Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
LISS DTP has a strong commitment to promoting and supporting equality, diversity and inclusion and is developing its policy and practice in this area. It is committed to the provision of equality of opportunity for all applicants, students and staff and to a community in which all people can learn, work and interact freely without fear of discrimination, prejudice or harassment. All applicants, students, staff, supervisors and stakeholders will be treated equitably and will not be accorded less favourable treatment on the grounds of: gender, marital / civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity or national origins, religion or similar philosophical belief, spent criminal conviction, age or disability.
LISS DTP has a working group developing its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. This will be established in the context of the UKRI policy on equality, diversity and inclusion and HEI and non-HEI partners’ policies and informed by the Leading Routes report (2019) The Broken Pipeline: barriers to Black PhD students accessing research council funding
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We have continued to offer ringfenced studentships for home fee status applicants the LISS DTP Open Competition, available for applicants of colour, LGBTQAI+ students and those with caring responsibilities. These scholarships have seen a steady rise in the diversity of our PhD cohort. We are keen to increase the diversity of supervisors, and ideally at least one supervisor on a students supervisory team must not be a professor. Alongside this, we continue to support a parents and carers group that supports students with similar circumstances and provides regular training. Finally, we have instituted EDI training for students and supervisors.
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