Abstract
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is committing £1.5 million ($2 million) to create a race and ethnicity unit to tackle racism in UK chemistry. The RSC announced the initiative as part of the publication of Missing Elements: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in the Chemical Sciences . The report draws on interviews, focus groups, and statistical analyses to describe racial and ethnic inequalities in academia and industry in the UK. It finds that Black, Asian, and multiracial chemists, as well as those from other marginalized racial and ethnic groups, are underrepresented at senior levels in academia. Data from fiscal year 2019–20 show that principal investigators (PIs) from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups received 10% less funding than white PIs. The University of Nottingham’s Robert Mokaya, the only Black chemistry professor in the UK, says in an RSC press release that “ Missing Elements is a watershed moment—it is also a
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