The Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) amongst our membership and award recipients. To help us monitor our progress, we ask for your cooperation in answering the questions below. These questions were chosen based on best practices for EDI monitoring including using the guidance from Advance HE. This form is voluntary. If you prefer not to answer a specific question, you can also choose the “prefer not to say” answer option. However, the more information you can give us, the better we will be able to determine whether we are meeting our EDI standards.
Your answers will be held confidentially by the EPS Administrator and separately from any application you make for membership, funding, or prizes. The EPS committee members cannot link your responses to your identity. Your responses will be used for monitoring purposes only and will not be accessible to the committee during any selection process. The EPS Administrator, who is not involved in committee decision-making or selection processes, will be able to temporarily link your EDI Monitoring Form responses to your identity when you make an application for funding / prizes. This will only be done temporarily and in order to prepare anonymised data about the characteristics of our membership and award recipients. The committee’s EDI Representative will then use those data to prepare progress reports for the committee. These processes will be monitored and reviewed annually by the committee’s Data Protection Officer.
The data will be saved using services and IT provision of the EPS host organisation (currently University of Kent). Raw data will not be transferred outside UK university academic services and raw data will not be shared with other organisations beyond the EPS. Aggregated, anonymised data might be shared as part of reports, which will initially be shared only within the EPS committee but might be shared more widely (e.g., with EPS members) where relevant.
We will hold these data indefinitely for ongoing monitoring purposes unless you ask us to delete them. Under the UK GDPR, you have a right of access to your data, a right to rectification, erasure, restriction, portability (in certain circumstances), and objection. If you need to update your data, wish for us to delete it, or have questions about this form, please contact the EPS administrator: expsychsoc@kent.ac.uk.