Well maybe. As someone who fully supports inclusivity and diversity, I still don’t know what to write in those statements. And as someone who sits on selection and promotion panels, unless someone admitted to being a nazi I don’t know how those statements can be used meaningfully
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Replying to @Anth_McGregor @twitemp1 and
This may be a different problem to the profs in the emails, but I do think we’re sometimes asked to write things that can’t be assessed meaningfully, and are therefore simply paying lip service to the important issues the statements are supposed to raise.
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Replying to @Anth_McGregor @o_guest and
Mere statements are certainly insufficient. But see, the reality is that there are problems with diversity and people who oppose taking specific measures to help ameliorating the problem. We have just been witness of it. >
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Replying to @twitemp1 @Anth_McGregor and
Critically, no man has opposed to those words, except for the moderator who said sought some conciliation. Few women have. No surprise there either. People seem comfortable with the status quo and avoiding confrontation.
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Good point. I think it’s important to make sure there’s a place to acknowledge the importance of EDI, but I think it has to be institutional primarily. I worry Universities use EDI statements to simply tick a box
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Replying to @Anth_McGregor @o_guest and
Sometimes standing against some declarations and speaking up helps. But you and I know very well, that that is not going to happen.
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In our last promotion round every member of my department declared a deep personal commitment to supporting EDI and I believed every one. But when the cards are stacked by the system, how can we personally be expected to initiate change? Need institutional commitment too
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Replying to @Anth_McGregor @o_guest and
What about speaking up in this list and state clearly that you do not support such declarations or do you? Yes, yes, I know, it would be useless and inconvenient. In fact, what it was said was not that bad, .... I've seen all these excuses before.
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Fair enough. I’ve added my voice to the email chain
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Replying to @Anth_McGregor @o_guest and
Thank you very much Antony and Mark. It is the first step we must all take.
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Thank you, Esther.
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