Ensuring equality and diversity in the Energy Sector begins with assembling diverse learning communities. Engineering as a discipline forms a crucial part of this learning community. The Graduate Apprenticeship in Civil Engineering (GA-CE), and other Graduate Apprenticeships, were set up to create new pathways into engineering for people from different backgrounds by diversifying the number of stakeholders involved in recruitment, the granular nature of this recruitment has translated to less diversity in our GA-CE than traditional undergraduate programmes. GA programmes have documented sector-wide issues with diversity. This project seeks to identify the key factors affecting recruitment to the GA-CE and develop recommendations to increase diversity in recruitment of future GA cohorts. Funding will be used to conduct interviews and focus groups with employers and apprentices to characterise the recruitment experience from all angles and inform initiatives that we can begin as soon as possible to improve diversity in future GA applicant pools.
 

Flexible funding: FA2 round 1 2023


Watch Dr Stewart Beattie's (University of Strathclyde) presentation at the IGNITE Annual Event 2024