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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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

Thank you in advance for your support.

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    I wasn't trying to suggest that the issue relates to engineering as a career, for me that is pretty much being addressed and I observe improvements daily (anecdotal - better informed questions being asked by potential course candidates and their parents in FE) . 

    I was trying to highlight that there are numerous campaigns already in existence and growing, some better than others, and yes, the review probably needs to be revisited. However, I do think that with any campaign it has to be wholly inclusive, not just one group or another. Young people in FE and apprentices at L3 and 4 feel disenfranchised because there is a lot for those pre-engineering and those at undergraduate and graduate level (apprentices do not, whatever opinion might otherwise suggest, earn a lot of money and thus may need additional financial support). So again, we need to consider the inbetweeners? Those who do not follow the A'Level/T'Level, degree route; those outliers who may go on to be fantastic engineers, whatever diversity group they fit into.

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    I wasn't trying to suggest that the issue relates to engineering as a career, for me that is pretty much being addressed and I observe improvements daily (anecdotal - better informed questions being asked by potential course candidates and their parents in FE) . 

    I was trying to highlight that there are numerous campaigns already in existence and growing, some better than others, and yes, the review probably needs to be revisited. However, I do think that with any campaign it has to be wholly inclusive, not just one group or another. Young people in FE and apprentices at L3 and 4 feel disenfranchised because there is a lot for those pre-engineering and those at undergraduate and graduate level (apprentices do not, whatever opinion might otherwise suggest, earn a lot of money and thus may need additional financial support). So again, we need to consider the inbetweeners? Those who do not follow the A'Level/T'Level, degree route; those outliers who may go on to be fantastic engineers, whatever diversity group they fit into.

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