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We value diversity and recognise the new perspectives that this can bring to our working, learning and teaching community.

Through our diversity initiatives we are creating a culture in which everyone is able to fulfil their potential. Initiatives include:

• Reviewing our recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that we attract diverse talent;
• Increasing the number of women on recruitment panels;
• Including a statement on diversity and flexible working on our job advertisements;
• Introducing a number of career development and support initiatives for female staff, including a mentoring scheme open to all, the Step Up Women's Network, Advanced HE's Aurora Programme and our internal Women as Leaders programme;
• Rolling our training and development on topics such as unconscious bias to highlight the impact of bias on key decision-making, and roles and responsibilities under the Equality Act;
• Working towards becoming a Disability Confident Employer;
• Moving our gender pay action plan forward.

Awards and recognitions

We are recipients of the following awards:

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• Institutional Bronze award. Find out more about our Athena SWAN action plan.

And member of:

• Advanced HE,
• The Women's Engineering Society,
• Working Families.

Strategy

For us, diversity goes beyond simply that which is expected by law. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and action plan, supported by a range of policies and procedures, highlight how we are going beyond these obligations to:

• Eliminate unlawful discrimination/harassment and victimisations;
• Promote equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not;
• Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristics and those who do not.