Sue Scott

Sue’s particular interests are in fair selection and assessment, and the effective use of equal opportunities monitoring data.  Until 1998 Sue worked at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), where she led many major investigations, research studies and policy development projects, mainly in the field of employment.  She was responsible for the CRE’s investigation into the race equality policy and practices of large companies, its report on the selection of trainee train drivers by British Rail, and, with Mary Coussey, its seminal investigation into the awarding of chartered accountancy training contracts.  She also wrote or advised on a range of other guidance material produced by the CRE, including publications relating to the use of psychometric tests.

Since leaving the CRE, Sue has provide specialist equalities input to national selection and assessment projects, including two DERA/QinetiQ projects to devise best practice benchmarks, on the use of psychometric tests, and on assessment centre policy and practice, and a project run by Interactive Skills Limited and Optimal Performance to develop a national firefighter selection procedure. She has also carried out equality audits of several major public sector selection or promotion procedures and of service delivery arrangements in an executive agency.

In 2001/2002 she was contracted by the CRE to write its consultation draft and final guidance publication on ethnic monitoring, forming part of its pack for public authorities on the duty to promote racial equality following the implementation of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.   She is currently acting as the UK national expert in an EC-funded project on the measurement of discrimination (Medis) on grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation and disability.