Fellowship Nominations Masterclass 2022

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Our Fellows are central to all that we do. Use these top tips when nominating candidates for Fellowship, so that we can continue to elect the brightest minds to the Academy.

We recently held a nominations masterclass with Academy Registrar Professor Dame Jessica Corner and key staff members for Fellows to learn what makes a successful nomination

Our 10-year strategy sets the ambition to evolve our Fellowship to be more reflective of the society we live in. Currently, Black, Asian and minority ethnic researchers make up just 8% of the Fellowship, while 21% of Fellows are women and 44% are based outside of London, Cambridge and Oxford. To improve this, the pool of candidates we elect from must grow to include a broader diversity of thought, expertise, and backgrounds.

Currently only Fellows can nominate candidates for election, and every Fellow can play a part in helping us fill that pool with excellent candidates. One way is to seek out diverse nominations from underrepresented groups or, make yourself known and visible within your institution as a potential Academy nominator, to allow potential candidates to come to you. Keep the doors of communication open so that people can approach you to discuss nominations. Connect with your Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) professionals in your organisation who can support you, and reach out to your internal networks for disability, race, gender, LGBTQ+. Be aware of some of the hesitations that diverse candidates may face and how different career experiences contribute to the excellence and leadership we seek. You may wish to use our EDI principles to guide you and our EDI Manager Vivien Kintu can help make connections.

For more information, visit: https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows

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