Join us for an evening with behavioural scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal as she discusses her new book SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias. In-conversation with Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, Dr Pragya Agarwal will unravel the way our implicit or 'unintentional' biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the world, and how they affect our decision-making, even in life and death situations.Book signing to follow event.
Join us for an evening with behavioural scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal as she discusses her new book SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias. In-conversation with Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, Dr Pragya Agarwal will unravel the way our implicit or 'unintentional' biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the world, and how they affect our decision-making, even in life and death situations. Dr Pragya Agarwal is a two-time TEDx speaker, with expertise in cognition and User-centred Design, focussed especially in diversity and inclusivity. As a senior academic at US and UK Universities, following a PhD from the University of Nottingham. She held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship. As a freelance journalist, she regularly writes thought pieces on racial and gender bias for The Guardian, Times Higher Education, Forbes, Prospect, among others. Dr Priyamvada Gopal is a Reader at the Faculty of English at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Reviews of SWAYIf you think you don't need to read this book, you really need to read this book. Jane Garvey, presenter, BBC Radio 4An exhaustive, brilliantly researched survey of bias and how it seeps so easily into our everyday thoughts and actions, from gender essentialism to casual racism. Calmly and without polemic, Agarwal explains why we all need to work harder to avoid lazy prejudice and simplistic narratives if we are to build a fairer society. An eye-opening book that I hope will be widely read. Angela Saini, science journalist and author of Superior and Inferior
