EDI Committee Statement

Equality, diversity & inclusion

Diversity of experience, thought and perspective enriches our university and the lives of its community. It is crucial to our ongoing development as an international institution. Our ambition is to be recognised as a sector leader in identifying and removing systemic barriers associated with race, ethnicity, or national origin, class or socio-economic background, sexuality or gender identity, religion or faith, age, disability, marital status or caring responsibilities, which have previously prevented talented individuals from studying or working with us, or from progressing in their field.

We recognise that historically, differing access to education maintained social inequality. In recent decades progress has been made in higher education to widen participation, but there is more work to be done before we have true equality of academic opportunity and attainment.

To support this work within Loughborough University London we have established an Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) committee. The committee is made up of staff and students.

Purpose

The purpose of the LUL LDN EDI Committee is to set the EDI agenda for the London campus, understand the needs of groups within our university community with protected characteristics and those groups who are minoritized or marginalised, and work to ensure that the London campus has an inclusive culture in which all staff and students feel valued, respected and engaged in line with the university’s People and Organisational Development Strategy.

The composition of the committee is as follows:

Committee Chair – Dr Andrea Geurin

Associate Dean Enterprise – Graham Hitchen

Associate Dean Research – Professor Aidan McGarry

Associate Dean Teaching – Professor Jo Tacchi

Women’s Representative – Dr Emily Hayday

LGBT+ Representative – Professor Aidan McGarry

BAME Representative – Dr Angela Dy

Carer’s Representative – Dr Ksenija Kuzmina

Disabilities Representative –Sylvia Easy-Hemmings

Mental Health Representative – Dr Debbie Eagle

Athena Swan Lead – Dr Anna Grosman

Student Support – Limahl Mair-Macfarlane

London HR – Miranda Bioh

University HR – Nadine Skinner

PGT Rep – Jad Bseiso

PGR Rep – Happy Singhu Hansen

Events:

As part of celebrating our community and our work to ensure true equality of academic opportunity and attainment we are running regular events to listen and learn. For details of these events please check out our events pages here.