Read on Twitter
So this is a most curious thread from @NERCscience ... and it has some significant issues.
1/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310941996903813120
1/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310941996903813120
The evidence on this statement is not there - there is substantive historical data that indicates that EDI is broken with @NERCscience and broadly within @UKRI_News 2/
(receipts in next tweet) https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310941998216630273
(receipts in next tweet) https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310941998216630273
Lots of people know of the diversity issue within @nercscience awards, it's well recorded and has been brought up in LOTS of meetings - here's is one receipt 3/ https://twitter.com/AnsonMackay/status/1137011123356614656?s=20
Here is another receipt - note I am purposely pointing out the ethnicity issue, which hasn't been addressed in the recent outcry or audit of data - as the gender issue was extremely plain to see 4/ https://twitter.com/tanvir_h/status/1191467048636956674
The gender equity of @NERCscience awards is apparently "one of the better indicators" in the EDI space.
Remember if we want equity/social justice, gender is one dimension & we also have to consider people who belong to more than one marginalized group 5/ https://twitter.com/ashish_a_malik/status/1308025919395835907
Remember if we want equity/social justice, gender is one dimension & we also have to consider people who belong to more than one marginalized group 5/ https://twitter.com/ashish_a_malik/status/1308025919395835907
Now there are lots of ways that this data can be sliced, and lots of inputs in the EDI story - but we can see that are systematic, and historical, imbalances at play, and these are deeply rooted - yet @NERCscience want to talk to their existing base 
6/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310942000640819200
6/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310942000640819200
The language that @NERCscience use here also highlights that @UKRI_News remains siloed - NERC is asking people in NERC-remits on fixing the EDI issue - where only the people who have survived & thrived (likley) have a loud enough voice 7/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310942001903407107
Now the reviews are likely welcome - and getting community buy in is going to be critical -
BUT reviews, convening discussions, meetings and more -
THESE DO NOT FIX THE PROBLEM - THEY ARE NOT ACTIONS. 8/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310942003178475522
BUT reviews, convening discussions, meetings and more -
THESE DO NOT FIX THE PROBLEM - THEY ARE NOT ACTIONS. 8/ https://twitter.com/NERCscience/status/1310942003178475522
Trust me - my DMs & emails are filled with people who engage with EDI issues well, and know lots of the problems, and have known of these for an age.
Yet - the system is set up such that continual harm to @UKRI_News communities happens, as processes continue to exclude folks. 9/
Yet - the system is set up such that continual harm to @UKRI_News communities happens, as processes continue to exclude folks. 9/
I mean it took a week for a *viral tweet* to circulate before @NERCscience engaged on this topic - via their carefully worded release - and the thread here doesn't imply how interested stake holders beyond the "chosen few" will really have a voice 10/ https://twitter.com/hl_ford/status/1310559023679385602
Now I like the letter that @NERCscience has written - it shows some progress in language and structure, but it also ignores ethnicity and (almost) all the other dimensions of identity - and from above - this has been well known for an age 11/ https://twitter.com/BMatB/status/1310843621491576833
What could @NERCscience do better?
There are other funding schemes that achieve better equality outcomes - talk to them.
Get an EDI person/team in place who are empowered to enact change and take charge.
Getting EDI right is core business for long term health of research. 12/12
There are other funding schemes that achieve better equality outcomes - talk to them.
Get an EDI person/team in place who are empowered to enact change and take charge.
Getting EDI right is core business for long term health of research. 12/12
p.s. if some of the folks overlap strongly with many of the DTP ppl I have seen information from via the FOIs I have - some of this will result in awesome change, but there is a massive uphill struggle with many other folk who simply don't understand there is a problem. 
13/12
13/12
