Understanding Unconscious Bias

Understanding Unconscious Bias is an ‘expected learning’.

This course takes an in-depth look at the nature of bias and how it impacts the University of Edinburgh.The course provides psychological insights into how our own behaviour might be affected by prejudice and looks at what we can do to reduce or eliminate its influence in the decisions that we make.

This course contains more than an hour's worth of insightful video content, including re-staged psychological experiments, original drama scenarios and expert analysis to help you see and feel unconscious bias at work and how to challenge and overcome it within yourself and others.

By taking this course you will be able to:

  • Understand how and why people are biased
  • Identify how unconscious bias can impact on the workplace and on working relationships
  • Know what we can do to reduce or eliminate bias from our decision-making processes
  • Have confidence in how to address bias in specific situations, such as recruitment and performance management

Note to users

Training can be carried out at your own pace. If you don't want to complete the course in one session, click 'Bookmark' before exiting People and Money (P&M) and it will automatically take you back to where you left off when you next log in.

This course has an automatic 3-year renewal period enabled.   You will be reassigned the course 90 days before your 3-year anniversary.   You are welcome to review the course between completion and renewal, but this will not be reflected in P&M

If you experience any problems with this e-learning training module please contact the HR Helpline.

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Understanding Unconscious Bias (online course in People and Money)

Completing the course:

You should view the course completion certificate, and the following page in the course to ensure this activity is also marked as complete. More information on checking if you have completed the course can be found in the pdf here:  

 Completing EDI Learning in People and Money - Top Tips (241.14 KB PDF)

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