Laura Cragg: Importance of Charter marks at the University
June is chartermark month on the University’s 2024 Diversity calendar. 2023 was an important year with the submission of our Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter Silver applications, our Disability Confident Level 3 application and our Stonewall Workplace Equality Index application. These submissions reflect on progress made but also highlight ongoing challenges.
Sarah Finn-Sell, Michelle Almeida and Catherine Stull: Parents and Carers Peer Support Staff Network Group and UN Global Day of Parents 2024
With over 140 staff members we are an ever-growing staff network to facilitate peer support and communication between parents and carers across the university in whatever form ‘parenting’ takes. We welcome all: mums, dads, adoptive parents, foster parents/carers,...
Rachel Heyes: What are Staff Networks?
If you're new to the concept of staff network groups, you're not alone. Before joining the University of Manchester, I hadn't encountered them either. These networks are invaluable resources, offering peer support to staff who may face marginalisation or oppression....
Gloria Muñoz Romero and Laura Howard: Making new connections at work – Join a staff network
According to the organization Mental Health UK, one in five workers experience a sense of loneliness at work (Mental Health UK 2022). With those from minority ethnic groups being at greater risk of experiencing feelings of isolation.
Lauren Bramley: March was Endometriosis and PCOS Awareness Month!
To start Endometriosis awareness month, the Endometriosis & PCOS Network hosted their first ever Endometriosis & PCOS Awareness Event on Friday 1st March, which was attended by 80 UoM colleagues both in person and online!
Late-stage autistic diagnosis, employment and burnout
In our EDI Blog this month, Matthew Harrison, Co-Chair of the Neurodivergent Staff Network shares his lived experience of autism from diagnosis, the impact of autism in the workplace, burnout, and the importance of connection that he has found in the Neurodiversity Network.
Stephanie Danson: Active Bystander
This month in the EDI Diversity Calendar is focused on Active Bystander. At The University of Manchester, we want to encourage an environment of inclusion where everyone feels valued and respected and can work and study in a safe and supportive environment. Part of this is to encourage staff and students to challenge and report problematic behaviour such as microaggressions, discrimination, bullying and harassment and hate crime.
Lauren Stella: A story for Inspiration
My mum tells me, “Every individual within those generations had a dream. It’s whether or not the environment inhibits that dream… but their dreams live on through future generations”.
Eve Hughes: International Women’s Day – A March Celebration
March hosts the global celebration of women, International Women’s Day. It allows us to celebrate women from a diverse range of backgrounds in all their deserving glory. In order to fully get into the spirit of International Women’s Day, I’ve been reading and indulging in a lot of media that particularly celebrates women and will be reviewing a book and a film that especially stood out to me.
Emma Shields: International Women’s Day 2024 – history of women and worker’s rights which inspires inclusivity
Manchester has a rich history relating to women and worker’s rights. To me, these rights are historically analogous; International Women’s Day started as a protest by women workers over unfair conditions in the workplace.
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