The engineering industry is one that has a long-standing reputation for being male-dominated and lacking in diversity. Efforts to grow diversity in the field have often met with resistance, primarily due to a persistent belief in meritocracy and the idea that “the best” engineers…
It seems the word decolonisaiton itself puts up barriers and is problmentic in addressing. What does it mean and what can you do? Here are 5 tips.
And where did Inclusion Power-up come from? Over lockdowns, I’ve been harnessing my ideation to build a collection of inclusion power-ups. Ways to help engineering teaching colleagues gain confidence in being more inclusive. . I find that every time I speak with someone or…
Our names can reveal important clues about who we are, our age, ethnicity, or social class, for example, that can affect how we’re treated by others. Exploring research on names is fascinating in itself.
Few of us work alone these days. We all depend on others to help us deliver our work, daily, weekly or monthly. We tend to drift into routines. Our networks can become limited. So how can you invest a bit of time to enrich…
If enriching the student experience, closing the achievement gap and maintaining the diversity of your cohort into relevant work is important these five points will help. The are designed to build creative, engaged and innovative teaching and learning spaces and support people to produce…
Four things to notice: first steps to seeing what others experience Growing the diversity of engineers soaks up millions of pounds on role model schemes, campaigns and outreach, and even more volunteer hours. Yet the percentage of women entering engineering has flatlined at 15%….
November 7 2017 We’ve seen huge advances and shifting in thinking around diversity and inclusion in higher education in recent years, catalysed by the Athena Project, launched in 1999. What a difference we can now see. The diverse and rich programme at this year’s…
UK women in engineering programmes are dwarfed by those funded by the National Science Foundation in the USA. Jan Peters was invited to present at the 2017 Change Leaders Forum in Colorado. WEPAN is the main US network dedicated to advancing cultures of…
Sometimes our internal people management systems don’t align. Maybe your organization has introduced strengths locally but still operates a competency-based system. And here you are, trying to work with strengths and what’s right with people while filling out forms identifying areas for development. Originally…