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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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

    Does IET have figures for the proportions of these various groups & categories under discussion?

    I mean, a) in the population, b) practicing at specific level, c) and with membership of IET?

    I recall seeing some (not all!) of this data when looking at the IET's EDI strategy a few months ago. I agree it would be very interesting to see for the sake of transparency, and identifying where we need to do better as an organisation!

    I wonder what the differences would look like when stratifying by things like membership type, professional registration level, activeness in terms of volunteering and local networks, etc. If for example we end up recruiting a diverse bunch of engineers to the membership but they're not being equipped with the skills/opportunities to reach professional registration, that in itself could be an issue worth investigating.

    Edit: in fact, at risk of ruffling a few feathers - in the interests of transparency and holding ourselves to account, we should probably publish diversity reports of our elected Fellowship, Trustee board, Council etc too ? (unless we're doing this already, which would be great!)

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    Gideon: 
     

    Does IET have figures for the proportions of these various groups & categories under discussion?

    I mean, a) in the population, b) practicing at specific level, c) and with membership of IET?

    I recall seeing some (not all!) of this data when looking at the IET's EDI strategy a few months ago. I agree it would be very interesting to see for the sake of transparency, and identifying where we need to do better as an organisation!

    I wonder what the differences would look like when stratifying by things like membership type, professional registration level, activeness in terms of volunteering and local networks, etc. If for example we end up recruiting a diverse bunch of engineers to the membership but they're not being equipped with the skills/opportunities to reach professional registration, that in itself could be an issue worth investigating.

    Edit: in fact, at risk of ruffling a few feathers - in the interests of transparency and holding ourselves to account, we should probably publish diversity reports of our elected Fellowship, Trustee board, Council etc too ? (unless we're doing this already, which would be great!)

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