Inclusion in the time of COVID : 14 ways to seize the moment for change
Cebula, Carla and Nicoll Baines, Katie and Thijssen, Job H.J. and Lido, Catherine and Halliday, Karen and Hedge, Nicki and Mulvana, Helen and Gauchotte Lindsay, Caroline (2021) Inclusion in the time of COVID : 14 ways to seize the moment for change. Nature Index. (https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/inclusion-ti...)
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Abstract
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence suggests a widening of inequalities in academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) careers affecting people who are already marginalized within these fields. Here we propose ways in which the UK higher education sector could utilise the current state of flux in the system, including the move to remote collaboration and changes to publication and grant application processes, to create new and better opportunities for marginalized groups in STEMM. We are running two Inclusion Matters projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), called visNET and Evidence Base. Their goal is to design interventions, informed and evaluated by a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, to affect meaningful changes in reducing inequalities in academic research culture. Based on our observations of the challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 crisis, we present our 14 recommendations for how institutions could improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
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Cebula, Carla, Nicoll Baines, Katie, Thijssen, Job H.J., Lido, Catherine, Halliday, Karen, Hedge, Nicki, Mulvana, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5058-0299 and Gauchotte Lindsay, Caroline;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 75512 Dates: DateEvent9 February 2021Published8 February 2021AcceptedSubjects: Science > Science (General)
Education > Education (General)Department: Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 22 Feb 2021 11:50 Last modified: 06 Oct 2024 00:36 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75512