Our proprietary Engineering Education HealthCheck tool enables you to develop a benchmark on where you are, target effort and demonstrate progress.
New conversations and perspectives on Inclusion and Diversity in STEM and Academic Institutions
A motivated and engaged workforce in higher and further education creates an energised and motivated student cohort. Our approach uses research-based tools for staff, faculty, researchers, and students across all levels including professional services, doctoral training centres, early career researchers, as well as research and leadership teams.
Changing the Diversity and Inclusion Conversation to:
Foster awareness and recognition of an inclusive academic and research community
Increase staff and student engagement
Catalyse new inclusion practices and behaviours in academic and research environments
Helping each person see what they could do, most easily, to make a difference to others
Improve student outcomes
Elevate awareness and foster inclusivity across all levels
Our workshops cover a wide range of topics, designed to meet your specific needs. Book a call to see how Katalytik can help your institution
Tackle common challenges faced by PhD students, such as:
- Loneliness and isolation
- Limited access to resources and equipment
- Inadequate support within research groups
- The pressure of being a minority
- Imposter syndrome
- Fear of failure
- Demanding lab work schedules and culture
- Perfectionism
Explore Our Engaging Workshops
Practical insights into Managing Your Supervisor, using CliftonStrengths. Dive into an interactive and enjoyable workshop that empowers early career researchers with:
- A deeper understanding of personal motivations and goals
- An expanded professional network
- Insights into diverse supervisory styles
- Strategies for overcoming potential frustrations
- With a fun team building activity using air-powered rocket cars.
Stop comparing yourself to others and discover what works best for you. A team focused workshop that grows respect and appreciation of others and what they do best, Using CliftonStrengths and frameworks to grow trust the session is tailored to your needs to:
- Grow respect among teams
- Strategies to facilitate wellbeing management
- Practice in giving and receiving feedback
- Deepening listeing skills among team members
- It can be hard to suddenly switch to teach in a more inclusive way. This session, again tailored to your discipline and audience, typically helps teaching and professional serivces staff to shift their perspectives on how to thread inclusion into their specialist topics and provide better support to diverse students. Includes:
- A card sorting activity to focus attention on what is currently being done, and what’s not
- Strategies to deepen cultural insights and learning
- Valuing neurodiverse needs and approaches
The Engineering Inclusion Forum is your internal community learning space addressing deeper insights into a series of tools and frameworks that helps you help your diverse students to establish the foundations of being a future inclusive leader:
- Critical thinking
- Cultures and cultural orientations
- People’s behaviours and perspectives
- New listening models and frameworks
Our Ethos
"If our engineering workforce is to have the capacity and confidence to grow a diverse and inclusive workforce then we need to embed the principles across education and training in our colleges and universities."
Katalytik director, Jan Peters has been driving change in this area for over 20 years. Innovating and driving new ways of thinking through action research. Since 2010 she has worked with UCL Engineering threading inclusion across the award-winning Integrated Engineering Programme.
She is a thought leader and change agent that continues to add to the strategies and actions to build an inclusive culture she first outlined in the Designing Inclusive Engineering Education Report. This has led to the Inclusive Engineering Manifesto and Katalytik’s signature RISE methodology.
