Equality and diversity promoters
Unconscious bias
The implicit associated test can be taken online at Harvard Project Implicit. The report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission presents a mixed picture, but concludes that unconscious bias training can change short-term implicit bias.- Harvard Project Implicit
- Stanford lab manager study
- Why does John get the STEM job rather than Jennifer?
- Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students, Moss-Racusin et al, PNAS 109 (2012) 16474–16479
- Equality Challenge Unit
- Criticism of the implicit association test (The Cut)
- Royal Society unconscious bias
- Unconscious bias training (Report from Equality and Human Rights Commision).
Black Lives Matter
- Eaton et al. How gender and race stereotypes impact the advancement of scholars in STEM: Professors biased evaluations of physics and biology post-doctoral candidates, Sex Roles 82 (2020) 127–141. (CVs with identical content but different names were sent for evaluation. Female candidates and candidates whose names suggested they were from ethnic minorities were rated more harshly.)
- White privilege: a critical account.
- Penelope McIntosh, White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack. 50 signs of privilege.
- What can we do to support anti-racism in the UK? A collection of resources in support of Black Lives Matter.
Equality and Diversity Reading Group
In 2020–21 I convened a reading group that discusses books, podcasts and research articles relevant to equality and diversity issues.
- Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race Reni Eddo-Lodge and the article by Eaton et al from above (October 2020).
- About race podcast by Reni Eddo-Lodge and Responses to 10 common criticisms of anti-racism action in STEM by Gosztyla et al (November 2020).
- Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsh (December 2020).
- Natives by Akala. Later serialized on Radio 4 read by the author (January 2021).
- Black and British: a forgotten history by David Olusoga. The author spoke at Royal Holloway in 2017 (February 2021).
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (March 2021).
- Transgender Histories by Susan Stryker (April 2021).
- Sewell Report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities and subsequent criticism (May 2021).
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf (June 2021).
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (August 2021).