We’re delighted to announce a new national Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Sharing Hub+.
Jointly led by Prof. Vania Dimitrova and Prof. Louise Jennings, at the University of Leeds, the EDI Hub+ will bring together individuals from across the engineering, physical and mathematical sciences community to share knowledge and good practice, and address diversity challenges within the sector.
Working with universities, learned societies, industry partners, professional bodies and international collaborators, it will focus on three themes:
🟢 Career pathways: including removing barriers to doctoral study for underrepresented groups, providing inclusive support at key career transitions and growing diverse leadership
🟢 Research funding and processes: including trailing and evaluating alternative approaches to funding opportunities and peer review, and reducing the burden on specific groups
🟢 Organisational culture: including making workplaces more inclusive and accessible, fostering inclusive leadership and adopting equitable work-life balance approaches.
The hub will build on the work of existing initiatives, including the EPSRC Inclusion Matters projects, and will collaborate with other programmes supported by UKRI such as the EDI Caucus.
EPSRC Executive Chair Professor Charlotte Deane said:
“The diversity challenges we face deprive individuals of opportunity, with the result that the research and innovation system, and society more widely, cannot benefit from their contributions and perspectives.
“The EDI Hub+ aims to address the persistent challenges we see across the engineering, physical and mathematical sciences community by harnessing our collective accumulated knowledge.
“It will consolidate the work of existing initiatives and lead new programmes of work, ensuring that the best solutions can be brought to bear on challenges specific to the engineering, physical sciences and mathematics communities.”
Head to the UKRI website for further information.
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3moneed to stop using takepayers’ money to reinvent the wheels nor giving to funding cartels (unproductive researchers in the field but super well connected). If the research can be found simply on Google Scholar, we must progress from there.