Key Activities
Key activities in 2022/23
Actions so far include:
- launching our BES Athena Swan Action Plan
- establishing a BES Inclusion Ambassador Network of trained staff to promote allyship and provide advice on dealing with student issues related to harassment, bullying and inappropriate behaviour
- establishing a BES Student Cultural Diversity Network
Key activities in 2021/22
In 2021/22 the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences:
- established the BES EDI group and the BES Student EDI group
- analysed BES student demographic and attainment gap data to inform our 2021/22 objectives
- set up anonymous online forms, one for staff and one for students, to raise issues/suggestions on EDI matters
- collaborated with students to design and run a Student Harassment Survey to gain data to inform actions
- won funding, from the Teaching and Learning Academy, and supervised two BES student internships to address inclusivity in the curriculum
- began decolonising the curriculum by conducting an audit of current and planned delivery of a decolonial perspectives in all programmes
- been awarded a departmental Athena Swan Bronze Award. The new revised Athena Swan charter is inclusive of all genders and intersectional with all protected characteristics