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Help inform our next campaign

Natalie Boon

Hi everyone!

Hope you're safe and well.

We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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

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    Out of interest I just looked it up:

    woke

    adjective

    aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woke

    woke

    2. ADJECTIVE

    Someone who is woke is very aware of social and political unfairness.

    www.collinsdictionary.com/.../woke

    (The OED, which I'd usually go to first - showing my own prejudices there! - only seems to be available online through subscription.)

    Given those two definitions I would certainly like to be, and would aim to be, woke, although I suspect I - like most of us - am mostly not as aware of such issues as I could be.

    I suspect different people here are using the word to mean different things, so personally I would strongly suggest we stop using it at all in this thread and each spell out what we actually mean for the avoidance of doubt. (Actually it isn't a word I'd personally use, for precisely that reason of ambiguity. An ambiguous word, or more accurately in this case a word that appears to change its meaning depending on the audience, is a pretty useless word.) 

    Thanks,

    Andy

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    Out of interest I just looked it up:

    woke

    adjective

    aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woke

    woke

    2. ADJECTIVE

    Someone who is woke is very aware of social and political unfairness.

    www.collinsdictionary.com/.../woke

    (The OED, which I'd usually go to first - showing my own prejudices there! - only seems to be available online through subscription.)

    Given those two definitions I would certainly like to be, and would aim to be, woke, although I suspect I - like most of us - am mostly not as aware of such issues as I could be.

    I suspect different people here are using the word to mean different things, so personally I would strongly suggest we stop using it at all in this thread and each spell out what we actually mean for the avoidance of doubt. (Actually it isn't a word I'd personally use, for precisely that reason of ambiguity. An ambiguous word, or more accurately in this case a word that appears to change its meaning depending on the audience, is a pretty useless word.) 

    Thanks,

    Andy

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