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摘要

The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM, better known as TIGER in STEMM (or simply TIGERS), is a diverse group of passionate individuals working together to improve the EDI - equality, diversity and inclusivity - space within UK higher education.TIGERS initially formed in 2018 as a group of 50 people, working via Twitter to put together a proposal for #MySciencelnquiry, a government initiative in the House of Commons via its Science & Technology Select Committee, led at the time by Sir Norman Lamb MP. The brief proposal was signed by more than 200 individuals working across higher education in the UK. Prof Rachel Oliver (University of Cambridge) pitched our proposal, representing the newly-formed TIGERS in the House of Commons by invitation of the Select Committee. Our inquiry, "Impact of science funding policy on equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility", was one of four taken forward, with Sir Norman Lamb writing to the Chair of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Professor Sir Mark Walport, to request data regarding research funding and equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.