Leadership training ‘benefits universities, not minority staff’
Times Higher Education
Effectiveness of courses aimed at improving diversity in leadership called into question by interviews with ethnic minority staff.
‘Rude’ peer reviews inflict most damage on women and minorities
Times Higher Education
Study says comments such as ‘she should be in the kitchen, not writing papers’ affect the careers of under-represented groups.
Imminent new sexual assault rules divide US campuses
Universities concede societal push to handle delicate matters in more legalistic ways.
The BAME attainment gap is not the fault of BAME students
Times Higher Education
Asking BAME students to spend significant amounts of time helping universities decolonise the curriculum is far from the ideal solution, says Daniel Akinbosede.
Academics ‘need training’ on sex and gender in research
Times Higher Education
Study says that universities need to ‘step up’ to continue progress made by funding agencies and journals.
Study reveals major gender imbalance in UK university spin-outs
Times Higher Education
Report also suggests that spin-outs founded and run by women receive less investment.
Turkish academics sound alarm over gender segregation plans
Times Higher Education
Presidential push for women’s universities accompanied by scrapping of gender action plan by regulator.
Fund individual academics, not PIs, ‘to stamp out sexual abuse’
Times Higher Education
Gender equality expert says higher education sector must ‘strengthen the economic independence of researchers’.
Harassed: Gender, Bodies and Ethnographic Research
Times Higher Education
Book of the week: Rachel O’Neill praises a sobering study of how we can combat the sheer amount of abuse female researchers experience in the field.
University racism study criticised for including anti-white harassment
The Guardian
Academics and student leaders accuse equalities watchdog of drawing a false equivalence.
Asian universities contend with their #MeToo moment
Times Higher Education
Social media posts by students at home and abroad push universities to address harassment and assault.
One in five female students on top US campuses sexually assaulted
Times Higher Education
Rate four times higher among women than men, and rising overall since initial 2015 survey.
Black and minority ethnic academics less likely to hold top jobs at UK universities
The Conversation
Universities remain dominated by those from white, middle-class backgrounds, writes Professor Kalwant Bhopal.
Award Nobels to teams, not individual ‘heroes’, say scientists
Times Higher Education
Scholars say group awards would place focus on discovery itself and help to mitigate bias.
Two-thirds of UK universities bring in sexual consent training – report
The Guardian
Universities UK welcomes findings but says more work needed to prevent racial harassment.
Topic choice harms black scientists seeking US research funding
Times Higher Education
Finding illuminates US health agency’s overall avoidance of human-centred research.