Difference between revisions of "Team:Exeter/Human Practices"

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  <a href=’#’>here</a>. The largest change to our game came after Mrs Andrew’s  
 
  <a href=’#’>here</a>. The largest change to our game came after Mrs Andrew’s  
 
  asked if she could keep a copy of the game herself. We knew that we could not
 
  asked if she could keep a copy of the game herself. We knew that we could not
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  afford to give board games out to everyone, so we came up with a new way to  
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  afford to give board games out too everyone, so we came up with a new way to  
 
  distribute our game at no cost. Our board game BioMech is now online to download  
 
  distribute our game at no cost. Our board game BioMech is now online to download  
 
  for free on our wiki <a href=’#’>here</a>, with full printing instructions.
 
  for free on our wiki <a href=’#’>here</a>, with full printing instructions.
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to listen to on Youtube and SoundCloud for free for everyone. </p>
 
to listen to on Youtube and SoundCloud for free for everyone. </p>
 
 
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<h4>Interviewing other science figures</h4>
 
 
 
 
<h4>Diversity</h4>
 
<h4>Diversity</h4>
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<h6>Background</h6>
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<p id="pp">
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Background:
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The fundamental reason for targeting equality
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and diversity within science, is that synthetic
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biology has the chance to be hierarchically and
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systematically equal from the beginning. If those
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working in the field can encourage the importance
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of diversity to the younger generations, then when
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synthetic biology becomes a well established and publicly
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recognised field of science, it has the possibility of being
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recognised for its progressive nature towards a gender, racial
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and socio-economical equality.</p>
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<p id="pp">Using statistics gained from the Equality and Diversity
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office at the University of Exeter, and further statistics
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on gender inequality within the College of Life and Environmental
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Sciences (CLES) and the College of Engineering Mathematics and
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Physical Sciences (CEMPS) provided by Athena Swan, we want
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to highlight the problem with inequality and diversity to a wider audience.
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</p>
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<h6>How we will achieve this</h6>
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<p id="pp">We aim to achieve this by focusing on three distinct areas:</p>
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<ol id="pp">
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<li>Firstly, the initial reaction of students and academics to the
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concept of sexism and diversity within science. With this we hope
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to gauge whether sexism in science is a widely recognised across
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the UK in higher education or if not enough is being done to publicise
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the problem. We also want to understand how the definition of diversity
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changes across the world.</li>
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<li>Secondly, the work that is being done by academics at the University
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of Exeter to both publicise and change the problem of inequality within
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science. We want to use the statistics provided by the University Equality,
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Diversity and Inclusivity group and the Athena Swan group to understand how
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equality and diversity within science has changed over time. Furthermore we
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want to begin the discussion of what more can be done.</li>
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<li>Thirdly, the role that students can have in promoted equality and
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diversity within various fields. We want to speak to student leaders
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about how they view the situation and what they think can be done to
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promote not just gender diversity but also diversity in terms of
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religion, ethnicity, disability and socio-economic background.</li></ol>
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</p>
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<h4>Westminister iGEM UK meet-up 2016</h4>
 
<h4>Westminister iGEM UK meet-up 2016</h4>
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<p id="pp">In August we travelled to Westminster for the
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iGEM UK annual meet-up, an opportunity to meet other UK teams,
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discuss our ideas and projects and have a chance to practise our
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presentation in front of students and academics. Although our
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presentation was well received we were also given very important
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feedback, such as why we hadn’t incorporated biosafety into our
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game and our module. Since then we have rectified these issues.</p>
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<p id="pp"> Furthermore, we were given talks about
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the fundamentals of synthetic biology and also about
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conducting reliable surveys for our outreach.
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We also had the chance to set up a collaboration with Glasgow,
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and help out Warwick by directing them to schools and teams that
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they could collaborate with or mentor. </p>
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<h4>Science fairs and work experience students</h4>
 
<h4>Science fairs and work experience students</h4>

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