The information on these pages is focused on quantitative data. For information on qualitative data available, please visit our EDI Engagement page.
Useful resources:
- Working with data (Advance HE)
Understanding EDI Data
Understanding EDI data is our first step to understanding potential bias or barriers to inclusion, to identifying actions to remove any bias or barriers and to creating a fairer and more inclusive University. Here you will find information on staff and student EDI data, how we use data as part of our charter mark work and beyond and links to useful data sources.
Why EDI data matters?
To understand the impact our plans, decisions and activities will have or have had on different groups of people, we need to analyse data by equality groups to see how different groups are represented. This helps us understand potential or actual bias and barriers facing our staff, students, visitors and our wider University community, so that we can create a fairer and more inclusive University.
Useful Data Sources (*Section in Development)
Staff Profiles
The latest trends in our University staff population, relating to gender, disability, age, nationality and black, asian and ethnic minority status (UK only), is published in our latest EDI Annual Report 2023-24 and is available here: LU EDI Annual Report 2023 - 2024 (FINAL)
Live data on the diversity of our workforce is available in the Lancaster University Workforce Profile Tool, under the ‘Diversity of workforce’ tab (internal and restricted access only).
Useful data sources:
Data source
LU Workforce Profile – ’Diversity of workforce’ tab
Data available
Appointment type; grade
Diversity groups
Gender, ethnicity, disability, nationality group, age
Restricted/open
Restricted
For further information on data and queries about access permissions, please contact hr.mi@lancaster.ac.uk
Student Profiles
The latest trends in our University student population, relating to gender, disability and black, asian and ethnic minority status (UK only), is published in our latest EDI Annual Report 2023-24 and is available here: LU EDI Annual Report 2023 - 2024 (FINAL)
Live data on the diversity of our student population is available here (internal and restricted access only).
Data source
Student Numbers and Demographics
Data available
Student Registrations grouped by Equality and Diversity characteristic
Diversity groups
Gender, Ethnicity, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority status, Disability, Socio-economic group,
Restricted/open
Restricted
For further information on data and queries about access permissions, please contact data-analytics@lancaster.ac.uk
Benchmarking
The Equality in Higher Education reports from Advance HE are a useful tool for benchmarking, providing annual staff and student equality data. As part of the Equality in Higher Education reports, there is a statistical report, infographics and downloadable data tables, available here:
- Equality in Higher Education: Staff Statistical Report 2022 (Advance HE)
- Equality in Higher Education: Student Statistical Report 2022 (Advance HE)
- Equality in Higher Education: Staff Infographics 2022 (Advance HE)
- Equality in Higher Education: Student Infographics 2022 (Advance HE)
- Equality in Higher Education: Downloadable data tables 2022(Advance HE): To help you access and analyse the data in the latest year's Equality in Higher Education Statistical Reports, all of the tables presented in the reports are available to download in Excel format. These also include further detail not included in the report: for example, data disaggregated by five-year age group, impairment type, ethnic group, and subject area.
The latest reports are available in September each year.
Further information on benchmarking is available on Advance HE’s Benchmarking webpages.