Educate Yourself

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

Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (PNAS, 2012) (664.78 KB PDF)

Successful female leaders empower women's behavior in leadership tasks (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013) (566.5 KB PDF)

Now Hiring! Empirically Testing a Three-Step Intervention to Increase Faculty Gender Diversity in STEM (Bioscience, 2015) (210.02 KB PDF)

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