Some staff at RIBA feel unable to speak up about issues at the institute, including race-related microaggressions, a review by independent diversity consultancy EW Group has found.

The report, commissioned after the professional body for architects was accused of burying a 2021 investigation into bullying by HR adviser Sue Baker, also found that some of the organisation’s roughly 250 staff felt RIBA treated its equality, diversity and inclusion responsibilities as a “tick box exercise”.

RIBA chief executive Valerie Vaughan-Dick said there was no place in the organisation for “anything but a positive working culture” for staff, members and everyone they interact with.

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