Research project Inclusion for Innovation: Adressing inequalities in STEM

The underrepresentation of certain groups in higher education, particularly among STEM academics and students , leads to lack of diversity. This reduces the resilience of the STEM sector and limits the ability of reliant industries to innovate and to respond to global challenges.

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STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This is a joint project between Stockholm University, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) and The University of Manchester. It brings together innovation and higher education inclusion to audit the performance and scope the opportunities for our universities in partnership with our city-regions to collaborate to address the STEM talent pipeline locally, enabling us to recruit and retain more diverse innovators to be supported into STEM degree programmes and then into the local STEM workforce.

Coordinated by educationalists involved in widening Higher Education access, this project will gather academics and professional staff from STEM and humanities and social sciences at our institutions and local stakeholders to strengthen links with local leaders, organisations and groups, schools aswell as employers and businesses.

The project’s primary impact will be to establish a framework and toolkit to support recruiting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent in STEM to contribute to a stronger, more innovative, city region.