The Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology has launched a campaign to recruit 3 new members to the Council. The campaign is open for applications until Monday 20th June.

Via the Protect Pure Maths Campaign, LMS President Ulrike Tillmann will be speaking at the Science and Technology Select Committee oral evidence session on Diversity in STEM today at 11am. She will address the chronic underrepresentation of women at every level of mathematics education, and talk about the challenges in tackling misconceptions of mathematics.

The REF 2021 results have been announced and can be found here. The Society is delighted to see the outstanding quality of UK mathematical sciences research reflected in these results, which recognise work from institutions of all sizes and from all across the UK.

Last updated 12/5/22

The LMS, Royal Statistical Society, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and Edinburgh Mathematical Society have written to the chief executive of UKRI to urge that the organisation does more to meet its equality, diversity and inclusion objectives.

In the letter to Dame Ottoline Leyser, Committee for Women in Diversity Chair Professor Sara Lombardo, along with her co-signatories, point out that the draft UKRI EDI strategy is currently lacking in detail on how it will reach its EDI objectives. It gives ten recommended actions.