Race Equity

UCL Arts & Humanities is an ethnically diverse community and we are committed to supporting staff and students. This includes but not limited to: the Dean’s Race Equality Pledges 2020; Race Equity research in the faculty; BME Students’ Network.

Dean’s Race Equality Pledges 2020

• Ensure that all departments and degree courses have an inclusion lead
• Ensure that all departments and degree courses have a 2-year EDI plan which includes race equality objectives
• Support staff to embed race awareness in their everyday practice through sharing of internal and external digital resources
• Ensure that all staff on selection panels have completed unconscious bias training
• Organise student town hall every term and use feedback to inform EDI plans at dept level
• Ensure past 3 years’ student & staff EDI data made available to HoDs and DMs to support planning
• Make sure all new degree courses embed race equality in their design by carrying out an EDI ‘health-check’
• Make sure job descriptions for all new academic staff appointments have been approved by faculty EDI committee
• Make sure HoDs and appraisers encourage all qualified staff to apply for promotion and career development opportunities

Race Equity research in the faculty

The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation explores the impact of racism - scientific, metaphysical and cultural.

UCL Resources

• Access and Widening Participation
• B-MEntor Academic
• B-MEntor Professional
• Deans and Professional Services Director’s Race Equality Pledges 2020
• Fair Recruitment Specialist Scheme
• Guidance for Managers - Supporting Black Staff at Work
• Inclusive Advocacy
• Race equality educational resources
• Racial and Xenophobic Harassment
• Student BME Networks, Clubs and Societies
• UCL BME Attainment Project
• UCL’s Statement on Race

Find more information on UCL’s EDI page 

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