Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

The Student Experience Directorate prioritises embedding EDI across all activities. To support staff, we developed the Student Experience EDI Action Plan 23-24 [PDF 175KB] with the EDI committee and Chris Shelley, tracking progress on agreed outputs listed below:

• Establish a directorate Exit Interview process to enable sharing of learnings.
• Promote Aurora development programme to our staff who identify as women and support applications to increase the number of places given to SE staff.
• Promote the Parents and Carers Network to staff in this category and support their involvement in attendance at this forum.
• Promote other women’s professional development programmes available e.g. Springboard, Carer’s Development Fund.
• Work with the HR team to ensure our roles are advertised to attract the widest pool of candidates.
• Set up directorate EDI Committee and support their development as individuals and a group, support communication with staff to identify issues and ideas and provide administrative support for projects they wish to lead or monitor.
• Agree with EDI Committee a plan for engaging with staff on EDI issues, e.g. web form submissions, regular forums, drop-ins with senior staff.
• Report progress on this Action Plan through the directorate EDI Committee.
• Student Experience Directorate roles to be advertised with additional focus on flexibility to ensure applicants understand the flexible working options available.

The Student Experience Directorate EDI & Wellbeing Feedback Form is a permanent tool for all staff in the directorate to use to send in suggestions for things we could do to better support you, comments on activities we have run or raise general issues of concern if you are unsure of how else to do that.

It will enable you to communicate feedback of your experiences with the Director and, where appropriate, the directorate EDI Committee and you have that choice within the form. The form will be open all year round so can be used at any time.

This isn't a reporting form for incidents that require investigation - for that please use Report and Support - but if there are general issues of concern you wish to raise then that can be done through this form. The form can be submitted anonymously or not, it is up to you.

The form includes questions relating to EDI data for collection purposes only which would be used to identify trends and patterns and would not be used to identify you in any way. You can submit the form without providing this data if you prefer to.

We've put together a document outlining the Role of an EDI Committee member [DOC 22KB] and their key responsibilities. If you would like to find out more, or are interesting in joining, please get in touch for an informal chat.

You can also view our EDI Committee Terms of reference [PDF 511KB] or contact our committee members directly:

• Co-Chairs: Julie Kouamo and Ku'ulei Lewis
• Advice and Counselling Service: Kavita Jaidev and Vuong Ngo
• Careers and Enterprise: Anna Fons Garcia
• Disability and Dyslexia Service: Huong Hoang-Wilson, Heather Tilley and Kay Hall
• Library Services: Chenee Psaros and Matthew Dowell
• Operations and Improvement: Hassan Mahmud
• Registry Services: David Lake and Tania Green 
• Student Life: Christina Govier

Read a summary of progress made originally presented during our Summer Conference 2024 EDI Update [PDF 1,543KB].

Join the Student Experience EDI Network Teams Site which has been established to help create a community where we can connect and post EDI related thoughts, discuss issues affecting us and share best practice.

Managers’ tools: Addressing Bullying and Harassment

• Toolkit - Bullying and Harassment [PDF 1,626KB], covering
  • Setting expectations
  • Recognising and reporting bullying and harassment
  • Acting on concerns raised
  • This is a recently launched resource (published May 2024); the OPD Team will be working with local leaders to establish a way to ensure managers find the toolkit accessible and easy to navigate.