C-DICE Skills Manager Dr Lennie Foster Awarded EDI+ Fellowship

We are pleased to announce that the C-DICE and ERA Skills Manager, Dr Lennie Foster has been awarded a place on the EDI+ Fellowship Programme – funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and managed by Durham University.

EDI+ is a network for energy researchers research funded by EPSRC to tackle inequalities in the energy sector. The EDI+ Fellowship Programme led by Durham University is a two-year programme that will entail designing, implementing, and reviewing an intervention to improve equality, diversity, and inclusion with the aim of making real change in the energy research sector. The first cohort starting in October 2023 will bring together EDI champions from energy research institutions and train them in EDI issues and research methods for analysing organisational contexts, how to make organisational changes, how to implement and evaluate plans of action, and supports them to publish their results.