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Category Archives: Equality
What Does Excellence Look Like?
Harnessing the Metric Tide, the recently-published follow-on to the 2015 Report The Metric Tide, provides a welcome focus on our cultures and practice within HEIs. It imagines an ecosystem where metrics are collected which inform the community about the health … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Research
Tagged Harnessing the Metric Tide, HESA, IDAP, statistics, The Metric Tide
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The Future of Skills and Education?
It is only six weeks since I last wrote about skills on this blog. Not, you might think, a very long time for change to happen. And yet much has. A new monarch (probably the least important for the theme … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Science Funding
Tagged Further Education, investment, Lifelong learning entitlement, science superpower
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Brilliance and Diversity
A couple of weeks ago I attended the annual conference of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, and a fascinating day it was. Everyone in the hall seemed delighted to be back to meeting in person, but there were several … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality
Tagged conferences, Diane Coyle, manels, stereotypes
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Accrual of Disadvantage
Another year, another International Women’s Day. Sometimes I get frustrated that so much action happens on this one day of the year, and isn’t distributed uniformly throughout, so that the discussions, the highlighting, the signposting – all those necessary actions … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged citations, CVs, Matilda effect, student assessments, Unconscious bias
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Unconscious Bias 2.0
‘Unconscious bias’ has become very much part of the conscious process that many organisations try to bring to bear on their decision-making, be it with regard to promotions or appointments. However, what do they mean by it and how do … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged appointment committees, CV, promotion, publishing
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