Minority scientists to mentor senior professors in equality drive

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#1 Submitted by PatSang on August 9, 2018 - 10:03am

Excellent idea from Heriot-Watt. Just a respectful point though: shouldn't the leader of the project at Heriot-Watt have been entitled "Professor" and not "Dr."?

Minority scientists to mentor senior professors in equality drive

‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader

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Minority scientists to mentor senior professors in equality drive

‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader

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Gender parity in science ‘generations away’

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University of Birmingham

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