Dr Pete Jones

Organisation

Shire Professional Chartered Psychologists

Job title

Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist

Biography

Pete is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist with a background in psychometrics and assessment. He is a former research manager at the UK Home Office. Pete is the UK’s leading applied subject matter expert on unconscious (implicit) bias.  He has provided research, training and consultancy across the HEI sector from Faculty Exec. Boards, Student Union officers, researchers and support staff managers. He has delivered unconscious bias training for the Institute of Physics and the Society for General Microbiology. In the private sector he has provided research and consultancy services and trained board members and managerial staff in companies including Allianz, C A Technology, BAE, RBS Group, Goldman Sachs, ASDA, Atkins, and Babcock. He was the co-author of the 2013 Equality Challenge Unit report on implicit bias in selection in HEI. Pete is the developer of Implicitly® the unconscious bias test platform, and the leading business metric for measuring unconscious biases and their likely impact upon decisions and behaviour at work. Pete talks openly about his own biases and his attempts to mitigate their effects.