Project updates
August 1st 2024: Preliminary results released
To mark World Breastfeeding Week 2024 we released some preliminary results
July 11th 2024: ICPPS Presentation
Professor Sarah Jewell presented findings from the project at the 3rd International Conference on Policies and Parental Support (ICPPS) hosted by St John York University
June 19th 2024: Project conference
We were delighted to host our hybrid project conference at the University of Reading. You can find out more about the conference and view the presentation recordings on the conference webpage.
June 11th 2024: 2nd Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference Presentation
Professor Sarah Jewell presented findings from the study at the 2nd Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference, hosted at the University of Reading. You can find out more about the conference including a link to the recording of her presentation on the conference webpage.
May 2024: Line Manager Survey
We launched our line manager survey
March 21st 2024: HR Decision Maker Survey
Our HR Decision maker Survey was conducted by YouGov Plc as part of their weekly HR Decision Maker survey. 508 adults completed our survey. Fieldwork was undertaken between 21st – 26th March 2024. The survey was carried out online
July 21st 2023: ICPPS Presentation
Professor Sarah Jewell presented the project at the 2nd International Conference on Policies and Parental Support (ICPPS) hosted by St John York University
July 11th 2023: Understanding Society Conference Presentation
Dr Fari Aftab presented early results from the Understanding Society Data analysis at the Understanding Society Conference hosted by the University of Essex.
June 22nd 2023: Boobingit podcast
Professor Sarah Jewell was invited to speak about the project on the boobingit podcast. You can check out the podcast here.
June 20th 2023: 1st Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference Presentation
Professor Sarah Jewell presented early insights from our survey at the 1st Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference, hosted at the University of Reading. You can find out more about the conference including a link to the recording of her presentation here.
March 24th 2023: 1st Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Annual Conference
We are delighted to announce that we will be presenting the first results from the project at our 1st annual conference. More details about the conference can be found here,
March 6th 2023: Letdown Podcast
Professor Sarah Jewell was invited to speak about the project on the fantastic Letdown Podcast. You can check out the podcast here
March 3rd 2023: Survey Prize Draw
Congratulations to the winners of our survey prize draw. We are keeping the survey open until the end of 2023 for anyone who wants to complete the survey, but has not yet had the chance. You can access the survey here.
November 22nd 2022: Mothers’ Survey Launched
Our ‘Maternal well-being, infant feeding, and paid work experiences’ survey was launched, for more details and the survey link, see here.
May 19th 2022: Project Launch Workshop
We hosted our online project launch workshop. For a link to the recording of the project introduction see here
April 4th 2022: The Project Starts
We officially started the project and Fari Aftab joined the team as our research assistant.