1. What do we do? FMS Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Team
Lead on Faculty Athena SWAN activity
Implement policies, initiatives and KPIs in support of equality, diversity & inclusion
Be champions for equality, diversity and inclusion, internally and externally
@FMSDiversityNCL
Professor Candy Rowe, Director of Diversity
Ann Armstrong, Diversity Officer
The Faculty has an EDI Team, which is committed to making more inclusive working environments for all our staff and students, ensuring and celebrating our diversity
The EDI Team help the Faculty build an environment of engagement and inclusion, and ensure that all our staff and students achieve their full potential.
The Faculty values equality and diversity, and endeavours to embed these principles in all that we do.
Members of the EDI team are based in the Faculty Office, and can be contacted by or twitter – more details are available on the Faculty website.
Malasree Home, Athena SWAN Support Officer

2. What does the FMS EDI Team do?
Work with our staff and students to implement policies, initiatives and culture change in support of equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI)
Lead our Faculty Athena SWAN Silver Award application in recognition of our work towards gender equality
Run events and activities to support our work
The Diversity team is responsible for leading the Faculty’s Equality and Diversity activities.
Based on conversations/feedback from staff and students, we try to understand career challenges faced by different groups across the Faculty, and address them through policy changes, new initiatives and culture change. We work within the frameworks of a number of accreditation schemes, including Athena SWAN (signed up 2009) and the Race Equality charters (signing up to this academic year), the Stonewall Global Diversity Champion Programme (signed up 2016) and the Business Disability Forum (signed up 2017)
The Faculty holds 5 Silver and 4 Bronze Athena SWAN awards, which are national awards that recognise the work going on in universities towards achieving gender equality. The Faculty is now preparing an application for the entire Faculty, which includes not only academic and research staff and students, but all our professional staff too.
We also run a wide range of activities and events to promote and support our work

3. What to look out for… Student welcome activities
‘Realising Your Potential’ sessions (Nov-May)
‘Disability and the academic’ presentation (Feb)
International Women’s Day celebrations (Mar)
And many more…… Watch out for alerts via

4. Email us at: FMS.Diversity@ncl.ac.uk
How can you get involved?
Come along to one of our events
Follow
Read or write for our blog
Talk to your local EDI team (in schools and institutes)
us with an idea or a challenge
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5. To be a world class, research intensive university
Newcastle University is committed to ‘Excellence with a Purpose’ – reflected in the University's Key aims
To be a world class, research intensive university
To deliver teaching and facilitate learning of the highest quality
To engage with society at the global and regional level to generate beneficial impact and transform lives
Our vision is of Newcastle as a civic university with a global reputation for academic excellence.
Student Success is therefore important to us!
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6. Students are key partners in achieving the University’s aims
The Student Charter has been developed to provide a statement of Student Academic Rights and responsibilities alongside Behavioural Expectations
The University requires students to conduct themselves in a reasonable manner at all times, both on and off Campus.
These values are essential to the functioning of an academic community and the University will take appropriate action where a proven breach of its policies/ regulations relating to student conduct has occurred
Any misconduct will be investigated via the Student Disciplinary Procedure
Student Charter:
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7. Creating a safe and inclusive environment
In 2016 Universities UK produced a ‘Changing the Culture’ report, which all UK Universities were asked to consider and respond to. Newcastle University takes all reports of violence, misconduct and discrimination seriously, and are committed to thorough investigations, prevention of misconduct and support for those involved.
Bystander Intervention:
- We endorse the principle that both staff and students have a collective responsibility to ensure we are all working/studying in a positive environment. We encourage individuals to be active bystanders and intervene to prevent problematic situations. Intervention may involve speaking out in the face of discrimination, reporting an incident, or diffusing a situation using distraction techniques. Link to video:
Reporting:
You can report an incident involving yourself or a third party. You may make an appointment with one of our counsellors, and the survivor/ victim retains control of the process.
Security: on-duty 24 hours per day, 365 days of the year or via
Universities UK is a representative body which strives to be a voice for all UK universities, on recommendations about policies and procedures.
The report asked UK universities to implement various policies and procedures for preventing and responding to any violence, discrimination or bullying on university campuses.
As a result of this, Newcastle University has been reviewing its procedures this past year and is implementing new mechanisms for ensuring the safety of its students and for supporting students and staff.
These procedures include systems for preventing incidents, for instance through awareness training and campaigns, and for responding, through having effective reporting and support mechanisms. 7

8. For Yourself – allowing yourself the best chance of success.
Respect is Important
For Yourself – allowing yourself the best chance of success.
For Fellow Students
Members of Staff
Members of the Community.
Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, irrespective of any personal characteristics, such race, gender reassignment, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion and belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership.
Everyone should foster mutual respect and understanding for all members of the University community and beyond.
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