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The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Caucus. Multidisciplinary project, funded by UKRI and British Academy, to create inclusive careers across the research and innovation systems in the UK. edicaucus.ac.uk

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Screenshot of website resource listing showing two. Menstrual health action plan guidance. Image shows birds eye view of a table and people workshopping ideas with post-it notes. Menstrual health baseline survey guide. Image shows white woman on ridge top looking at the view through binoculars.

South Asian woman with a supercomputer mainframe in the blurred background behind her stands smiling at the camera. She wears glasses, a lanyard, and holds a laptop.

Building inclusive workplaces workshop - practical approaches to disability and neurodiversity inclusion. Inclusion starts with removing barriers. July 29 10:30-13:00. Panmure House Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Registration closes 15 July. Refreshments provided. BSL upon request.

A medium-sized meeting room with people sat at groups of tables.

An Indian man with short hair and glasses stands in front of a large screen pointing to the audience. The slide's headline says Weak ties - a key but conditional resource.

Chinese woman standing at podium with slide sharing the webinar.

Photo of a conference room with a Chinese woman standing at a podium looking at the presenting screen with the ARMA 2026 slide on it.

Photo of conference stage with ARMA 2026 banners left and right and 6 speakers sat centre stage- 5 white women and one white man. The screen above them shows a word cloud and QR code.

Photo of slide on screen showing a meme cartoon of a dog in a burning house drinking coffee and saying “This is fine”. The slide headed The sector right now…

ARMA 2026. Harrogate 16-18 June.

A group of five people standing in front of a conference stand about 3 metres wide. Three white women, one brown woman and one brown man with glasses.

Claiming Space: Muslim women’s experiences of academia. QR code and line drawings of a woman in a headscarf, and hands reaching out or clasping, and a woman holding up wave of lines in an abstract fashion. It has the details listed in the newsletter text and the logos of the funders and UCL.

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Illustration of a pair of hands hovering over a laptop keyboard. Out of the laptop screen five vipers in varying colours and stripes reach out to sink their sharp fangs into the hands. The hands have visible pierce marks all over and a few bandages suggesting it is not the first time.

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The image is a poster advertising A stakeholder workshop on the topic of the impact of hybrid work on black female academics: visibility and productivity in post COVID-19. 2 images of black women our company by their names and titles and institution. Both Dr Tinkuma Edafioghor and Dr Ifeoma Dan-Ogosi are at the university of the West of England, Bristol. The time of the workshop is Wednesday, 10th of June 2026, 10:00 to 1600. Event highlights include, what policies can we feasibly design to support black women academics in their roles in higher education? What policies should be introduced to recognise and address the impact of intersectionality on black female academics? How can we amplify the impact of our study to benefit black women academics and their employers? How can institutions better support black female academics to gain visibility, progression, and sustained productivity in the UK higher education?

Guidance for healthcare professionals on menstrual health in the workplace. A practical resource when speaking with people experiencing menstrual health conditions, perimenopause and menopause. URL and QR.

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Good practice guides include research panels, demand management, flexible fund administration, and EDI training. on zoom.

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Slide on screen. Chemistry of York approach. “Our shared belief is that good practice benefits everyone, while bad practice is to the severe detriment of minoritised groups.”

Screen showing a workshop visual depiction by Nifty Fox.

Screenshot of a one page cartoon on disabling interview practices. A brown skinned woman gets an interview invitation then faces the panel which is bigger than promised. Her mind keeps focusing on distractions around her. The question is hypothetical and she panics but then someone else rephrases it. Discussion after she leaves is on her social behaviour not qualifications. She gets an email about the internet and leaves you hanging about if she got it.

A conference room with two screens on the wall showing a slide asking questions of what you already know and what you’re hoping to learn. A white woman with dark brown hair wearing jeans and blue button up over white shirt stands listening.

Entrance to red brick Victorian building with a metal ramp over the threshold.

Calling wheelchair users who work in wet labs (including in NHS settings) to user-test a new lab coat. Contact UCLEast.labcoats@ucl.ac.uk. Split photo shows a woman in a powered wheelchair with a long royal blue buttoned-up labcoat which stretches down the tops of her feet. It totally covers her lap and her hands are tucked into the pockets.

Two people at a meeting table wearing vr headsets.

A photo of an incredibly standard square tiled low ceiling with strip lighting and spot lighting. Despite the bank of windows with natural light, the lights are on full.

Holding the Space 2026. Partial photo of a black woman and black man. QR code. 16th April 2026. Book tickets now. In a yellow circle it says U of Westminster. Regent's Street Campus. 309 Regent St, London, W1B 2HW. A series of logos at the bottom.

Photo of Meta's Quest VR headset and handsets sitting on a wooden table

screenshot of several panels of a comic strip showing a brown-skinned, black-haired woman going through a stressful interview process.

Photo of an ancient Roman brick wall about 8 foot high with big arches.

On a table a black tote bag and printed conference materials. The main one has a photo of a black woman in shawl and head covering with title The importance of black archives in preserving historical memory.

Four women pose beside a long yellow table with creative materials scattered across it. Two white women on the left, and on the right, a black woman with head covering and a Chinese woman with long black hair.

A classroom with tables with cups and pens and post it notes. At the board is a long stretch of white paper with a big arrow with lots of drawings and writing on it. The white woman illustrator stands adding more.

A white woman with long fair hair stands at a long stretch of white paper taped to a couple of classroom whiteboards. She stretches up to write at the top. Writing and small illustrations are on the left and right with white space in the middle for future drawings.

Comic showing four levels of panels. In first, Babbage is bored beside his machine. Narrative - Then, at a party on June 5th 1833... . Babbage sighs Nobody understands me. Lovelace can be seen studying the machine intently. She explodes, "Astounding!! In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter--". Babbage looks surprised. Eh? Ada continues, "and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science!!!!". Babbage exclaims in delight, Yes, yes exactly. Ada, still excited says, A new, vast, and powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis so it may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible!". A couple of party goers in the background mutter to each other "Hey look... we're present for the invention of the geek!". Lovelace looks at her fan saying This must be twittered! She looks confused, wait, this is a fan. Then sad. Suddenly there is a gaping hole in my life of which i was hitherto unaware.

An image of a road across a white background rumpled up into ups and downs.

Black square with Black History Month and the outline of Africa each featuring the red, mustard and green colours of Black History month. October 2025

Screenshot showing infographic. Part of headline is Solutions. A box shows a graphic of people working on a flowchart with the heading Barriers and Enables in Grant Application Writing Uncovered. The top of the next box is just visible with heading Narrative CV: Barriers and Facilitators.

Screenshot of cartoon strip in green tones. Four panels from left to right. First shows a plugged in smartphone buzzing alarm at 6am. Dialogue tells the reader "My own time is mostly in the morning. It's the time of day that is just for me. Second shows woman with fair shoulder length hair sitting cross legged in a living room, dog snoozing to one side, and says I meditate before anyone else is up. Third shows her walking a dog along a path with a wall, says Sometimes i go to yoga classes, walk the dog. Fourth has her looking at you and wearing glasses as she touches one of a set of family photos on the wall and says "You need to learn how to prioritise yourself when you have children."