About Race Equity in Research

As a research organisation, we have a duty to make sure that we fund projects that build evidence on how we can reduce racial disproportionality across public services. You can find out more about our race equity commitments and review the first published report on our progress. We also need to make sure that our evaluations improve our understanding of what works for children from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds.  

Individuals from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds are underrepresented in research. This means that there’s a lack of lived experience of racism, which affects the design and delivery of evaluations and other kinds of research. We would like to mitigate this and are committed to investing in improving the cultural competency of the researchers we work with.  

Race Equity Data Collection Panel

As part of our Race Equity Commitments, we have established the YEF Race Equity Data Collection Panel  to support our evaluation work. The aim of this panel is ensuring that the process of data collection from children and young people involved in YEF-funded evaluations is inclusive and culturally sensitive. 

We have carefully selected four organisations with extensive expertise and experience in collecting high-quality data from children and young people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. Our selection was based on the following criteria: 

• Proven experience collecting primary data with vulnerable children and young people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, either qualitative or using self-report measures.  

• Experience collecting data as part of an impact evaluation and/or implementation and process evaluation, including the ability to work closely and collaboratively with evaluators and delivery teams.   

• Demonstrated competence in race equity in research is essential.  

We are confident that these organisations will bring valuable insights and support to our evaluations. Thus, we encourage evaluators to consider working with them when their involvement would benefit project evaluation for which evaluators are bidding to conduct.  

Downloads

Please find the files with the detailed information about each organisation and how they can support YEF-funded evaluations below.  

Partnerships with the members of the YEF Race Equity Data Collection Panel will be guided by the Terms and Conditions included on this page shown below.