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About The PlayFair Steps

The PlayFair Steps have developed a range of activities exploring how a person’s age, disability status, race and ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and parent status contribute towards their specific experiences in and perspectives of our workplace.

The Playfair Steps in Edinburgh in the snow

The Playfair Steps, Edinburgh

Using the local expertise of our academic colleagues and students, we seek to move beyond anecdote and create a more inclusive workplace with support from senior management for both top-down and bottom-up change.

PlayFair Steps is named after the Playfair Steps in Edinburgh, which connect the Old Town and the New Town, taking you from the old into the new. The steps were named after William Playfair, a Scottish engineer who founded many diagrams such as bar charts and pie charts, which are used extensively when doing equality and diversity work. The name was also chosen because of the wordplay with “playing fair”, and the idea that equality involves everyone.

 

By MJ Richardson, [CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/], via Wikimedia Commons

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