Sep 01 2024 56 mins 1
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Terms such as inclusion, diversity, equity, and equality, have long featured in discussions relating to engineering education, and are often used interchangeably. Their meaning both evolve over time and vary significantly across context. Such changes and variation have implications for the areas in which efforts towards DEI, are focused, as well as to learn from good practice and monitor progress.
In this episode we speak to Dr. Inês Direito, an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, University of Aveiro (Portugal) and Dr Jan Van Maele, Professor in Language and Communication at the Faculty of Engineering Technology at KU Leuven (Flanders, Belgium). Our two guests bring together their complimentary expertise (Inês in Psychology and in researching student experience and mental health, and Jan in teaching languages in a context in which language policies have created obstacles to creating cultural diversity) to discuss their work exploring how the engineering education community believe DEI related terms are understood and implemented in their own institution and in other contexts around the globe.
Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Dr. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn DEI in the context of Engineering Education worldwide.
shownotes:
Timestamps
0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode
0.35 Podcast Intro
0.54 Experiences in DEI from Natalie and Neil
3.09 Inês' Background
7.35 Jan's Background
13.20 The start of a collaboration
17.02 Changes in the SIG and defining key terms
21.09 The changing nature of DEI work
24.37 The SEFI 2023 DEI SIG workshop
27.00 Homero Murzi (North-American and a Latin-American perspective)
34.14 Karin Wolff, President of SASEE (South African perspective)
44.47 Xinrui XU (Chinese perspective)
49.14 Final advice
51.18 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil
Email Jan ([email protected]) and Inês ([email protected]) to share your perspectives as part of this project.
Further Reading
To watch the video from which these clips were taken, visit:
https://play.chalmers.se/media/DEI_Video_ver_3/0_2p6ns0g5
For the paper about the SEFI 2023 workshop mentioned see:
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=sefi2023_wkshp
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