{"id":1034,"date":"2020-09-02T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/bio-equalityanddiversity\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:47:45","slug":"nature-article-on-racism-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2020\/09\/02\/nature-article-on-racism-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature article on racism in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Laland, the School of Biology ED&amp;I vice-chair, has written an article entitled \u201cRacism in Academia, and why the \u2018little things\u2019 matter, which was published as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02471-6\">Nature article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin draws on his own experiences to highlight that it is not just the overt acts of racism that should be challenged \u2013 but also the subtle biases and structural inequalities.\u00a0 He provides many suggestions on ways to reduce racism in academia via increased awareness, support, opportunities, and by making role models visible.\u00a0 A full list of these suggestions is available <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nature.com\/3hftk1d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Kevin!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Laland, the School of Biology ED&amp;I vice-chair, has written an article entitled \u201cRacism in Academia, and why the \u2018little things\u2019 matter, which was published as a Nature article. Kevin draws on his own experiences to highlight that it is not just the overt acts of racism that should be challenged \u2013 but also the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edi-activities-with-external-impact","category-equality-diversity-and-inclusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/kevin-lala.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}