Practical Diversity and Inclusion

Category: Opinion

  • The three types of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

    Introduction No matter what you call it – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) – or event Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) – there are only three real types: Performative, Incremental, and Transformational Performative Performative DEI is when an individual or an organisation pretends to care about DEI but…

  • Racism impacts us every day

    Just had to head off a white man who was looking like he was going to bully some kids at the local park. He was using the excuse of the kids pulling dead branches off trees as an excuse. As I started walking slowly to him and as one of the kids started doing as…

  • Response to the PSF retrospective on the DjangoCon Africa grant process

    Background Some background first. In December 2023, an open letter was sent to the Python Software Foundation from “organisers in the pan-African Python community…  …to raise some concerns and frustrations”. There was a response to this in March 2024 from the Python Software Foundation: As part of a larger effort to ensure the PSF Grants…

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Image Resources

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Image Resources is a community to store key images on DEI that has alt-text to make it easier to share. It is proudly supported by Practical Diversity and Inclusion.

  • Short qualitative review of the report “Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations”

    This is a short qualitative review of the recommendations provided in the summary of the report “Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations“. While an excellent breakdown and having some good recommendations, the two biggest gaps that were identified was the lack of an intersectional approach and a lack of practical suggestions to…

  • Constant challenge to host accessible events

    I went to an event with my family to the cinemas and had a good time, but it wasn’t all good. This is an email I sent today.. Hi [redacted], I would like to say overall the family enjoyed [redacted] and it was the first time we could feel confident and comfortable to go to…

  • Open Source Software Communities and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    I recently was at a workshop that wanted to tackle diversity, equity and inclusion within an open source software community. One thing that stood out to me was this consistent, underlying assumption that the open source research software community was somehow different than other communities. If you know me, you know that I tried to…

  • Feedback from the eResearch NZ conference

    I recently gave the “Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Senior Leadership” workshop at eResearch NZ 2022 which I am glad to report I received the usual positive feedback around understanding intersectionality and the specific, concrete actions that people can undertake right now. You can read about it here.  

  • Response to a LinkedIn post from the Australian Federal Police about child sexual exploitation

    It is not a good situation for a national police force to ignore child sexual abuse for some people and worry about it for others. The response to the AFP LinkedIn post about child sexual exploitation: While [on] the subject of child sexual exploitation, could I please ask what happened to the investigation into the…

  • Feedback on UKRI EDI Strategy

    This is my feedback for the UKRI EDI Strategy. The UKRI has asked for the community to provide feedback on this EDI strategy and I thought I would provide my feedback based on the work available on this website, particularly the Senior Leadership workshop. This is the final draft UKRI EDI strategy review (version 17)…