We have been leading a campaign against accent bias and linguistic discrimination at UoE since January 2022.
In that time, we have achieved the following:
- Delivered accent bias training to over 800 members of staff, across 2 colleges.
- Accent bias and linguistic discrimination is now embedded in the EDI plan of CAHSS.
- Accent bias is now acknowledged as an access barrier in our Widening Participation strategy.
- The 93% Club’s State School Proud campaign has generated over 1 million views.
- A new society, SSMS, has formed to represent the voices of Scottish students.
- Two sell-out (capacity of 250 and 150) events on accent bias at an elite university.
- Over 60 news media articles on the topic/our activities.
- A co-authored journal article and a book chapter (both under review)
