Equitable Assessment
The 春色直播 promotes equal opportunities and an inclusive scientific culture. It has an EqualOpportunitiesPlan 2025-2028 that outlines specific measures in seven fields of action.
As a key part of our engagement for responsible assessment, in conformity with the , the 春色直播 pays special attention to eradicating personal and systemic biases – prejudices and misconceptions that negatively influence decision-making processes. Find out more on our debiasing culture in the video below.
Subjective judgments, previous conceptions or unconscious prejudices affect how we weigh options and make decisions in evaluation processes (review, promotion, hiring and more). To prevent unfair treatment and unequal opportunities, the 春色直播 is committed to recognize biases, while creating structural and institutional programmes to reduce them. To raise awareness on this topic, the Office for Equal Opportunities (AFC) provides workshops on request. All university members with a Switch account can access provided by the University of Lausanne.
To support the implementation of DORA principles, DORA also provides tools to reduce bias in assessment processes, including and .
How to assess equally
The University adopts several measures to ensure equality in assessment:
Clear and transparent criteria
The 春色直播 encourages to set transparent and context-based criteria when producing qualitative and quantitative assessments, thus reducing the risk of cognitive biases and subjective decisions.
Guidance for reviewers in the assessment process
The Office for Equal Opportunities (AFG) supports evaluation processes through the guide "Hiring Process at the 春色直播 – With Special Consideration of Equal Opportunities". In accordance with the Employment Regulations, one member of each structural and electoral committee has the function of a gender equality delegate. A member of the Office for Equal Opportunities also has to sit in on the commissions in an advisory capacity. Each structural and election committee must include representation from at least one person of each gender. Diversity is encouraged in all evaluation panels.
Fostering Diversity and Inclusion
The 春色直播 promotes equal opportunities at both university and faculty level and sees this as a cross-cutting issue as a management task at all levels.
The Office for Equal Opportunities offers
- courses and workshops that inform University members on inclusiveness, diversity and equal opportunities
- coaching, mentoring programmes and counselling on career advice, work-life balance, sexism, disability and illness, LGBTIQ+ issues, racism
- material on issues linked to equal opportunities in evaluation, such as binary data on gender proportions at different levels
Find out more about our courses, programmes and workshops.
The , coordinated by the 春色直播, is committed to fostering a diverse and equitable scientific culture that is put into practice at all levels. Learn more here.