Equality Diversity and Inclusion: what we do

Progress is reported quarterly to the University Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Team supports owners to deliver on their actions and mainstream equality within their business area. 

University Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee 

This committee is a subcommittee of the University Court. It is where the University leadership meets with the EDI Team and representatives from staff networks, trade unions and student representatives to identify and address any matters related to equality, and set out the strategic direction for the University. 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team 

The Deputy Director of EDI and Senior EDI Partner are subject matter experts, with many years’ experience in equality work in HE and other sectors. The EDI Team provide advice, training and guidance on all aspects of equality to staff and students across the University. They provide direct support to School EDI Committees and have responsibility for reporting on progress to the University EDI Committee. The EDI Team are also responsible for preparing our Equality Mainstreaming Report, Equality Outcome Action Plans and Equal Pay and Pay Gap reports.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leads

Our EDI Leads are vitally important to promoting the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda out to staff and students in the schools. They have a key role in supporting the staff and students in their Schools and the providing direction to the School Management Team in relation to day-to-day equality matters.

Equality Impact Assessment

Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is an evidence-based process that the University uses to consider the impacts of key decisions about our University and its activities that affect our people – our students, our colleagues and our service users. It is effectively a business tool that we can use to ensure that our decisions, policies, procedures, practices and activities do what they are intended to do, are fair and inclusive to everyone.

Training

We have a range of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training on MyDundee and several toolkits and guides available on our website.

Our Talent and Development team has a program of courses, which include courses related to equality, diversity and inclusion.

For more information about our training, please contact the EDI Team at [email protected].

Athena Swan

Athena Swan is a charter that recognises and celebrates good practice towards the advancement of gender equality. We have been involved in the Athena Swan Charter Mark programme for many years and the University and several of our Schools hold Awards.

Advance HE Race Charter

The University of Dundee has been a member of Advance HE's Race Equality Charter since December 2018, which aims to improve the representation, progression and success of minority ethnic staff and students. The University of Dundee holds a Charter Award in recognition of the work that it has done thus far to meet the standards of the Race Equality Charter.