Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Plan

We will ensure all of our students and staff feel they belong and find their place in our diverse and inclusive community.

 The purpose of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Excellence (EDI) Plan is to set out the Guild’s steps to creating and ensuring their staff and members feel equitably supported, welcomed and included. The Guild aims to create an environment in which all individuals can maximise their potential, free from discrimination or harassment. The Guild proactively seeks to remove barriers to participation across all activities and areas of work, supported by a staff team that more closely reflects the community.

What success looks like: Our goals

1. Devloping our team and making sure all staff feel supported
2. Consistent EDI practice across all aeras of the guild
3. Increasing diversity in our teams
4. Diversifying the student offer access the organisation

How we'll get there:

Our vision for EDI Excellence will be achieved by delivering the following goals

Developing our team and making sure all of our staff feel supported.

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion plan is embedded into the organisation -setting out our commitment and vision to equality diversity and inclusion within the organisation
• Development of Training Programme that links to the University obligatory training but is a unique programme for the Guild that can feed into both the EDI plan and the overall strategic plan
• Create resources hub / EDI Toolkit for staff to access. .

Embed consistent good EDI practice across all areas of the Guild

• Continue to develop the staff EDI Action Group that will drive and feed into our work in this area
• Gain a more detailed external quality mark/standard around EDI work
• Review and refresh of all policies relating to EDI and Legislation changes
• Ensuring all staff who are on interview panels receive recruitment training and understand how the guaranteed interview scheme works
• Continue to build and link to work that is being done with our members and feed into the left-out students and EDI project led by Student Activities team workstream meeting
• Review and refresh of all policies relating to EDI

Increasing diversity in our staff teams

• Evaluating and updating our recruitment approach and materials- this will also link to the wider recruitment review within the HR Excellence plan
• Increase diversity / representation within our staff teams both Career and Student Staff areas – Reviewing the HR Metrics dashboard information that is reported to our People Culture and EDI Committee

Read our full EDI strategy here