This was the third questionnaire that examined the main factors of belonging, authenticity, satisfaction, cultural wellbeing, and support. A reminder that we care about these factors because they could impact who stays in the engineering and technology sectors.

• Sense of Belonging: Includes overall sense of belonging, social connections, and emotional connections in someone’s current workplace or place of study.
• Authenticity: Includes three sub-factors of authentic living (being true to self), self-connection (knowing who one is), and external influence (resisting influence from others).
• Satisfaction: Includes current job satisfaction or satisfaction with their place of study and overall career satisfaction.
• Cultural Wellbeing: Includes feelings of safety, empowerment, enjoyment, and satisfaction with your organisation’s understanding of one’s identity.
• Support: Includes the amount of advice, feedback, and assistance you get from your coworkers and supervisors.

A summary of the means for each factor or sub-factor are shown below. The darkest orange dots show the mean response on this questionnaire, while the lighter dots show the responses from previous questionnaires with the lightest dot representing the first data collection. There are a few factors where trends are beginning to emerge. The “rejecting external influence” sub-factor of authenticity is showing positive trends with participants showing stronger levels of authenticity over time. However, overall sense of belonging and career satisfaction are both trending down, and there was a significant drop in satisfaction with place of study for those who are continuing their studies. We will continue to monitor these trends as the longitudinal study continues. We will share more detailed results as they become available along with recommendations for industry based on our findings.

Mean Scores for Factors
For each of the scores, the range is 1 to 5, where 1 is low and 5 is high (e.g. 5 indicates the highest sense of belonging).

Acknowledgements: Many thanks to all of the ENGclusion participants for their time and commitment to our study and to our funders for supporting this research.