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| Equity & Diversity
Hey, I’m Sienna Grant. One of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Interns here at the university, also studying BA Digital Media. It’s Women’s History Month! We are here to celebrate the achievements and contributions made by women throughout history. We…
Hello Welcome to this week’s blog. I’d like to pick up the theme from our last post. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to post last week. We were at Advance HE’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference in Liverpool. In addition to…
Hello Last week a student pointed out to me that, we are almost at the first anniversary of our blog. I hadn’t noticed at all! However, now that I have, I’d like to say a massive thank you to everyone…
Hello I thought I would continue the theme of race in this week’s blog and talk about our Challenge for Change project. If you read our blog regularly, you’ll know this is our project with Advance HE. In April 2016,…
Hello In this week’s blog, I thought I would build on last week’s theme. We highlighted the origins of Black History Month with a post from Professor Neil Wynn. It’s important to set out the context for events like Black History…
Welcome back. We thought we would take a break in August. With holiday commitments, life at work was a little quiet. We spent the time making plans and preparing for the new academic year. Whilst there are lots of ideas,…
Hi This week I thought I would continue with a theme from last week’s blog, A Call to Action. About this time of year, we hold a workshop with members of the Equality and Diversity Committee, plus wider representation from…
Hello I hope you’ve enjoyed reading our guest bloggers over the last few weeks. They’ve shared some humourous and very personal experiences. I wondered if Adam’s and Kirsten’s stories had motivated you to take action? Have you offered, or are…
Hi I was watching a BBC news programme a couple of weekends ago and saw a story about a young woman, Shanel Drewe. I hadn’t heard of her, but at 17 years of age she won 2nd place in the…