{"id":1871,"date":"2016-05-11T07:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T07:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T07:57:25","slug":"research-councils-uk-launch-action-plan-to-drive-cultural-change-in-equality-diversity-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2016\/05\/11\/research-councils-uk-launch-action-plan-to-drive-cultural-change-in-equality-diversity-and-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Councils UK launch action plan to drive cultural change in equality, diversity and inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2016\/05\/11\/research-councils-uk-launch-action-plan-to-drive-cultural-change-in-equality-diversity-and-inclusion\/ca7fe503-ded3-4e14-b694471246017843_newsteaser\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1872\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2016\/05\/CA7FE503-DED3-4E14-B694471246017843_newsteaser.jpg\" alt=\"CA7FE503-DED3-4E14-B694471246017843_newsteaser\" \/><\/a>Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today launched an action plan to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in research, recognising its leadership role in driving a change in culture.<\/p>\n<p>This follows RCUK\u2019s Statement of Expectations for Equality and Diversity, published in 2013, and outlines ambitions to lead by example in ensuring a diverse workforce; challenge bias and work towards fair and inclusive funding processes; and lead and support change in our research community. Work has already begun with the roll-out of unconscious bias training for peer reviewers and funding decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/news\/browse\/research-councils-uk-launch-action-plan-to-drive-cultural-change-in-equality-diversity-and-inclusion\/\">MRC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today launched an action plan to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in research, recognising its leadership role in driving a change in culture. This follows RCUK\u2019s Statement of Expectations for Equality and Diversity, published in 2013, and outlines ambitions to lead by example in ensuring a diverse workforce; challenge bias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}