An audit for action

Abstract

Rebecca Colquhoun and Ben Fernando discuss their student-led audit of ethnic minorities and the geosciences

Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable

“…While ongoing, long-term, and properly funded structural change is needed in the discipline as a whole, a key barrier to progress is the disproportionately low number of students from ethnic minority backgrounds transitioning to postgraduate (PG) research 6,7 . Efforts to address this disparity must account for its causes, which involve a complex interplay of structural and cultural factors [9][10][11] . A further complication is that the students most impacted by biased recruitment procedures often do not continue in academia 8 .…”