What Works in Wales? Developing an evidence base to inform a kitemark for employers to address the disability employment gap

背景2018年6月，DW首席执行官Rhian Davies在学习和工作研究所Cymru和工作组组织的启动活动中发表主旨演讲，以解决威尔士的残疾就业差距。提出了6项建议：一个是“制定威尔士残疾标准”：雇主成为工作组“就业能力行动计划”一部分的标志。这个奖学金将与DW合作，制定一个“威尔士制造”的标准，并将重点放在3个关键的研究问题：哪些因素导致威尔士残疾人就业差距持续存在？2. DRILL方案使用共同制作作为研究方法，对残疾人的社会、经济和政治经历提供了前所未有的见解，其研究结果如何为就业政策和做法提供信息？3.哪些措施已经对残疾人的就业起作用，未来的举措如何在现有举措/做法的基础上为雇主制定威尔士标准提供信息？许多关于残疾人就业差距的现有研究集中在失业残疾人的数量上，往往推动短期政治目标，即让残疾人摆脱福利并进入任何类型的工作，而忽视了工作质量和职业的重要性。该项目旨在突出残疾人自己认为的最佳就业做法：目前文献中记录不足。它感兴趣的是确定因素，无论是组织，技术，结构，经济或态度，促进就业和代表“最佳做法”的具体举措。

ContextIn June 2018, DW Chief Executive Rhian Davies was a keynote speaker at a launch event organised by the Learning and Work Institute Cymru and the WG, to address the disability employment gap in Wales. This made 6 recommendations: one was to 'develop a Wales Disability Standard': a kitemark for employers to be part of the WG 'Employability Action Plan'. This studentship will collaborate with DW to develop a 'made-in-Wales' standard and will focus on 3 key research questions: Questions1. What factors contribute to the persistent disability employment gap in Wales?2. How can findings from the DRILL programme, which used co-production as a research methodology and provides unprecedented insights into disabled people's experiences of society, the economiy and polity, inform employment polcies and practice?3. What already works for disabled people in employment and how could future initiatives build on existing initiatives/practice to inform the development of a Welsh standard for employers?RationaleMuch existing research on the disability employment gap concentrates on the number of disabled people out of work, often driving the short term political objective of getting disabled people off benefits and into any kind of work and overlooking the importance of job quality and careers. This project aims to highlight what disabled people themselves regard as best practice in employment: currently under-documented in the literature. It is interested in identifying factors, whether organisational, technological, structural, economic or attitudinal, that facilitate employment and specific initiatives that represent 'best practice'.