EDI Caucus

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The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Caucus. Multidisciplinary project, funded by UKRI and British Academy, to create inclusive careers across the research and innovation systems in the UK. edicaucus.ac.uk

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EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jul 10

Are you a South Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, or Pakistani) woman academic working in a UK university? A researcher supervised by EDICa's James Richards is seeking to do 45-60 min confidential interviews on the lived experience of 1st & 2nd gen S. Asian women academics. Contact: ma4057@hw.ac.uk

South Asian woman with a supercomputer mainframe in the blurred background behind her stands smiling at the camera. She wears glasses, a lanyard, and holds a laptop.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jul 5

If you're in the Scottish central belt, come join us on 29 July on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh for a practical workshop on how to build inclusive workplaces, supporting disabled and neurodivergent employees. 29 July 10:30-13:00. Refreshments provided. Register: bit.ly/4xIPh0Y #HR #Inclusion #EDI

Building inclusive workplaces workshop - practical approaches to disability and neurodiversity inclusion. Inclusion starts with removing barriers. July 29 10:30-13:00. Panmure House Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Registration closes 15 July. Refreshments provided. BSL upon request.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 19

"The conference offered a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas with international scholars, receive insightful feedback, and contribute to important discussions on the implications of EDI for fairness and inclusion. A truly rewarding and enriching experience." -Siddhartha

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EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 19

Our postdoc Dr. Siddhartha Saxena, presented his research on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and algorithmic decision-making at the European Academy of Management conference 2026 in Kristiansand, Norway. #EURAM2026 #EDI #AlgorithmicDecisionMaking #Research #Inclusion 1/2

An Indian man with short hair and glasses stands in front of a large screen pointing to the audience. The slide's headline says Weak ties - a key but conditional resource.

An Indian man in glasses and white shirt standing in front of a large screen with a slide headed why this study matters.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 17

Dong finished with an invitation to our webinar.

Chinese woman standing at podium with slide sharing the webinar.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 17

“Particularly in terms of why would we send this money up to Scotland? That did kind of come up… it wasn’t explicit, but it was just sort of almost as if Scotland’s a long way away kind of thing” On peer review panel bias EDICa’s postdoc Dr Dong Lin presenting at #ARMA2026

Photo of a conference room with a Chinese woman standing at a podium looking at the presenting screen with the ARMA 2026 slide on it.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 17

Dara Little speaking in plenary session of #ARMA2026 from the American perspective on the current global #research landscape, emphasising the importance of speaking about the value of research to society.

Photo of conference stage with ARMA 2026 banners left and right and 6 speakers sat centre stage- 5 white women and one white man. The screen above them shows a word cloud and QR code.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 17

@cash4questions.bsky.social acknowledging the challenging sector we work in right now, which has been a bit of a theme in #ARMA2026 #Research #ResearchDevelopment

Photo of slide on screen showing a meme cartoon of a dog in a burning house drinking coffee and saying “This is fine”. The slide headed The sector right now…

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 16

EDICa postdoc Dr Dong Lin will be presenting tomorrow at the #ARMA2026 conference in Harrogate tomorrow, presenting "Beyond traditional EDI markers: unpacking biases in research funding assessment". Your correspondent, Fenella Watson, will also be attending the conference for career development.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Jun 10

Today and tomorrow EDICa are at the #CIPD #FestivalOfWork in London’s Excel arena. We’re sharing our virtual reality enabling workspaces programme and our menstrual health research. If you’re at the festival this week, come say hi at D92.

A group of five people standing in front of a conference stand about 3 metres wide. Three white women, one brown woman and one brown man with glasses.

The conference stand about 3 metres by 2 metres. The backdrop has cartoon panels taken from EDICa’s research. It says come talk to us about menstrual health and enabling workspaces. A table to the right has VR headsets and freebies.
A tv screen to the left has the BR programme.

External entrance to the Excel arena with steps leading up to it. The sky is bright but cloudy

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

A launch of the “Claiming Space: Muslim women’s experiences of academia” exhibition. 6th - 18th June. Open to public Mon-Sun, 9-6. UCL East (Gallery B - first floor, Marshgate Building). Part of wider research project exploring Muslim women’s experiences of U.K. Higher Ed.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

Another comic strip! This one we did on Peer Review Panels. Those hidden biases preferring your UCL over Uni of Westminster, your Newcastle over Northumbria Uni, or Edinburgh Uni over Edinburgh Napier Uni. edicaucus.ac.uk/peer-review-... Follow the link for the pdf, the png and for Alt text

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

Is all publicity good publicity? Navigating public backlash to LGBTQ+ Research An EDICa Flexible Fund project is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, 24 June 2026 12:30-14:00 BST online (BSL is available). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-na...

Illustration of a pair of hands hovering over a laptop keyboard. Out of the laptop screen five vipers in varying colours and stripes reach out to sink their sharp fangs into the hands. The hands have visible pierce marks all over and a few bandages suggesting it is not the first time.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

EDICa's comic strip depicting a deaf woman navigating menstrual health condition in research and with medical settings not respecting her wishes. Full comic strip is here: edicaucus.ac.uk/isabella/ Alt text is here edicaucus.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

One of EDICa's flexible fund projects is hosting a stakeholder workshop in Bristol on "The Impact of Hybrid Working on Black Women Academics: Productivity and Visibility in Post-COVID Higher Education" 10 June 10-4pm forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

The image is a poster advertising A stakeholder workshop on the topic of the impact of hybrid work on black female academics: visibility and productivity in post COVID-19. 2 images of black women our company by their names and titles and institution. Both Dr Tinkuma Edafioghor and Dr Ifeoma Dan-Ogosi are at the university of the West of England, Bristol. The time of the workshop is Wednesday, 10th of June 2026, 10:00 to 1600. Event highlights include, what policies can we feasibly design to support black women academics in their roles in higher education? What policies should be introduced to recognise and address the impact of intersectionality on black female academics? How can we amplify the impact of our study to benefit black women academics and their employers? How can institutions better support black female academics to gain visibility, progression, and sustained productivity in the UK higher education?

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

EDICa's just published our very short but very practical guidance for healthcare professionals on how to check in with their patients with menstrual health conditions, on how it's impacting their work! If the treatment prevents them from doing their job... 🙃 go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Health...

Guidance for healthcare professionals on menstrual health in the workplace. A practical resource when speaking with people experiencing menstrual health conditions, perimenopause and menopause. URL and QR.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 29

If you work in the research sector - are involved in funding panels, applications, demand management, or work in EDI in research institutions, this one's for you. EDICa is launching on 30 June 3-4pm four reports on EDI in the Research Process. On zoom. Register: go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Resear...

announcement with info from the skeet.
Good practice guides include research panels, demand management, flexible fund administration, and EDI training. on zoom.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· May 21

EDICa's hosting free training for men to learn about menstrual health and menopause as a leadership and business priority. This is following 4 workshops we hosted at which no men attended. So we're creating a space for men to learn. 2 June 10-12 BST on Zoom. go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Allyship

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Apr 20

EDICa's running a "State of the Sector" survey for the UK's research and innovation sector. go.hw.ac.uk/Workplace2026 Anyone who works in research and innovation is eligible, including PGRs. Museums, small start-up innovation companies, archives, galleries, universities, research institutes.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Apr 1

Call for participants! a quick State of the Sector survey. Who should respond? ANYONE who works in the UK's research and innovation sector. Public, private, third sectors. Gov departments like DSIT and DEFRA. PhD students, admins, techs, lecturers, researchers go.hw.ac.uk/Workplace2026 share!

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 26

C-DICE presented their EDI toolkit which is designed to train researchers on improving their research design and proposals. www.cdice.ac.uk/online-train... #EDIConf26

Screen with link to the toolkit. See post.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 25

U of York’s Chemistry department sharing what they’ve learned in their Gold Award Athena SWAN initiatives. #EDI2026 “Our shared belief is that good practice benefits everyone, while bad practice is to the severe detriment of minoritised groups.”

Slide on screen. Chemistry of York approach. “Our shared belief is that good practice benefits everyone, while bad practice is to the severe detriment of minoritised groups.”

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 25

In @advancehe.bsky.social #EDI2026 conference. NCRC presentation on Women in Academia report. Conclusion was that it’s not women not leaning in enough, not a confidence problem, there are structural reasons why there’s a lack of women in upper ranks. warwick.ac.uk/research/res...

Screen showing a workshop visual depiction by Nifty Fox.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 25

De Montford Uni in Leicester England is first ever institution to achieve Silver level in Race Equality Charter. Here to learn and be inspired.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 25

Your correspondent has been let out to attend Advance HE’s #EDI2026 conference. Provocative keynote by VC of Brighton. Should we be quieter about EDI in this financially constrained environment?

Conference hall with lots of diverse people in chairs. In distance a slide of EDI conference. Additional Screen to left has subtitles and on right has BSL provision.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 10

A side project of EDICA’s on disability inclusive careers in engineering and sciences. (DICE) Our two DICE comics feature in this training which you can also see at this link. edicaucus.ac.uk/improving-wo...

Screenshot of a one page cartoon on disabling interview practices. A brown skinned woman gets an interview invitation then faces the panel which is bigger than promised. Her mind keeps focusing on distractions around her. The question is hypothetical and she panics but then someone else rephrases it. Discussion after she leaves is on her social behaviour not qualifications. She gets an email about the internet and leaves you hanging about if she got it.

A one page comic screenshot on living with a hidden condition. A Young white man in informal suit is exhausted, talking to friend on phone as walks in the door thinking back to his tiring day. Had to take train to work as car is in shop. Heads straight to toilet. Recuperates a bit midway thru the day in a quiet space with tea and armchair tipped back. Then work pressures build up. There’s no bin in his toilet for his pad so he has to secretly take it out with him and put in the bin outside the office building. Colleagues go out for drinks but he can’t. Collapses at home. All this time a battery indicator over his head shows how little energy he has and how he drains through the day.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 10

Today our first Train the Trainer workshop on improving employment experiences in the research & innovation sector. Still spots available for our online workshops coming up. Two dates available with #BSL edicaucus.ac.uk/impact#Train...

A conference room with two screens on the wall showing a slide asking questions of what you already know and what you’re hoping to learn. A white woman with dark brown hair wearing jeans and blue button up over white shirt stands listening.

Screenshot of dates of upcoming workshops. 20 March 10-12 with BSL available. 24 March 10-11:30; 20 April 14-15:30; 30 April 10-11:30; 1 May 10-12 BSL only.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Mar 5

EDICa team members are in the Royal Geographical Society’s headquarters across from Hyde Park today, running the second workshop on enabling workspaces. Great discussions and shared learning.

Entrance to red brick Victorian building with a metal ramp over the threshold.

A conference room with Lego and handouts on the table and four people with Vr headsets on. An Indian man stands beside a tv screen showing slides.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Feb 25

UCL are looking for UK-based wheelchair-using lab users to test out their design. Is it easy to take on/off? Comfortable? How're those pockets & fastenings? Any safety concerns? etc. Contact ucleast.labcoats@ucl.ac.uk for more info. #AccessForAll #DEI #EDI #AcademicSky

Calling wheelchair users who work in wet labs (including in NHS settings) to user-test a new lab coat. Contact UCLEast.labcoats@ucl.ac.uk. Split photo shows a woman in a powered wheelchair with a long royal blue buttoned-up labcoat which stretches down the tops of her feet. It totally covers her lap and her hands are tucked into the pockets.

EDI Caucus@edicaucus· Feb 24

Today is our first VR workshop where we discuss enabling workspaces for the research and innovation sector. In addition to the VR experience we used Lego play to explore enabling workspaces. Still time to sign up to our London sessions 5 March! Edicaucus.ac.uk/vr