Responding to Discrimination: Student Active Bystander Training

This workshop is for students studying science, engineering, mathematics, technology and the built environment subjects at Scottish universities or colleges.
Taking place in the Mandela Auditorium at the Strathclyde Student Union, this interactive workshop will provide skills and strategies for how participants should respond to witnessing discrimination within their universities or careers, with a focus on STEM fields.

Through a presentation and group activities, attendees will learn how to define unacceptable behaviours such as discrimination and microaggressions and learn about tools and strategies to shift cultural norms through active bystander intervention.

This interactive workshop will help you to:

• Define unacceptable behaviours such as discrimination, harassment and microaggressions;
• Recognise situations that warrant active bystander intervention in STEM contexts;
• Understand the stages of the intervention process and common barriers to intervening to devise strategies to overcome them;
• Demonstrate effective communication strategies for direct and indirect intervention as an active bystander.

Host or Publisher Equate Scotland