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Getting Feedback
Academics do not necessarily get regular or even useful ‘performance reviews’, call them what you will. Businesses typically take this a lot more seriously, but a recent report highlights the many problems that can arise even with the best of … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Science Culture
Tagged appraisal, emotional, minorities, stereotype threat
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Does Leadership Need to be More Touchy-Feely?
If our sector is to see more minorities rise through the ranks to positions of power, indeed if any sector is to achieve this and go on, for instance, to remove the typical gender pay gap, then inclusive leadership needs … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture
Tagged group leader, humble, inclusivity, minorities, PhD students
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Embedding the Gender Agenda
I feel as if I have been involved with gender issues forever, but this is just the bad habit one has of reimagining personal history. Probably acting wisely, in fact for most of my professional career I just got on … Continue reading
Virginia Woolf’s Messages for Today
Although I read many of her novels as a teenager, I only came to reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own somewhat late in life. I have recently reread it. On a second reading I am even more struck … Continue reading
Posted in Equality
Tagged A room of one's own, belonging, independence, International Women's Day, minorities
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The Royal Society and Diversity
It is very easy to pillory long-established organisations for being insufficiently diverse. As a member of Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Society, I see it all the time. It is assumed these venerable institutions are ‘bad’. It … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged felllowship, FRS, minorities, Royal Society, statistics, University Research Fellowships
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