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School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

Committee and Working Groups

Terms of Reference

The Committee aims to identify and spread best practice in support of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. Read the full SBBS EDIC Terms of Reference [PDF 127KB].

Co-Leads:

Working groups:

Working group (Shortcut used in the Action Plan)	Working Group Lead	Working Group Members	Other SBBS staff/students involved
1. Governance, policies and data (Governance WG)	Christophe Eizaguirre	Catherine Murray Guifen Chen Nadine Lavan	Richard Pickersgill
2. Academic staff recruitment, development and progression (Academic WG)	Babis Rallis Greg Szulgit	All HoDs & HoS Mark Maconochie	DTP Group Richard Pickersgill
3. Professional staff recruitment, development and progression (PS WG)	Ulriche Prempeh-Tawiah	Amanda Williams Petra Ungerer Catherine Murray	Staff Support Officer Sarah Heskett
4. UG student recruitment and career support (UG WG)	John Apergis-Schoute Alena Galilee		UG Focus Group (+ student volunteers)
5. PG student recruitment and career development (PG WG)	Matteo Fumagalli Ian McFadden	Pavel Kratina Yeahji Jeong Emma Hayashibara
6. PDRA recruitment and career development (PDRA WG)	Ozge Eyice-Broadbent Vicencio Oostra (from Spring 2025)	Stephania L. Tsola (PDRA rep) Chema Martin (Interim)
7. SBBS culture (Culture WG)	Giorgia Michelini Lilah Glazer
8. Work-life balance	Nathan Emery Margherita Malanchini	Petra Ungerer
9. Technical staff development (Technical WG)	Petra Ungerer (Interim)	Sian Cooper (Maternity Leave from 25th April 2024) Petra to ask new member of technical staff to join in late summer.
10. Intersectionality WG	Ruth Rose Isabel Palacios		PG and PDRA (TBC): Bea Fernandez-Fernandez James Gilbert Kero Guynes

Action Plans:

Minutes from Athena SWAN self assessment team and EDI committee meetings:

2024 Minutes

2023 Minutes

2022 Minutes

2021 Minutes

2020 Minutes

2019 Minutes

2018 Minutes

EDIC Minutes November 2018 [PDF 76KB]
EDIC Minutes October 2018 [PDF 70KB]
EDIC Minutes June 2018 [PDF 89KB]
EDIC Minutes March 2018 - This was not a formal meeting, EDIC reviewed the Athena SWAN application
EDIC Minutes January 2018 [PDF 134KB]

2017 Minutes

2016 Minutes

2015 Minutes

2014 Minutes

2013 Minutes

2012 Minutes