Journal articles
Derbyshire D, Spencer AE, Grosskopf B, Blackmore T (In Press). The Importance of Disability Representation to Address Implicit Bias in the Workplace.
Frontiers in Rehabilitation SciencesAbstract:
The Importance of Disability Representation to Address Implicit Bias in the Workplace
People are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment. Barriers can be physical or be caused by people's implicit and explicit attitudes towards people with disabilities. We utilise the Implicit Association Test to investigate implicit attitudes towards people with disabilities among Human Resource professionals and people involved in making hiring decisions. We find no significant differences between people who work for large companies or Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises. Similarly, working in Human Resources (or making recruitment decisions) has no effect on implicit bias. We supply the first evidence linking a person’s own health status (measured using EQ-5D-5L) to their implicit bias. We find that a worse health status is associated with lower implicit bias towards people with disabilities. In addition, we find women have lower implicit bias than men. The discussion reflects on the need for greater disability representation within the workplace – especially in making hiring decisions.
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Derbyshire DW, Barnett-Naghshineh O, Roberts BR, Ghemmour R, Reza MM, Rogers M, Fleming LE (2023). Keywords are missing: Insights from the publication keywords, abstracts and titles of an environment and human health research group.
Equity in Education & Society, 275264612311633-275264612311633.
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Keywords are missing: Insights from the publication keywords, abstracts and titles of an environment and human health research group
Inequalities within academia – and the research outputs of academic – are a widely acknowledged problem. This results in the reproduction of knowledge gaps within academic praxis. The current study presents a case study from an environment and human health research group, looking at the extent to which the research outputs mirror the wider knowledge gaps in the field. We use systematic review search methods to obtain publications for an environment and health research group since 2010. We use a combination of EndNote and VosViewer to analyse the frequency of key words and concepts in the titles, abstracts and keywords of these publications. We retrieved a total of 950 publications between 2010 and 2022. We find significant gaps with respect to key concepts appearing in the titles, abstracts and keywords of publications. We find that terms such as ‘colonisation’ and ‘racism’ are not mentioned at all. We reflect on the production process of academic research with respect to reproducing blind spots within environment and human health research. We discuss our results in the context of calls to make academic research more inclusive.
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Cerroni S, Derbyshire DW, Hutchinson WG, Nayga RM (2022). A Choice Matching Approach for Discrete Choice Analysis: an Experimental Investigation in the Laboratory. Land Economics, 99(1), 80-102.
McCallum CS, Cerroni S, Derbyshire D, Hutchinson WG, Nayga Jr. RM (2021). Consumers’ responses to food fraud risks: an economic experiment.
European Review of Agricultural Economics,
49(4), 942-969.
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Consumers’ responses to food fraud risks: an economic experiment
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. This artefactual field experiment explores consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) price premiums for fish products to avoid the risk and uncertainty of purchasing inauthentic produce. The influence of subjective probabilistic beliefs, risk and ambiguity preferences is investigated. Participants’ WTP is elicited using experimental auctions, while behavioural factors are elicited using incentivised and incentive-compatible methods: the quadratic scoring rule and multiple price lists. Results show that consumers are willing to pay a premium to avoid food fraud and purchase an authentic fish product. This premium is higher under uncertainty than risk, likely driven by ambiguity preferences which affect consumers’ purchasing under uncertainty.
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