Equity & Diversity

The Equity and Diversity Committee works to ensure that the Department of Environment and Geography embraces, celebrates and raises awareness of equity, inclusion and diversity. We identify barriers that prevent us from reaching our full potential as a department and create solutions to overcome those barriers.

E&D is embedded throughout the department and a standing item on all departmental committees.

Our Terms of Reference (ToR) document (including membership list) was last updated in September 2024.

We have enthusiastically adopted the Athena SWAN charter of gender equality. We are delighted to receive the Silver Athena SWAN Award in December 2022. This is in recognition of the support we offer to all staff, especially female staff in the Department. For instance, with departmental support, there has been a significant increase of senior female academics (Reader and above) from 1 FTE to 7.1 FTE over the last few years. Over the same period, the department has also seen an increase of female professors from 0% to 43% of professors.

The Department holds a Silver Athena SWAN award, received in December 2022.

The Department’s Silver Award submission documents are available from the University Research Athena Swan pages

You can also find out more on the departmental webpages

EDC's World Mental Health Day activities in October 2023.