098 Challenging Biases in Surveying with Selina Baptiste

The Surveyor Hub Podcast

Selina Baptiste is a Chartered Surveyor with experience in the built environment as a commercial manager and a cost consultant. She is a Quantity Surveyor at Gardiner and Theobald. In this frank and insightful conversation, Selina shares her experiences navigating her career as a woman of colour, a parent seeking work-life balance and the surveyor she is.

What is Covered:

• Selina’s journey into surveying and the hurdles she had to overcome
• Work-life balance challenges and retention issues for women in surveying
• The benefits of experiencing all aspects of the built environment
• How the diversity topic came much more into light in the past few years in the surveying industry
• How women surveyors can support the next generation of surveyors as role models
• The biases Selina was exposed to throughout her career and how she responded to them

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Resources:

• International Women’s Day 2022 at RICS
• RICS Matrics
• Building People
• Stop Telling Women They Have an Imposter Syndrome - Harvard Business Review
• Gardiner and Theobald

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