{"id":945,"date":"2018-07-03T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=945"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:52:53","slug":"introduction-to-unconscious-bias-weds-7th-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2018\/07\/03\/introduction-to-unconscious-bias-weds-7th-november-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Unconscious Bias &#8211; Weds 7th November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our\u00a0commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity, the School of Engineering and Digital Arts is delighted to offer a workshop entitled:\u00a0<strong>An Introduction to Unconscious Bias<\/strong>\u00a0which will take place on Wednesday 7th November from 1 &#8211; 2 pm in Jennison Lecture Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The key learning objectives are outlined below:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Develop self awareness of the unconscious mind<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Learn about different types of bias and how it is a form of natural mental shortcut which needs to be managed<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Experiment on how bias occurs in day to day decision-making in the workplace: recruiting and hiring, team dynamics and career development<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Receive action-orientated strategies they can use to remove bias from decisions<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Be empowered to raise awareness of unconscious bias in teams and wider workplace and its potential impact<\/p>\n<p>The event is strictly open to students and staff in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts only and will be delivered by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/equalengineers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Equal Engineers Ltd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our\u00a0commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity, the School of Engineering and Digital Arts is delighted to offer a workshop entitled:\u00a0An Introduction to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2018\/07\/03\/introduction-to-unconscious-bias-weds-7th-november-2018\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[197055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}