Have a listen to one of our favourite Careers Podcasts of 2021: Science diversified – Black researchers’ perspectives
This episode looks at democratizing knowledge and tools for a more sustainable future that leaves no-one behind. Postdoc Injairu Kulundu-Bolus talks about her work in decolonial youth futures, the ability of music to connect us and the power of allowing young people to lead. And sustainable-development manager Hayden Dahmm discusses how he makes use of data, as well as the importance of learning from the perspectives of communities.
And that has its own set of challenges because there's so many eyes. You’re like the rubric or the curriculum that everyone will go by, in order to either acquire someone else or not. And so he would always teach me how things went together in a car. So I got a lot of physics exposure and engineering exposure. At the time, I didn't know that's what it was called. And then I also got a lot of plant biology or botany exposure.So my name is Professor Carla Faria. I work at University College London. I'm a full professor. My area of expertise is intense field laser metal interaction. So I work with matter in intense fields, very, very, very short timescales.
And another thing is that a lot of times a lot of the older generation that paved the way to be able to allow for me to have a PhD, were not recognized. And so that concept is important. And I think that's what we have to impart in trainees. Echoes that are of positive emotional, moving towards a goal very oriented task. Mentorship is a set of principles that align with who you are as an individual. And you're learning how to work with another individual to create a relationship that prospers that person towards their goals. And it meets their aspirations.
This person doesn't know these things, because they didn't learn this at home. So they need to have some help to be able to navigate this.But while this is not the case, people need a help to be able to compete in a level playing field, or at least in something that is not that unequal, as it is right now.
Once I left, say, the north of Brazil, I had to deal with racism as well, many times with sexism. But in a way, I always had very helpful allies and people who really helped me along the way.And I think that's one thing that a lot of people don't realize that mentorship has to be intentional. And it's a contractual agreement that, you know, that you'll agree to do these things that you know they're asking you to do.
At the moment I'm not involved in any diversity committee.Because I need to focus on my research. And I need to get my priorities right. So if you are doing diversity work, you're going to be asked to do the same thing over and over and over again. But I also think of it as sometimes a burden. So I'll start with the high note first. And the reason that I want to start with the high note is because you know I'm very proud of my Black skin and I never want to change who I am because I know where I come from. I know my family history. I'm proud of coming from individuals that may lemons that may not have known how to read and write like my grandfather.
And I think it's the most beautiful thing when you have scientists of all colours and all ideas working together for, you know, a common cause. At the beginning of this series, we said that it was time to step up to address these systemic issues. We said that transformation requires an openness to having difficult conversations and a healthy degree of critical self-reflection on the part of international organizations like ours.
I’m Marnie Chesterton and in this final episode, we’re focusing on addressing systemic racism in science and science systems. We’ll be hearing from people who’ve spent their careers working to transform research institutions, and from an early-career scientist, about her science and her call to action.The inclusion project has to be reinvented. And I do think we are in a historical moment where science, science collaboration and higher education has to be completely reinvented.
And I hear this from many young people. They may be the only or one of a few of the persons of colour or women within their classes. What does it mean to have intervention programmes for the majority? What does it mean if most students are not being served by the existing structures?Marnie Chesterton: 24.08
In 2020, Wits university had about 80% Black students. There has been a fundamental shift in the university system, and that's true of most universities in the country, The second thing that we were able to do is target academics in the system, young academics who had been appointed in earlier years. What had happened is they got all of the teaching loads, all of the administrative loads. And as a result, they never progressed up the hierarchy.
And so I work on a field of research called metamaterials, to try to design new techniques that would improve our detectors, and the detectors that I work on are gravitational wave detectors that can give us new signals in the universe. And so I think that that is a powerful thing that we as scientists really need to take more ownership over, in terms of really evaluating our own consciousness and how that's getting imprinted into what we write, what we say, and how that impacts society as a whole.The science community cannot ignore its impact on society as a whole, including when it comes to its record on diversity.I don't want to perpetuate an idea that diversity equals one subset of a group, right.
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