Improving Diversity in STEM
Online Event 13 October 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Learning Outcomes
- Develop strategies to embed diversity and inclusivity into STEM education, recruitment, retention and career progression
- Understand science engagement and inequity in the UK in order to target engagement activities and identify areas of potential
- Improve science education in primary and secondary schools to boost the government’s levelling up agenda
- Support underrepresented students to apply to study STEM subjects at top tier universities
- Challenge stereotypes and raise aspirations in STEM for underrepresented groups
- Identify and tackle regional variations in STEM provision and overcome place-based barriers to skills provision and access to STEM careers
- Promote career prospects and progression for black individuals across STEM