PG Week: Gender & Diversity forum
The theme for the rest of PG Week is ‘Connecting,’ and of course tomorrow we will all connect at the major events of the PG year – the Postgraduate Symposium […]
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Gender and Diversity Research Group postgraduate research grant
The purpose of this grant is to support and encourage research Masters or PhD students interested in researching in the broad area of gender and diversity issues. The grant is […]
Diversity Week: Does your research acknowledge intersectionality?
It’s easy to think of diversity in terms of nice neat categories: ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, religion… But nobody can be reduced to one simple characteristic. Everybody has an ethnicity, […]
Diversity Week: Diversity in sample groups
Obvious statement #1: Much research happens on university campuses. Obvious statement #2: University students represent a convenient source of human subjects for research purposes. Obvious statement #3: University student populations […]
Diversity Week: Avoiding unconscious bias in research
Very few people admit to being racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, or otherwise discriminatory. But even those who don’t feel hatred towards a particular group can still exhibit a bias. This […]
Diversity Week: What is diversity in academia?
When a company references their “diversity plan,” they’re often talking about a plan to meet an ethnicity or gender quota among their staff or in their boardrooms. But diversity in […]
Diversity Week: 10 – 14 August 2015
Great news, Thesislinkers… next week is Diversity Week at AUT! Every year, Diversity Week celebrates the great variety of students and staff at AUT. It’s about acknowledging and accepting people […]