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Help inform our next campaign

Hi everyone!

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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.

We're starting work on our next campaign - and we need your help!

Our focus for this phase is on how we can take real, tangible steps to unite our community to make engineering and technology a career path that is accessible to everyone.

So, what’s your experience? Tell us by adding your thoughts below.

We want to hear from everyone, and we mean everyone. We believe that continuing to thrive in this sector can only happen if we all connect and work together, and that means we need all viewpoints – positive, negative, and even the grey area in between!

So whether you have had good or bad experiences, whatever your background, and whether you identify with different protected characteristics or not – we want to hear from you.

And if you’re comfortable sharing your thoughts in a little more detail, we’re looking for a broad mix of individuals to be interviewed in the next few weeks. You can submit your details for consideration via this link.

And if you would prefer to remain anonymous but still have a viewpoint you’d like to share – no problem! You can send us your thoughts using this form instead.

Thank you in advance for your support.

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0 mgpritchard over 2 years ago

I think some of the commentary here highlights the need to do more work to educate on the necessity of EDI, and the extent to which it is integral to the “hard sciences”. There is sometimes discussion of divorcing the human aspects of engineering from the technical, but to use a trite example one only needs to look as far as Turing to see the devastating impact that institutionalised prejudice can have both on the individual and on the progress of technology (that is to say, had his life not been cut short at 41, who knows what further contributions he may have had to offer). I'm not so sure that the human and the technical can be neatly compartmentalised - after all, it's humans who ultimately use the technology!
On a personal level I was delighted to see Neurodiversity be on the IET's EDI agenda, as someone with ADHD myself, and would love to see more work in that area. There is some evidence that the prevalence of neurodivergent conditions is higher in Engineering disciplines than in others, yet it is often one of the most overlooked aspects of EDI and accessibility.
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0 mgpritchard over 2 years ago

I think some of the commentary here highlights the need to do more work to educate on the necessity of EDI, and the extent to which it is integral to the “hard sciences”. There is sometimes discussion of divorcing the human aspects of engineering from the technical, but to use a trite example one only needs to look as far as Turing to see the devastating impact that institutionalised prejudice can have both on the individual and on the progress of technology (that is to say, had his life not been cut short at 41, who knows what further contributions he may have had to offer). I'm not so sure that the human and the technical can be neatly compartmentalised - after all, it's humans who ultimately use the technology!
On a personal level I was delighted to see Neurodiversity be on the IET's EDI agenda, as someone with ADHD myself, and would love to see more work in that area. There is some evidence that the prevalence of neurodivergent conditions is higher in Engineering disciplines than in others, yet it is often one of the most overlooked aspects of EDI and accessibility.
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