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Hi Keith, SCOPE produced something in 2014 entitled "A million futures: halving the disability employment gap" Best wishes, Debbie Dr Debbie Foster Reader in Employment Relations Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University Aberconway Building Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU Tel: +44(0)29 2087 5358 E.Mail: [log in to unmask] www.cf.ac.uk ________________________________ From: The Disability-Research Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Stephen McMurray <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 23 October 2015 08:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Employment disabled people - Assistance needed I remember Leonard Cheshire did similar research a few years. I have a physical disability and have certainly struggled far more than any of my friends at university to get work. Stephen McMurray > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:30:58 +0100 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Employment disabled people - Assistance needed > To: [log in to unmask] > > I am particularly interested in attitudes of employers to would be disabled candidates. I am less interested in government propaganda to employers about the advantages of employing disabled workers. > > I seem to remember that SCOPE or The Spastic Society, did a survey (with a sample of about a hundred) of employers where two letters were sent one being no mention of the candidate of being disabled and the alternative stating that they could do the job, however they had a physical impairment. They surveyed offers of interviews. It was published in 1980s or early 1990s. The result being of the candidates who did not state they had an candidates having a far higher chance of interview than the other candidate. > > I would be most interested in details of this survey or any similar survey conducted in the UK. > > Thank you for any help you can give, > > Keith Armstrong > Writer and Researcher > > ________________End of message________________ > > This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). > > Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] > > Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.