Priorities for 2022-23
Every year the University of Sunderland strives to improve our promotion and support of equity, diversity and inclusion. This year, the main focus is to embed EDI across the University consistently.
Our priority this year will be to continue to recognise, celebrate and improve our diversity and inclusion, and work to embed a consistent experience for staff and students across the campuses.
We'll continue to ensure that we're a place that welcomes diversity, and anyone with talent can thrive, bringing to life the core value of an inclusive environment. To be truly successful means recognising where current inequality or unfairness exists and how it came to be. This is why the Race Equality Charter will be a central pillar of the work that we do in 2023-34.
For 2023-24, faculties and professional support teams across the University will have events, plans, and initiatives in place to do this centred around the following themes:
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- Mainstreaming inclusion into the University’s strategic and planning agenda
- Compliance with legal obligations including public sector equality duty
- Promoting a culture of mutual respect by working towards a fair and inclusive community
- Involving staff, students and other stakeholders in the development and delivery of our equality, diversity and inclusion aims and priorities.
- Having effective student and staff equality profile data analysis that informs our actions by gathering, analysing and monitoring our staff and student profile
- Ensuring student and staff support services, learning and teaching, buildings, facilities and media are, as far as reasonably possible, accessible to all
- Promoting a culture of mutual respect by working towards a fair and inclusive community and providing strategies to prevent discrimination, harassment or victimisation
- Ensuring that staff are equipped with the appropriate skills and knowledge on equality, diversity and inclusion matters.
- Increasing the successful inclusion of staff from all equality strands at the University
- Promoting our equality, diversity and inclusion values and the EDI policy through internal and external communications
- Ensuring that all contractors and service providers operating on behalf of the University are aware of our equality policy and are able to adhere to it
- Ensuring implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the EDI policy and Annual Action Plan.
Contact us
We welcome feedback on equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Please contact our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team, inclusion@sunderland.ac.uk or the Students' Union at yoursu@sunderland.ac.uk.