SoPA EDI Open Forum

Name: SoPA EDI Open Forum
Start: 2023-09-07T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-09-07T11:00:00+01:00
Location: JCMB

Thursday 7 Sep 2023, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/London

6206 (JCMB)

6206

JCMB

Description

Video capture of the forum is available at:

https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/SoPA+EDI+Open+Forum+7th+September+2023/1_ctarcwtq

Below are links to all the slides presented in the Forum.

On the last item click "Minutes" to see a summary of the Q&A session.

- 10:00 → 10:15
  
  EDI committee & EDI Action Plan 15m
  
  Speaker: Victoria Martin (University of Edinburgh)
  
  EDI-Open-Forum-7Sep23.pdf
- 10:15 → 10:25
  
  School Statistics 10m
  
  Speaker: Susanna Richmond
  
  EDI forum - Juno stats slides (2).pptx
- 10:25 → 10:40
  
  SoPA workplace culture survey 2022 results 15m
  
  Speakers: Laura Keating (Institute for Astronomy), Michael Petersen
  
  StaffSurvey.pdf
- 10:40 → 10:55
  Committee Q&A 15m
  
  Minutes
  In the Q&A we discussed:
  
  Pre-submitted Q: What is the School doing to address the gender pay gap? A: need to discuss with School management.
  
  Q: Should we look beyond gender?
  
  A: Yes, the EDI committee is to some extent. We will try to produce some statistics on race - made harder as students generally do not declare their race anymore. Some of the focus on gender has come due to IOP Juno and Athena SWAN focus on gender. These awards are changing to new models with a broader focus beyond gender.
  
  Q: School has grown and post-Covid there's many new people and we don't all know who everyone is.
  
  How about a monthly email with a short paragraph and optional photo introducing new people?
  
  Could we have an in-person School induction for new-staff, e.g. quaterly.
  
  A: EDI committee will work with School HR team to try to produce something similar.
  
  Q: Other data requested:
  
  Culture Survey results broken down by Institute
  
  Staff data on fixed-term vs open-ended contracts split by gender?
  
  A: OK - we will produce these
  
  Other comments from attendees
  
  Too many resources to find out information about the School and procedures (including EDI); updated staff handbook and everyone knowing about the handbook would be very helpful.
  
  Many staff didn't agree with the statement "my workload is manageable". Without fixing this, it might not be possible to also address issues around mental health support.

SoPA EDI Open Forum

6206

JCMB

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