What was nice to see was credit given to a female archaeologist in the 1930s for discovering the Roman baths on this site. Kathleen Kenyon.

If you’re in the Scottish central belt, there’s still time to join us on 14th Nov, learn about periods at work, and tap into your creative side.
The venue is right beside Wester Hailes station

eventbrite.co.uk/e/period-talk-periods-power-work-tickets-1616538112009?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

We’re holding two workshops at different times- a Thursday morning and the second one on Friday 14th Nov 5-7pm.
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social is funded by AHRC and @britishacademy.bsky.social both funders for EDICa.
It aims to bring #humanities to the public.

The workshop brings our research on #MenstrualHealth in the workplace to a wider audience while attendees they to create zine pages for a collective magazine we will have printed and PDF’d to share.

“We’re always very caught up in academic terminology and lingo. It’s nice to have another means for us to refer back to and to make our research more accessible beyond the bounds of academia. In this case, Clare is asking questions and asking us to say it again in ‘English’, go slower.” -Dr Cocco //

"Thus, some of the well-documented ‘productivity gap’ may not be a gap in the contribution of women to science at all, but rather a gap in how much their contributions are recognized."
fin 🧵

"The key finding of this work is that, regardless of the measure of scientific credit, and despite efforts to standardize credit, women are much less likely than men to be credited with authorship."
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“My career would've been quite different with these 2 Nature papers” (woman)
“Being left off papers for which I was 1 of the 2 main leads has greatly damaged my career as a researcher and my chance to get promotion, jobs, and grant funding. I am still an academic but in a teaching role” (woman); 🧵

"lack of clarity with respect to authorship rules, [...] reinforces organizational structure. Rules are often determined by senior researchers (who are disproportionately men), and are often governed by personal relationships and idiosyncratic preferences, which reportedly led to disagreements."🧵

Indeed! And then send it to us to share!

Co-production
- Equitable partnership of stakeholders - e.g. the public
- Shared power and responsibility, mutual learning, genuine inclusion especially of marginalised groups.

View the slides and watch the seminar here:
edicaucus.ac.uk/research-met...
#AcademicSky #Neurodiversity #EDI #DEI

Heriot-Watt University is just off the Edinburgh bypass - which is a ring road.

"It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."