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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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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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    ….we should probably publish diversity reports of our elected Fellowship, Trustee board, Council etc too 

    Just a thought on this, I have long thought there is (or at least may be) a diversity issue on the BoT and Council, and various committees, just not one that's usually considered: for a full time employed engineer it is VERY difficult to be part of these, just from the time commitment. It is noticeable how many of those in these positions are the self employed, retired, academics or in other positions where it is easier to make the time. Of course it's not the rule, there are many exceptions, but for those exceptions it can be (as I know from friends who have done it) very difficult.

    So looking at how Council roles in particular can be made more accessible to, and hence representative of, engineers in engineering roles (who, male or female, could well have family and other commitments as well) could be very valuable. I do acknowledge that this is really difficult!

    And kudos to those who do push their managers and give up other commitments so that they can do it.

    Thanks,

    Andy

     

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    ….we should probably publish diversity reports of our elected Fellowship, Trustee board, Council etc too 

    Just a thought on this, I have long thought there is (or at least may be) a diversity issue on the BoT and Council, and various committees, just not one that's usually considered: for a full time employed engineer it is VERY difficult to be part of these, just from the time commitment. It is noticeable how many of those in these positions are the self employed, retired, academics or in other positions where it is easier to make the time. Of course it's not the rule, there are many exceptions, but for those exceptions it can be (as I know from friends who have done it) very difficult.

    So looking at how Council roles in particular can be made more accessible to, and hence representative of, engineers in engineering roles (who, male or female, could well have family and other commitments as well) could be very valuable. I do acknowledge that this is really difficult!

    And kudos to those who do push their managers and give up other commitments so that they can do it.

    Thanks,

    Andy

     

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