Please note that the deadline for nominations has been extended to 23:59 on Sunday 4 February 2024.
The role of the diversity and inclusion leader of the IMA Early Career Mathematicians committee is to ensure that the actions of the ECM committee are inline with the wider IMA diversity and inclusion activities. They are to suggest and promote events which will showcase more diversity within the ECM community. They are to suggest ways the ECM committee can better engage with, and encourage, ECMs from more diverse backgrounds to follow mathematics as a career, become involved with the IMA, and become involved with the ECM committee.
The diversity and inclusion leader liaises with the IMA’s diversity champion, ECM events leader, and ECM engagement leader to achieve these aims. They will also feedback directly to the IMA diversity champion thoughts that the ECM committee has to improve diversity and inclusion in the ECM population, and the IMA as a whole.
The ECM Committee provides a focus for the ideas and activities of early-career IMA members, in addition to engaging, empowering and mobilising this group in supporting the IMA’s charitable aims, including promoting mathematics. Most prominently, the committee collaborates with the wider IMA to organise and run many events for the early career mathematicians community, such as Virtual Maths Teas, idea exchanges on teaching in academia, hackathons and mock study groups, a seminar series and a webinar series. These provide a platform for attendees to meet and network with like-minded individuals.
At the end of the nomination period, the ECM committee will consider all the applications and appoint a new diversity and inclusion leader. The successful candidate will be in the post for two years. The ECM committee has monthly online meetings.
To put forward a self-nomination for the role of ECM Diversity Leader, please send a short biography¹ and a paragraph outlining why you feel you would be a good fit for this position. For reference, you may wish to look at the role outline and biographies of the current committee on the ECM Committee webpage. If you would like further information, perhaps about a particular role or the commitment required, please email ecm@ima.org.uk.
The deadline for nominations is 23:59 on Sunday 4 February 2024. All ECM members² who hold an IMA membership of any grade (e.g. Member, Associate Member, Student Member) are eligible, so submit your nominations ASAP!
Please send nominations to ecm@ima.org.uk.
We follow the IMA Diversity Statement, and endeavour to create a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere at the committee, with a diverse range of participants. Applicants from groups which are under-represented in the mathematical sciences are particularly encouraged.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Dr Maciej Matuszewski MIMA
Chair, Early-Career Mathematicians’ Committee
Notes
¹ By submitting a biography for consideration, you give your consent for it to be used in emails as part of the election process, and in print and on the website should you be successfully elected. Should you be elected a photograph (High-resolution preferred) will also be requested, and used in print and on the website.
² Early Career Mathematicians are defined as: Mathematicians within fifteen years of graduating from a university mathematics degree, or Members of the IMA who do not have a degree and are within fifteen years of joining the IMA.
