Category: Data and Research

Sami Karamalla Gaiballa: Why Our Values Need EDI Data to Come Alive

Sami Karamalla Gaiballa: Why Our Values Need EDI Data to Come Alive

As we adapt for what’s to come, who we are and what we stand for won’t change. Our motto – Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity – continues to guide us as we chart our next chapter as a globally recognised civic university. But here’s the truth: we cannot fully live these values without robust Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) data. Why? Because values without evidence risk becoming aspirations rather than actions.

Lauren Stella: 200 years of EDI Data Workshop and the Importance of Representation through Data

Lauren Stella: 200 years of EDI Data Workshop and the Importance of Representation through Data

I am the Data Analyst Assistant working within the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Directorate. In this blog post, I will re-cap on the “200 years of EDI Data Workshop” I presented alongside Sami Karamalla-Gaiballa (Data Analyst Lead and EDI Partner) in our EDI Conference in June. As we celebrate 200 years of the University of Manchester, this workshop was purposed to demonstrate how data collection has changed over the past 200 years using examples of the UK Census and our own University.