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Understanding how careers and employability provision in HEIs can work to support learners of colour throughout their degree studies to pursue graduate-level employment successfully.

These are just three examples of the varied approaches that universities can take to improve social justice while also taking important steps towards closing employment gaps. We hope that this blog piece has stimulated colleagues to explore possibilities for embedding employability in a socially just way within higher education or other educational sectors.The employability and professional development of PhD graduates have become somewhat hot topics in recent years, driven by an increasing association of doctoral Bangladesh consumer email list level skills with economic growth (for example, Kehm, 2007). Consequently, since 2020, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the non-departmental public body of the UK Government that manages investment in research and innovation, has been working on a ‘new deal’ for postgraduate research to ensure that doctoral training can sustainably deliver the highly skilled researchers needed to support both UK and global societies. In September 2023, UKRI launched a report outlining responses to their call for input into the new deal, shortly followed in January 2024 by a new Statement of Expectations for Doctoral Training.