This survey is completely anonymous - we are unable to track the responses to individuals.  Therefore, we are asking some simple demographic and job family questions to help us stratify our results. 

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* 1. What is your Gender?

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* 2. How old are you?

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* 3. Are you clinically active?

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* 4. What is your job family?

We're interested in SfE BES audience participation and how best to ensure wider engagement.  We would like to gauge your perceptions of audience participation.

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* 5. Do you think men or women ask more questions in the open forum at the end of talks at SfE BES conferences?

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* 6. From your experience, which age-group do you think are likely to ask more questions at the conference?

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* 7. If you think that a certain category of audience member (age or gender) asks more questions at the conference, please state WHY you think this happens.

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* 8. If you think certain audience groups ask fewer questions, please state WHY you think this happens.

Finally, we are interested to hear your personal feelings about asking a question at SfE BES conferences.

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* 9. How likely are you to ask a question at the end of a session at the SfE BES conference (in front of the rest of the audience)?

Definitely will not ask Definitely will ask
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* 10. How important are these reasons to you for NOT asking a question at SfE BES conferences?

  This does not apply to me at all This applies to me greatly
I don't have questions (talk answers everything)
I don't want to draw attention to myself
The forum is intimidating
I don't want to say something others may think sounds stupid
I don't want to appear bigheaded

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* 11. How important are these reasons to you for asking a question at SfE BES conferences?

  This does not apply to me at all This applies to me greatly
To promote academic discussion
To network or improve my visibility
To highlight unacknowledged work
The answer may change my scientific/clinical practice
Curiosity about the topic being delivered
To clarify something that the speaker said

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* 12. Do you have any other comments about how we may be able to improve inclusion at the conference?

Thank you very much for your time in filling out this survey.  Please encourage your colleagues to complete it too.  The results of this study will be reported in The Endocrinologist in due course.

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