## Development - Led by Pradeep Passi - Aim to bring EDI together - New governance structure - See also [[Gender split in HE courses]] ## EDI Governance 2023 ![[Screenshot 2023-03-02 at 10.13.21.png]] ## Finalised Statement of Ambition Notes >[!External Links]+ >[Paper](x-devonthink-item://D151FCD8-0D43-4ABE-9CC1-2B54221999D3) >[Council Paper Highlights](x-devonthink-item://7A587A41-5748-4F05-B7D3-F4DB7C99A5F5?page=54&annotation=Highlight&x=104&y=568) ### Our EDI Ambition > Our ambition is to be a university where inclusivity is deliberately designed and embedded into all that we do, where every student and colleague feels like they [[matter]] and belong. Our culture and institutional values will support an inspirational learning and working environment which empowers people to lead with creativity and innovation that advances equity for all. We will be a university that dismantles those institutional structures and systems that lead to discrimination, removing barriers that stand in the way of achievement, and building our strengths in advancing equity. ### Our EDI commitments - We commit to: - Ensuring anti-discriminatory approaches are communicated and applied consistently in our policies and practice. Pro-actively addressing areas such as racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia and ableism in order to advance equity and inclusive culture in our everyday practices. - Upholding our legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010 - Putting accessibility, inclusivity and belonging at the heart of our decision-making throughout the institution and always including an intersectional Equality Impact Assessment that we use to drive change. - Prioritising the eradication of discrimination and harassment at the University. Listening to the voices of those experiencing inequities as early as possible to maximise support. - Reviewing all goals annually using an intersectional lens and making changes where these are justified. - Being transparent about our EDI journey and evaluating and sharing the learning as we grow. ### How will we achieve our EDI Ambition? - We will therefore develop a whole institution approach, - Accountability and leadership for EDI initiatives will be seen and heard at every level of the institution. It will be clear who is accountable for the actions that will be developed - Students and colleagues will act as partners and co-creators to determine and operationalise our EDI goals. They will be part of the governance and operating framework and provide feedback through colleague and student surveys. - Professional services and academic communities together. It is only through this partnership approach that the EDI goals can be achieved - Action plans and targets to be data and evidence informed, - Training and development activities - Appropriate resourcing of the EDI operating framework and action planning - Evaluation of impact. - Clear and transparent communication to all ### Our EDI priorities 1. Student experience and success - Narrowing or eliminating the differences between different groups of students in their experiences 2. Colleague outcomes -Diversifying colleague representation across all and success. 3. Culture - Enhancing inclusive culture and belonging for students and grades in the workforce. 4. Research-  Diversifying the research workforce and environment. colleagues. ### Student experience and success - Ensuring that all of our students enjoy similar levels of experience and achieve similar levels of success regardless of their background is central to who we are as a university. - They will be overseen by the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) ### Inclusive culture at the University of Salford - recent refresh of our [2022](x-devonthink-item://10458C2E-CF67-4203-96BF-7E3DFDD0E932)-2027 University Strategy - Our overarching goal is to deliver year on year improvements to student and colleagues experience of inclusive culture UoS - Our working definition for inclusive culture is: *A culture where students and colleagues feel valued, where diversity in experiences, backgrounds and ways of thinking are celebrated and where all in the University of Salford community feel as though they [[matter]]. We recognise that we are all more alike than we are different.* - We have set the following goals. They will be overseen by the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) and the Associate Chief Operating Office ![[Screenshot 2023-04-24 at 15.18.45.png]]