, monitor and address structural inequalities.
Countries differ in their conceptions of in/equality. The UK HE sectors are guided by state regulatory frameworks, with specific ‘characteristics’ legally protected in the devolved nations.
Six of these (sex, ethnicity, age, disability, religious belief and nationality) informed our exploration of statistical data about academic staff, to consider how social determinates affect employment in the discipline of education (Belluigi et al., 2023).
We highlight four findings of the differential and intersectional impacts.
