UCL to launch LGBTQ+ Equality Implementation Group

The group will be tasked with understanding the concerns and priorities of members of the LGBTQ+ community at UCL in its diversity, and with developing a set of recommended actions and a plan to deliver them.

It will establish accountability for work in this area, underpinning a sustained institutional focus on promoting equity, diversity, and inclusivity. This will include tackling inequality, marginalisation, and discrimination experienced by LGBTQ+ staff and students at UCL, with particular attention given to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming members of our community.

LEIG will report directly to UCL’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, and via that to UCL’s University Management Committee (UMC).

Professor Sasha Roseneil, UCL’s Pro-Provost (Equity and Inclusion), is currently in discussions with LGBTQ+ staff groups and representatives from Students’ Union UCL to confirm the aims and membership of the group.

Links to further information and support

• LGBTQ+ Equality Steering Group
• LGBTQ+ Staff Networks at UCL: Out@UCL, Friends of Out@UCL, UCL Trans Network, LGBTQ+ STEM Network
• Supporting LGBTQ+ staff and students at UCL
• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Programme: Staff Support Service 
• UCL’s Code of Conduct for students
• UCL HR: Equal Opportunities statement
• Report and Support, UCL’s tool to report cases of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct