Royal Society of Chemistry announces grant to fund 10 projects tackling diversity issues

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£677,000 scheme aims to address racial and ethnic inequalities in the chemical sciences

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced a new £677,000 grant scheme to address racial and ethnic inequalities in the chemical sciences.

The Missing Elements Grants Scheme funding, which comes just over a year after the publication of the RSC’s Missing Elements report which highlighted the problems affecting those from minority ethnic backgrounds, will be shared between projects at 10 universities in the UK and Ireland.