EDICa’s Chiara Cocco is in Liverpool today for the Menstruation Research Network conference.

Listen to EDICa's postdoc Chiara Cocco from a clip from the podcast, talking about trying to improve menstrual health support in research & innovation.

Listen to this weeks episode to hear Chiara Cocco (she/her) talk about the journey of period policies in research and innovation!

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THIS IS NOT JUST A WOMEN’S ISSUE!
Men. Be it in heterosexual relationships, same sex or single, they also want to be parents & are faced with the same issues and complex emotions like anyone else. They are affected by infertility, by loss and they too can get sad AND angry.

A new article in Nature Medicine argues that diversity in clinical trials must be accompanied by justice and equity in order to boost population health.

These must include benefits for underrepresented participants and other measures. 👇

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Listen to EDICa's lead postdoc on our menstrual health research, Chiara Cocco, talking about our study and the reasoning behind it.
Thanks to periodically_ox and their funders for enabling Chiara to travel down to Oxford and record this session.

🔔Ensuring diversity in clinical trials isn't enough. Find out more in this article on why justice and equity are essential.⬇️
nature.com/articles/s4159…
#clincalTrials

Hear it here first! The Academy's latest evidence for EDI in business success will be revealed with a panel discussion and Q&A with experts and industry leaders, in celebration of our latest D&I report.

To attend, please register here: raeng.org.uk/events/2024/ju… #EngDiversity

Now that a general election has been called, I thought it was worth pre-emptively laying to rest some rumours that sometimes circulate about Economic and Social Research Council rules on what ESRC-funded researchers supposedly are and aren't allowed to say during the ‘pre-election period’. (1)

We’re thrilled to announce the 2024 recipients of our new Caregiver Travel Grant! 🎉 Ten grants were awarded to outstanding #MothersInSTEMM , to attend conferences while managing caregiving duties. Congratulations! Read about the recipients 👉 shorturl.at/HhBxd
#WomenInSTEM

Tomorrow! Join the discussion with our 6 excellent panellists.
Recording will be published on our website.

The @science_council has published the Science Workforce Skills Report. 👩‍🔬

The report covers a variety of STEM workforce topics, including AI, cross-sector mobility, and more. The diversity of the STEM workforce is considered throughout.

sciencecouncil.org/blog/2024/04/0…