Resources: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Reports and Research

Royal Astronomical Society careers booklet promoting diversity in STEM

The Royal Astronomical Society have just released a new careers booklet that promotes diversity in STEM for students making decisions about future careers. Here you can download the resource.

Institute of Physics report: Closing Doors - Exploring gender and subject choice in schools

Download the Institute of Physics report that explores the patterns of bias in pupil subject choices at school.

CaSE: Improving Diversity in STEM

In a report by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), the ways in which the political agenda addresses diversity put forward so that a political 'will' can become meaningful action.

Our Space Our Future, moving 'interest' in space towards 'identity' and ‘aspiration

Reports echo many of the findings of Space Awareness and suggest the methodology required to shift an interest in space into self-belief and confidence to realistically consider a space career as an exciting and relevant aspiration for students facing significant barriers to STEM participation and aspiration.

Policy Review - Diversity

Report by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE)SummaryThere is a growing recognition of the benefits of diversity and inclusion, in addition to the moral case,particularly in its importance in…

Improving Gender Balance: Reflections on the impact of interventions in schools

An Institute of Physics Report | March 2017Executive SummaryFor more than 30 years only a fifth of those taking A-level physics have been girls. Over that period every effort to…

Paul Hamlyn Foundations: Whose cake is it anyway?

A collaborative investigation into engagement and participation in 12 museums and galleries in the UK

Opening Doors: A guide to good practice in countering gender stereotyping in schools

The Institute of Physics has been investigating and working on the problem of gender imbalance in subject choice for many years. The Opening Doors project has gathered evidence and identified aspects of good practice in this area. This guide is the main output of the Opening Doors project.

Dr. Emily Dawson's Reflection Exercise to highlight issues around white, class, gender privilege in Science Centres and Museums

Emily Dawson's Reflection ExerciseDr. Emily Dawson has shared her reflection exercise which she adapted from Peggy McIntosh's White Privilege: Upacking the Invisible Knapsack (1988) to fit with the Science Centres…