Thanks Luke, it was fantastic to get your input into the toolkit at draft stage. And really great to hear about some good practice in the launch - recording will be available very soon!

Download the toolkit and other resources here: 1752group.com/pgrs/

It's not too late to sign up for the launch event tomorrow: lnkd.in/er-ncgSi

Solidarity... onwards and upwards.

- At the PGT level, gender inequalities vary across institution types.
- Among postgraduate researchers, women remain under-represented.

But there are things we can do! Eg programmes to support women and non-binary people into PhDs; making music technology mandatory for all UG programmes...

Key findings:

- Older, more prestigious institutions have a more equal gender balance.
- Women of colour and working-class women are doubly marginalised: excluded from prestigious HEIs where white, middle-class women predominate, and from newer HEIs where men are over-represented.

In creative higher education (HE) undergraduate courses in the UK, women students are over-represented by a proportion of two-to-one. However, music HE shows almost the reverse gender balance.

This article uses data on all students in UK music HE between 2016 and 2020.

It comes out of the 'Slow Train Coming' report:

Bull, Anna. 2025. ‘Gender Inequalities in UK Music Higher Education: The Role of Institutional Stratification’. British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Open access copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZYH2B...

The launch event will hear from myself giving an overview of the toolkit, as well as Rachel Arnold, PGR Director at University of Bath, as well as Sahana Arun Kumar, a postgraduate researcher at University of York. All welcome.