UCL Educational Psychology Group: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The mission of the Educational Psychology Group is to embrace diversity, equity and inclusive practice across all aspects of professional training. Tutors and trainees recognise the need to show awareness, sensitivity and an ethical commitment to ensuring equitable and inclusive practice and to respond as appropriate. In order to do this, we will:

• Encourage recruitment of trainees and tutors with diverse backgrounds.
• Commit to maintaining a culture across the group which promotes respect, equity, inclusion and belonging for all
• Commit to conducting research that generates new knowledge reflecting a diverse society.
• Ensure the integration of equity, diversity and inclusion into all aspects of teaching and learning.
• Encourage and facilitate trainees to seek out placement experiences with diverse populations.
• Develop Educational and Child Psychology events for external audiences that address equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Implement the UCL Equity and Inclusion Plan and updated UCL strategies as they are published.
• Ensure the Educational Psychology Group Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Group, including tutor, trainee and alumni representatives, steers our work in this area.

The UCL Educational Psychology Group shares the British Psychological Society’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, as outlined in the BPS Strategic Framework (June 2021-December 2022): https://www.bps.org.uk/diversity-and-inclusion.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Group

We are a group of trainee educational psychologists (TEPs), educational psychologists who are studying for the CPD doctorate in educational psychology, alumni and tutors. We meet together on a regular basis to support the Educational Psychology Group in developing best practice in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.

We aim to ensure that a broad range of perspectives are represented in developing policy and practice in this area, for example, in relation to gender, ethnicity, faith, sexuality, disability and ages and situations.

So far, we have developed a resource base where, across the whole Educational Psychology Group, we can save and share useful resources. We have developed a ‘Belonging’ survey which has been used to gather feedback from students across both programmes since 2020, providing feedback on the curricular and what’s it’s like to be part of the group, as well as eliciting ideas for future developments. We sit alongside the UCL Educational Psychology Discussion Forum; a safe and creative space for students and tutors to explore issues relating to EDI. This is open to all members of the Educational Psychology Group.