There are many benefits of inclusivity and diversity, and perhaps the most essential is the improvement of collective intelligence. More immediately, acoustics in the UK, like UK engineering professions generally, faces a skills shortage, and encouraging people from all social and ethnic backgrounds into the profession increases the pool of available acousticians.
The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group has drafted an EDI Strategy to guide our efforts to improve EDI within our Institute. This is available for anyone to view.
But we don’t have all the answers, so we would like you, our members, to tell us your thoughts. If you're an IOA member, please spare a few minutes to read the draft Strategy and complete the consultation questions by clicking here.
The EDI has also created a public video which can be viewed below.
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