Am I optimistic that something can be done? No.
Is there something that can be done? I think you can factor this into a whole host of things in institutional higher education funding. Make those research funding decisions really based on the research. If there's a political officer in the room assessing the politics of these things, ensure that they're thinking more than about party politics, that they're thinking about the small-p political elements that will enter into research funding decisions, especially in the humanities and social sciences. It's not about someone saying, “I don't like that person, because they're a Liberal or a Conservative.” That's not the issue. It's about the under-guiding cultural assumptions that operate in certain groups. When an institution is, as we found, almost 90% made up of people from certain political perspectives, it is impossible that that organization is not going to be troubled by these concerns and biases.