Description

This 1 ½ hour session will look at the impact of unconscious bias on our key people decisions:recruiting, team formation, performance management and coaching. The data from testing of university staff, using a version of the implicit association tests,will be presented for comparison with other sectors (e.g. policing, law,engineering). The session will conclude with some research-led tips on mitigating unconscious bias.

We are also offering all attendees the opportunity to undergo bias testing using a version of the Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT) called Bias Test.  We are offering a version which looks at our gender-researcher preferences.

Bias Test is an online test of your unintended people preferences (biases). It can create some anxiety when you first experience Bias Test, as we are all a bit apprehensive about learning where our biases may lie. This insight is a great help in enabling us to control how our biases might be affecting our decisions and behaviour. The test taps into the unconscious neural associations you may have developed between particular social groups and particular good or bad ideas.Research suggests that these associations affect the decision we make and how we behave. Everybody has these neural connections and everyone has these biases.

Delegates undergoing bias testing will get a personal and confidential feedback report by email at the conclusion of the workshop.

Presenter

Dr Pete Jones is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist who specialises in the measurement of unconscious bias in support of his training, consultancy and research around the subject.  He is one of the Runnymede 360 emerging leaders in race equality, and widely regarded as the UK’s leading practitioner experts in unconscious bias.  Amongst his clients are many UK regulators,Russell Group universities and a number of global banks, law firms, IT and engineering companies.

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