A place to find papers, reports and blogs on equality and diversity as well as helpful websites. Blogs Breaking the Glass Ceiling Early On: How to Empower Girls in STEM [added Nov 2022] LSE blog - Gender bias in academe: An annotated bibliography of important recent studies LSE blog - interrogating 'excellence': implicit bias in academic promotion decisions perpetuates gender inequality LSE blog - prioritising race equality: senior leaders must do more to encourage BME talent to stay in UK Higher Education Film A Chemical Imbalance - a film, a book, a call for action Further Reading Equality book offers recipes for change EqualBITE - Gender equality in higher education Gender in the Global Research Landscape Lonely at the top for women scientists - Prof. Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry) on isolation in senior positions in science (BBC News) Academic flight: how to encourage black and minority ethnic academics to stay in UK higher education (Equality Challenge Unit publication) How to get tenure (if you're a woman) Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland - Academic Women Now: experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland Why Young Girls Don’t Think They Are Smart Enough Research Papers Document Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (PNAS, 2012) (664.78 KB / PDF) Document Successful female leaders empower women's behavior in leadership tasks (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013) (566.5 KB / PDF) Document Now Hiring! Empirically Testing a Three-Step Intervention to Increase Faculty Gender Diversity in STEM (Bioscience, 2015) (210.02 KB / PDF) Document Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence childrens interests (Science, January 2017) (347.76 KB / PDF) Seminars (UoE) 20 September 2017 (4pm) - "Breaking Boundaries" Series - Dr Karen Salt, co-Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R), University of Nottingham Training e-Diversity in the Workplace Implementing Reasonable Adjustments Unconscious Bias Websites University of Edinburgh Equality and Diversity Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) Equality Challenge Unit Equate Scotland Project Implicit - Take a test. Project Implicit translates academic research into practical applications for addressing diversity and improving decision-making. SciSisters - A scientist sisterhood This article was published on 2024-06-17
