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 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Ann Armstrong, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 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. For PGRs we are currently…
Working to improve University facilities for student parents
Working to improve the International Student experience and intercultural communication across the University
Working towards enabling the annual NEPG Conference to be more family-friendly and inclusive for student parents.
Developing a programme of EDI events.……. watch out for alerts via , on our webpage or via our blog

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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