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How Best to Tackle Bullying?
How can we make the university sector a more pleasant place to work? Bullying and harassment (whether of a sexual nature or not) are, it would appear, endemic across the higher education sector, for staff and students alike. Every survey … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Bystander, culture change, toxic culture change, Wellcome
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Thinking about Everyone’s Health
My last post dealt with an almost trivial – although symptomatic – issue of everyday sexism. This one deals with something of rather larger magnitude, but one that is much lower beneath the radar than it warrants: health, and health … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Research
Tagged gender, Londa Schiebinger, MRC, research design, Wellcome
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Building the Evidence
Evidence-based policy has become something of a catch phrase recently. My own MP, the scientist and my former departmental colleague Julian Huppert, used the phrase in his maiden speech, pledging to support it, albeit other MPs may be less persuaded … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Mark Henderson, Mark Walport, randomised controlled trials, Wellcome
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