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Discover how to identify potential gender biases in the data used within your own organisation. Gain industry-ready skills, learn from leading experts, and earn a shareable digital certificate.
Discover how to identify potential gender biases in the data used within your own organisation.
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Data is a crucial tool in today's workplaces - but it can often be skewed in ways that reinforce gender biases.
This micro-credential is ideal for professionals from any sector seeking the tools to understand how data can hold inherent bias, and how this impacts organisational decision-making.
Drawing on social science perspectives, you'll explore the intrinsic gender inequalities that exist within our broader society. Consider how these are reflected in AI and other technologies.
Recognise data's value in the workplace, and consider how it can be applied to drive effective decision making. Examine how gender bias and discrimination can be embedded within data and tech used by organisations, and explore the unintended impacts this may have.
Understand how gender bias can be reinforced during data collection, analysis and interpretation. Gain a critical framework to assess the quality of data and its sources, to identify potential bias.
Putting your new knowledge into practice, you'll examine how data is used in your own organisation. You'll demonstrate how to identify the potential bias that exists within it, and consider how to make more gender-inclusive data-driven decisions.
This course runs over six weeks.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
Assessment:
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Gender Bias and Discrimination in Data micro-credential. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
This micro-credential can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Future of Women at Work series to deepen your knowledge and skills.
It also offers a pathway - otherwise known as advanced standing - into the Master of Social Policy. To use it this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in the Future of Women at Work series, then apply for credit towards the masters.
The series includes:
This course features both guided and self-directed learning, to maximise your learning outcomes. Within our innovative online environment, you'll engage with other industry professionals and receive valuable guidance and feedback from our course facilitators. You'll take part in interactive webinars and digital workshops, and be guided towards useful readings, case studies and podcasts.
There is no set expiry date.
This micro-credential can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Future of Women at Work series to deepen your knowledge and skills. It also offers a pathway - otherwise known as advanced standing - into the Master of Social Policy. To use it this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in the Future of Women at Work series, then apply for credit towards the masters.