Ms Fiona Longmuir:

Regarding the Deputy's point about the disabled community, the purpose of science is to serve society and it should serve all of society. You cannot do good science by looking at a small pool of people. We have seen countless examples of this where you get a very small sample size that shares the same demographics and your findings cannot be applied to society at large. It is for everyone's benefit to be able to engage with science but it is for society's benefit to have everyone engaging with science. There are a number of under-represented groups within physics that probably map to being under-represented in other areas of STEM and other academic subjects. There are some overarching programmes such as the inclusion plans we spoke about that, hopefully, will improve things for everybody but different groups do face different barriers and it is important to consider that when we think about interventions that might be appropriate for them. It involves considering the specific needs of the communities you want to work as we are designing programmes.