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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.

Last chance to sign up to our workshop in Kensington, London Thursday 5 March. The EDICa team catch the train to Kings Cross 🚂 tomorrow morning.

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

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

Call for survey participants - Current & past part-time PhD students - AND their supervisors. Looking at experiences of PT PGRs. Run by U of Salford. If your institution gets >30 responses, you get a findings report specific to your institution. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/st...

Student Survey Exploring Part-Time Doctoral Student ExperiencesOnline surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

And affects the diversity of that pipeline.

This #Ramadan we're sharing a useful resource for supporting colleagues and students in higher ed - also applicable for work. Key = "the importance of listening to the perspectives of Muslim[s], not making assumptions, and learning from what they say." 1/4 figshare.edgehill.ac.uk/articles/edu...

Updated to include the image flyer. Feel free to share. Supporting black staff and PGRs to attend this kind of conference could be a good idea for organisations who don't have a critical mass of black scholars, helping to provide a support network for them. #EDI #DEI #AcademicSky

Conference 16 April @cetiwestminster.bsky.social in Oxford Circus, London. Holding the Space: Shining a Light on Black Academics. Appears to be free? westminster.cventevents.com/event/websit... "Will spotlight, amplify, & invest in research scholarship of Black scholars/students/prof services."

"Mind the motherhood gap: what the motherhood penalty costs all of us, and how we should change course." An in-person Oxford day of action and insight. Thurs 19 March 9-4 - FREE www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/mind-...

Mind the motherhood gap: What the motherhood penalty costs all of us - and how we change course | Saïd Business SchoolJoin a day of action and insight as we explore the true cost of the motherhood penalty.www.sbs.ox.ac.uk

We've had some good take-up of our workshops creating guidance on how to make a menstrual health action plan (required by new Employment Rights Bill). But it's all women! Men in management, senior leadership, HR and EDI also need to contribute. Details: edicaucus.ac.uk/impact/#mens...

a man in a suit and tie is saying oh my god where are all the men .Alt: Chandler from Friends in a suit having just walked in a doorway is saying oh my god! where are all the men? and then turns and stomps outmedia.tenor.com

Usualising LGTBQ+ identities in secondary school science and maths. A resource with videos and posts for use in secondary schools or undergrad. Online event 13 February 4pm UK time. www.outsavvy.com/event/32735/...

"For Black students who frequently encounter isolation or racialisation, belonging is not a soft outcome. It is the baseline condition for academic persistence and success."

The new #EmploymentRightsBill is requiring organisations over 250 employees to have a "Menopause Action Plan". EDICa's consulting with government advocating this covers #MenstrualHealth more widely. We're hosting workshops on what would an Action Plan look like. edicaucus.ac.uk/impact#menst... 1/2

Do you have an estates department? Maybe architects working on workspaces? Send this to them! We've workshops in Edinburgh on 24 February & in South Kensington, London on 5 March on how to create enabling workplaces for employees. Local travel remunerated. Sign up: edicaucus.ac.uk/vr/

If you're in the UK's research & innovation ecosystem (including private sector R&D etc) and you want to up your game on supporting disabled people in the workforce, come learn from us for free. 4 dates online or 10 March in Edinburgh (local travel remunerated) More: edicaucus.ac.uk/impact/#Trai...

Wellcome Trust funding for Black Heritage UK researchers Share widely! "This is a pioneering grant and capacity-building programme that provides £13,000–£48,000 in multi-year funding to Black-led initiatives impacting the lives of Black researchers. 1/2 www.doitnownow.com/innovate-now...

STEM, LGTBQ+ and You Conference 27th February in Birmingham and online - free. For allies and those outside of STEM too! Come to learn and share. www.outsavvy.com/event/33166/...

Our own Chiara Cocco's blog is published.

The new #EmploymentRightsBill expects organisations with more than 250 employees to have a #Menopause Action Plan. What does that look like and what should it include? How does an organisation implement and evaluate an action plan? For outside academia: edicaucus.ac.uk/impact/#mens... 🧵