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Impact of COVID - 19 on  STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) students in Scotland

Equate Scotland are collecting data to help inform and shape the service provision we provide to women studying STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges during Covid-19.

We would very much appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to complete our short questionnaire. We are interested to find out what student services that Equate Scotland currently provide or could provide that would help you during and post COVID-19.

The data we collect will be anonymised and will be used for Equate Scotland purposes only.

We also intend to repeat the same survey in March 2021 to gather further data on how you have been impacted after the job retention scheme ends in October 2020.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. What college or university do you attend?

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* 3. What is your email address? 

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* 4. What STEM discipline does your degree relate to?

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* 5. Ethnic background
Which of these ethnic backgrounds do you consider you belong to? (please select one option)

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* 6. Do you consider yourself to have a disability? 
The Equality Act 2010 defines a disabled person as someone who has a mental or physical impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Do you consider yourself to be disabled as set out under the Equality Act 2010?

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* 7. What year of study are you currently in? 

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* 8. If you had an internship relevant to your area of study arranged for summer 2020, please tell us what the status of your work placement is?

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* 9. Are you a member of the Equate Student Network?

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* 10. Are you involved in a Women STEM student society at your university or college?

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* 11. Would you like to access online training opportunities to help build employability skills and augment your studies during COVID - 19?

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* 12. Equate Scotland provides a range of opportunities for STEM students to enhance and develop new skills and learning.  From the list below, please tell us what type of opportunities you are most interested in (tick all that apply)?

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* 13. Equate is launching a new women only experiential learning programme to enable students to build hands-on practical skills in certain STEM sectors.  Please tell us which opportunities would be of most interest to you (tick all that apply):

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* 14. In terms of Equate student online development events, please tell us what time of day would best suit you to enable you to attend?

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* 15. To hear about Equate Scotland student development activities and opportunities, please tell us how you would prefer to be informed?  (Tick all that apply):

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* 16. In your own words, please tell us if there are any others ways you would like support from Equate to help augment your studies and develop your employability skills.

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* 17. Would you like to be signed up to the Equate Newsletter? If yes, we will add you do the Equate Scotland mailing list. 

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Please take a moment to read our data protection statement below. 

Data Protection Statement: 
Equate Scotland is hosted by Edinburgh Napier University (the University) and receives funding from the University, the Scottish Government and others. Equate Scotland will process the personal data you supply strictly in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new UK Data Protection Act 2018 and the University’s Code of Practice.

By providing your data you understand and agree that it will be used to inform you by email, phone, or letter about Equate services and to prepare anonymised statistics and reports for our funders. Further information on data protection is available at www.equatescotland.org.uk
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