Our commitment
Our increasingly diverse community of staff and students is part of what makes our University so special. Valuing the different contributions that each of us brings and respecting each other sits at the heart of our commitment to the talented people who visit, work and study with us.
We're fully committed to promoting equality and eliminating discrimination for our staff and students, applicants and visitors. This means that as an integral part of the way we work, we seek to ensure that people are treated equitably regardless of their:
- age
- disability
- ethnicity (including race, colour and nationality)
- gender
- gender reassignment
- religion or belief
- sexual orientation
- marriage and civil partnership
- pregnancy or maternity.
The Board of Governors, through the Vice-Chancellor, has ultimate responsibility for ensuring that our equality policies are fully implemented. Each manager is accountable for delivering the equality commitments in their areas of responsibility. All staff are required to ensure that they apply the University’s equality and diversity policies and this is enshrined in our job descriptions. But there is a broader expectation that as well as our staff teams, all of our students, partners, and those carrying out work or delivering services on our behalf will comply with our policies and ensure that their behaviour and/or actions do not amount to conscious or unconscious discrimination or bullying and harassment in any way.
On a day-to-day basis the head of resourcing, diversity and inclusion and the equality and diversity team, alongside our committees and other forums support us in guiding, implementing, and meeting our annual reporting responsibilities under the Public Sector Equality Duty.