Analysis reveals ethnic minority applicants’ grant success rates still lower

A new analysis of who gets funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has found that ethnic minority researchers don’t get the same level of funding as white researchers. Their odds of success are 32% lower and when they are successful, they apply for – and receive – less funding than their white counterparts. Moreover, applications from ethnic minority researchers are ‘disproportionately’ assessed as not fundable.