Ethnic minority academics less likely to win UK research grants

While data is useful evidence the mere fact that minorities are a very small percentage of faculty and very few become professors then obviously the proportion of research grants going to them will always be very small. Who wants to change that? Nobody

The comment above hits the nail on the head. It is funny how people get brushed asides when it comes to promotions. The obvious one is where A and B conclusively meet well defined criteria but A gets promoted while B dosent. There is probbaly less of that nowadays. The less obvious one is where it is unclear whether A and B meet vaugely defined criteria, but A gets promoted while B dosent. While it may be obvious to B and everyone that A too hasnt met the criteria, using that as an argument seems weak and uncollegial and so B can be easily coerced into accepting that they havent met the criteria, so rightly they did not deserve the promotion. Here the criteria are kept deliberalely vague or the criteria may have number of components with the relative importance of those components kept deliberately vague, so they can be weighted differently for A and B. But who cares about the little details...