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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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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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    My bigger concern is, and has always been, the huge percentage of the engineering profession who do not consider the IET, or any other PEI, worth joining - there are far more engineers in the UK outside the PEIs than inside them. That suggests to me that we may well have a diversity issue ourselves, that it is possible that people who join PEIs (and remain in them) are the type of people who join PEIs, not necessarily representative of the engineering profession

     

    i shall try and avoid trading on any of the UXBs left by previous posters.  

    I am not an IET member, but I am a practicing consultant engineer, in a field for which on paper I am not very well qualified, but I am doing very well.

    But rather than ask ‘why do I not join the IET ?’  perhaps try not to assume it is automatically a good thing, and we all should. 

    Rather, let's ask critically what I would get from joining. 

    For me it would offer a periodically drain on the bank balance, a restaurant in London I would never visit, and a set of publications I would not have time to read. It would not offer security of employment or higher wages (it is not a union) it would not offer a better career path - I am already at max capacity. Nor would it offer prestige - if the IET made statements the way the BMA does, it might be an organisation more widely heard of. 

    So, I stay outside, and I suspect others make a similar calculation.

    Mike.

    (for the wonderers. I am male and white, state school educated, non-practicing C of E,  and a bit grumpy at times.. I think that none of that is relevant.)

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    My bigger concern is, and has always been, the huge percentage of the engineering profession who do not consider the IET, or any other PEI, worth joining - there are far more engineers in the UK outside the PEIs than inside them. That suggests to me that we may well have a diversity issue ourselves, that it is possible that people who join PEIs (and remain in them) are the type of people who join PEIs, not necessarily representative of the engineering profession

     

    i shall try and avoid trading on any of the UXBs left by previous posters.  

    I am not an IET member, but I am a practicing consultant engineer, in a field for which on paper I am not very well qualified, but I am doing very well.

    But rather than ask ‘why do I not join the IET ?’  perhaps try not to assume it is automatically a good thing, and we all should. 

    Rather, let's ask critically what I would get from joining. 

    For me it would offer a periodically drain on the bank balance, a restaurant in London I would never visit, and a set of publications I would not have time to read. It would not offer security of employment or higher wages (it is not a union) it would not offer a better career path - I am already at max capacity. Nor would it offer prestige - if the IET made statements the way the BMA does, it might be an organisation more widely heard of. 

    So, I stay outside, and I suspect others make a similar calculation.

    Mike.

    (for the wonderers. I am male and white, state school educated, non-practicing C of E,  and a bit grumpy at times.. I think that none of that is relevant.)

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