challenges changes - oxford university
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jess wade, @jesswadeimperial college london
from 🏠!
october 26
challenges + changes
in physics
she/her
thank you
japanese wisteria chinese wisteria
encrypted communicationsspintronics
high performance displays
medical imaging
quantum optics
magnetic field sensing
positionality statement.
life sciences
16 yearsphysics
258 years
https://lukeholman.github.io/genderGap/10.1371/journal.pbio.2004956
challenges
access to and participation in physics research is not fair.
20 %women
10 %a-level computer science
students
.iop.org/about/strategy/limit-less
iop.org/what-were-doing-address-gender-imbalance-physics
royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/computing-in-schools/
0.5 %Black Caribbean
descent
15 %from a
disadvantaged
background
beyond GCSE (age 15/16) physics
men scoring @ or
below 1st
percentile in
PECS ≈ women
in 80th percentile
outperform boys in
computing,
advanced maths
and physics
10.1126/science.aba7377
“As the country confronts systemic
racism and other forms of
discrimination, those of us in
physics departments need to reflect
on how we may be inadvertently
propping up these barriers.”
aps.org/publications/apsnews/202010/backpage.cfm
Carl Wieman
Physics departments are unknowingly driving
many students from under-represented
groups out of physics and other STEM fields
by having introductory courses in which less
prepared students are likely to do badly.
These students' only “mistake” is to come
from school districts with less money and
worse physics teaching.
“When departments attribute
differences in student
performance to differences in
talent, rather than differences in
educational privilege, they are
sustaining and enhancing these
systemic inequities.”
2.5 xmore likely to
study physics at
an all-girls school favoured private
schools
35 %computer science +
physics teachers
have a relevant
degree
royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/computing-education/
iop.org/about/publications/opening-doors
19,868UKRI PhD studentships
30went to Black Caribbean
students
https://leadingroutes.org/mdocs-posts/the-broken-pipeline-barriers-to-black-students-accessing-research-council-
funding
1/3rd75 %UK universities
have no policy on
staff-student
relationships
women physics
students had
experienced
unwanted sexual
harassment
10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010121
< 10%report to
institution
academic culture
scientific funding
less likely to apply for
large grants, less likely
to be successful if a
person of colour
university
support
less likely to be
supported for
promotion
10.1038/nature.2017.21839
epsrc.ukri.org/files/aboutus/epsrcunderstandingourportfolio-agenderperspectivereport/
10.1177/2378023117738903, 10.1038/d41586-018-06678-6
research time
more likely to take on
service roles and
teaching
more likely to suffer
from bias in peer
review, less likely to
self-cite
peer review
£4.3m
£0to Black PIs
3/6to a member of the
panel
@AddyAdelaine
ladders4action.org/our_team/addy/
+ Dr Lia Li, Hope Bretscher and Dr Erinma Ochuyoutu.be/VyC3Qr_5CUY
19,285 professors
17,850identified as white
advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/equality-higher-education-statistical-report-2019
blackfemaleprofessorsforum.org/
35identified as Black
women
🇬🇧
11
Black woman professor of physics
Black woman professor of
computer science
40%LGBT scientists aren’t out
at work
https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2020/06/19/lgbtqia-in-the-field/
11th November, Dr Clara Barker
changes
“recognize that
student success [in
physics] has little to
do with talent and a
great deal to do with
educational
privilege.”
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53158292
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.0877
Wikipedia
is the world’s
most
frequently
visited
website
on march 29, 2020, Wikipedia got
views.
million
what’s on Wikipedia matters.
….is what matters is on Wikipedia?
https://www.denelezh.org/
£ 0
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
Dr Kathryn Boast
@Kathryn_EB
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
listen, read and reflect
shutdownstem.com/resources
Prof Chanda
Prescod-Weinstein
@IBJIYONGI
youtu.be/X3bhLLXqlo4
synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/bio-equalityanddiversity/2019/03/30/lecture-on-neurodiversity-prof-sara-rankin/
review policies + procedures
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
listen, read and reflect
UG admissionsPhD recruitmentseminar speakers
interviews letters of recommendationprize/ grant allocation
evaluate
scientist
judge
science
10.1038/d41586-019-02064-y
10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32611-4
24 %success rate
hubble
telescope
13 %8.7 %
8.0 %
review policies + procedures
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
listen, read and reflect
be an ally, advocate or mentor
review policies + procedures
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
listen, read and reflect
call for change
be an ally, advocate or mentor
review policies + procedures
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
listen, read and reflect
be prepared to give up your space
call for change
be an ally, advocate or mentor
review policies + procedures
meaningful work with school students, teachers + parents
think about who we celebrate and amplify
listen, read and reflect
be prepared to give up your space
remember why this work is important
call for change
be an ally, advocate or mentor
more fair legal decisions
innovationhigher profit margins
more accurately priced stocks
higher citation metrics
10.1111/ecge.12016
10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.597
10.1073/pnas.1407301111
mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion
10.1038/s41467-018-07634-8
10.1038/497557a
Prof Ijeoma Uchegbuyoutu.be/VyC3Qr_5CUY
Dr Emma Chapman
@DrEOChapman
October 25 – 31
#BlackInPhysics
