⚠️ Simple accountability mechanisms can improve recruitment outcomes, but there is no silver bullet to tackling recruitment discrimination. Improving the quality and granularity of this recruitment data—such as disaggregating data by ethnicity—is also essential to the responsible use of AI.

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📉 Black and Minority Ethnic candidates scored lower in interviews, with Black and Minority Ethnic women twice as likely to receive negative assessments compared to white women.

💬 There were thematic differences in candidate based on the candidate and hiring managers’ ethnicity and gender.

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🔎 What did we find?

📝 Asking hiring managers to write a letter to the CEO explaining their recruitment decisions increased the odds of Black and Minority Ethnic candidates being appointed to a senior role by 1.7 times.

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#academicsky #PhDsky #medsky

Thank you so much! 😊

Thanks so much, and lovely to be connected! Please do let me know your thoughts on the paper when you get around to it ☺️

Thank you so much Rebecca! Would love to hear your thoughts on it :)

Absolutely! Good health is not just about the absence of safety incidents or illness, and this message came out very strongly in our study.

3️⃣ If we are to reduce ethnic inequities in maternity care, we need to use an integrated, #community-centred approach that goes beyond hospital settings.

We had 50+ workshop attendees from the NHS, local authorities, and communities. Meaningful change is built on collaboration and partnerships.

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2️⃣ The community workshops were led by lived experience and community organising experts, which was essential in building trust and buy-in of the overall process. #coproduction

This has led to some of the mothers taking forward the ideas themselves, such as peer support groups for black fathers.

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Our key findings:

1️⃣ While all groups prioritised staff education on culturally competent care, only community members highlighted the need for advocacy and mental health support.

Maternity hospital staff mostly prioritised educational materials (e.g. leaflets and videos) for families.

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💡 What did we find?

Community members & staff both think staff education on unconscious bias and cultural competence is important, but community members felt we needed to improve mental health support and access to community advocacy in maternity care - this was not prioritised by staff.

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