Equality & Diversity
Activities:
Soapbox Science
Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do. This year there are 30 events planned across 15 different countries. The events happen in public areas transforming these areas into an arena for public learning and scientific debate. If you're affiliated with the University of York and want to get involved, apply to be a speaker or a volunteer, or contact soapbox-science-group@york.ac.uk.
Working for Diversity
This is a program within the Psychology Department with the main aim of reaching all students, especially the ones that might not have had access to opportunities for academic mentoring. It provides the resources, information or contact with academic mentor as well as alumni tailored to the needs of each individual student who decided they would like to try out the scheme. If you're affiliated with the University of York and want to get involved, sign up to mentor a student. Email: working-for-diversity-group@york.ac.uk.
Research Projects
- Research project: Role of community and sense of belonging for disabled students at uni
- Research Project: How do self-efficacy and self-assurance impact achievement and wellbeing in ethnic-minority university students?
- Research Project: Moving on up: Exploring the effect of classist exclusionary behaviours on male and female working-class postgraduate students
Champion bio:
Dr Karla K. Evans is an Associate Professor and head of the Complex Cognitive Processing Lab at the Psychology Department, University of York. UK. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and performed postdoctoral research at MIT, Harvard Medical School & BWH in the US. Using a variety of techniques her work focuses on understanding how perceptual information within and across senses and memory gets integrated into a unified complex percept of the world and is applied to real world tasks. Of a specific interest in the last 12 years is the understanding of visual expertise in medical image perception.
