Please see below new EDI Training Dates available to all Academics and Professional Services staff.<\/p>\n
Overview: \u00a0<\/strong>We all need to be mindful of our individual and collective responsibility in our everyday and working lives to take action when we witness bullying, harassment or other forms of inappropriate behaviours.\u00a0 Being an active bystander means being aware of a situation and choosing to take action.\u00a0 This programme will support you to find your voice, to step up and speak out.\u00a0 You will learn to recognise when someone may need help and the bystander intervention strategies and techniques to address the perpetrator about their behaviours.<\/p>\n Access and sign up to the \u2018Be an Active Bystander Programme\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Overview: <\/strong>White Privilege introduces participants to the concepts of \u201cprivilege\u201d, \u201cwhiteness\u201d\u00a0 and the intersectionality of these two constructs.\u00a0\u00a0The programme also discusses specifically what being white and privilege means and how it impacts on our environment and our responsibilities to challenge this to ensure under-represented members of our community can benefit from the powerful white privilege position some of us hold.\u00a0 This programme has been designed to initiate important conversations, understanding and empathy, all in a safe space to explore, experience and discuss the difficult concepts of \u201cwhiteness\u201d and \u201cwhite privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n Access and sign up to the \u2018White Privilege Programme\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Overview: <\/strong>The Anti-racism and Allyship training programme follows on from the White Privilege programme.\u00a0\u00a0This programme continues the concepts explored in White Privilege with connected ideas on race and racism.\u00a0 The training addresses the importance of behaviour through examples, self-reflection and group discussions.\u00a0 It also provides advice and approaches for challenging, developing and changing our behaviours so that the University becomes a place of anti-racism and allyship for our colleagues, students and visitors of Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.\u00a0 This programme has been designed to initiate important conversations, understanding and empathy, all in a safe space to explore, experience and discuss the concepts of race and racism.<\/p>\n Access and sign up to the \u2018Anti-racism & Allyship Programme\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n For queries about any of the above programmes contact Vi Parker<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> Anti-Slavery Day is marked every year on October 18th<\/strong><\/p>\n Overview:<\/strong> Many people think that slavery ended with abolition in the 19th century, but this is not the case.\u00a0 Modern slavery is a global problem and international crime, affecting millions of people worldwide, including many victims within the UK. Men, women and children of all ages and backgrounds are victims of human trafficking, forced labour, domestic servitude or debt bondage<\/p>\n Do you wish to support and demonstrate the University’s commitment to issues of social justice? <\/strong><\/p>\n Then the above course is an opportunity you must not miss! Enrol and complete the course on the central Learning Management System.<\/em><\/p>\n Register for the Modern Slavery Training Course\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Duration: <\/strong>\u00a010 to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n Overview: <\/strong>The SACS EDI committee is thrilled to present the first event in its 2021-22 EDI seminar.\u00a0 It features three excellent discussants from the UK and Australia. The purpose of the event is to create a space for colleagues at all levels to reflect on and discuss the challenges facing\u00a0women and non-binary people as they carry out, and communicate their research, both in and outside of the University.<\/p>\n What it is about \u00a0<\/strong>What \u00a0to expect \u00a0<\/strong>Emphasis of this event & activities Access and register for the ‘Serious Women’ EDI Seminar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Details of all speakers Sarah Burton<\/u>\u00a0is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London. Her research addresses the relationship between knowledge, knowledge production and concepts of cosmopolitanism, modernity, value, and neoliberalism. Her Leverhulme project focuses on the figure of \u2018the intellectual\u2019 and how this relates to ideas of experts, expertise, language, and the public sphere.<\/p>\n Sarah Hill<\/u>\u00a0is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. Her research interests lie within feminist media studies and girlhood studies and her current work explores disabled girls\u2019 and young women\u2019s online self-representation practices. She is the author of\u00a0Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2020).<\/p>\n Cassandra Phoenix<\/u>\u00a0is a Associate Professor in Physical Activity and Health at Durham University since 2019 and Fellow of Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing.\u00a0 Her research takes the form of two inter-related strands. The first focuses on healthy ageing across the life course and the second strand focuses on the connections between health, wellbeing and the environment by examining people\u2019s engagement with and connection to \u201cnature\u201d.<\/p>\n Who can attend? For more information\/queries contact:<\/strong> Verena Niepel<\/a><\/span> or Katie Markham<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Last week People Services<\/em> together with the For Families team announced some significant enhancements and new provisions to our suite of family friendly policies. You can read about this in an article<\/a><\/span> written by the Director of People Services.<\/p>\n Notable are some improvements resulting from your feedback namely:<\/strong><\/p>\n What happens next and what else has been achieved?<\/strong><\/p>\n For additional information or queries contact<\/strong>\u00a0Renita Barbour<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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\n<\/strong>This panel aims at\u00a0sharing experiences of scholars who have faced\u00a0barriers to being ‘taken seriously’ when trying to conduct and communicate their research, and develop their careers. This panel takes as its starting point that women and non-binary people are often positioned as not being ‘serious’ enough researchers, both in and outside of Higher Education, and that these positionings tend to be intersectional in nature, and influenced by things like race, disability and class. The panel also recognises that the challenge of being ‘taken seriously’ is one that can be experienced by those in Humanities and Social Sciences in particular, where lone working styles, and neoliberal approaches to research mean that the ability to cultivate collaborations, recruit research participants, and establish networks for advancing careers are often impacted by other people’s perceptions of the researcher.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>At this EDI event, our panellists will reflect on some of these issues, and discuss how they have impacted their own careers, or those of colleagues around them, as well as discussing the kinds of strategies that have worked for them in the past, as they have had to navigate these obstacles.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Thinking through how, at a University level, we might start to tackle the issue of some researchers ‘not being taken seriously’. As such, aspects of this workshop will involve active participation from attendees, so please do be ready to come along and share your experiences and ideas.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Crystal Abidin<\/u> is A socio-cultural anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, particularly young people\u2019s relationships with internet celebrity, self-curation, and vulnerability. She is Associate Professor of Internet Studies, Principal Research Fellow, and ARC DECRA Fellow at Curtin University.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>All HaSS staff and PGR students.<\/p>\n\n
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