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Red Tape
The announcement of a review of bureaucratic red tape in universities may bring either a smile of relief or a hollow laugh. Why are universities (and funding bodies) so entangled in this nasty stuff? Is it because they love to … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Science Funding
Tagged Athena Swan, forms, panels, UKRI
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How are Universities Supporting Those Worst Affected by the Pandemic?
This pandemic has thrown all kinds of inequalities into sharp focus, ranging from fundamental matters of health and wellbeing to job security. The consequences of all these issues will echo down the years ahead, long after the pandemic is a … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Athena Swan, Liverpool University, National Academy of Sciences, pandemic, tenure clock
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Research Culture, Fairness and Transparency
A week after the Science and University Ministers announced with respect to chartermarks such as Athena Swan “We have therefore asked the OfS, UKRI and NIHR to ensure that they place no weight upon the presence or absence of such … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture
Tagged Athena Swan, BAME, grant-giving panels, Ottoline Leyser, UKRI
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We’ve Come a Long Way But…..
When Rita Colwell was born in 1934, neither Oxford nor Cambridge Universities had yet appointed a female professor in any discipline; Dorothy Garrod, the first woman to hold such a chair (the Disney Chair of Archaeology at Cambridge), was not … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Athena Swan, harassment, Ottoline Leyser, Rita Colwell
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Thinking about Your Workload
The first time I was asked to serve on a research council (standing) committee, when a young(ish) researcher, I did not seek my head of department’s position. I informed him, since it happened we worked closely together, but it did … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged Alice Roberts, Athena Swan, mental health
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