We can try and manage our own careers, but it’s very different to trying to manage other people’s. - Patricia Kingori

I’m very conscious that diversity is sometimes skewed to a very narrow interpretation- it’s generally gender diversity, so racial, social class and other forms of diversity get put on the back foot. That is changing, but it’s changing very slowly.

And that’s the key thing, you can have a great institution with great policies but a line manager who absolutely doesn’t recognise that you are human, and that you are capable of having a family and doing your research well.

I think academia is just still very conservative in the way that people are hired and promoted.