Monday 19th of June

1.30pm - 3pm

Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri
EDI Lead, SGSAH and Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of St Andrews

Anindya.raychaudhuri@glasgow.ac.uk

@DrAnindyaR

EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) has become increasingly prominent in academic and non-academic institutions over the last few years. For understandable reasons, the focus here has been on creating spaces and systems that will allow everyone to fulfil their full potential. There is an increasing understanding that traditional ways of measuring merit and future potential bring with them a range of conscious, unconscious and systemic biases that prejudice multiple marginalised and minoritized groups. Consequently, much important work has been done on trying to find alternative and fairer ways of judging potential and merit.

In this interactive session, we will go back to basics and try to explore what we mean by the terms ‘merit’ and ‘potential’, and think about how helpful they really are. Given how central they are to so much of academia, are we sure these concepts are fit for purpose? Can we imagine a world where merit and potential are not something to be judged, and used to rank us against each other? What would such a world look like?

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First published: 11 May 2023