DMU is proud of its diverse staff and student community and is committed to addressing racial inequality. As such, we’re committed to the Race Equality Charter Mark, a framework from Advance HE, which supports to improve progression, success and representation of BAME staff and students in higher education.
As part of this work, we would like to invite all staff and students to complete a short anonymous online survey developed by Advance HE on race and ethnicity within DMU. We would like to encourage all staff and students to complete the survey regardless of your race or ethnicity as we welcome a diverse range of viewpoints, and this will assist us in our analysis. Please be assured that your responses will be anonymous; only the Market Insight team will have access to survey results directly, which will then be developed into a report for the Race Equality Board to consider.
The survey asks you to rate and describe your experiences. The results will help us to gain current insight, plan and implement improvements in the DMU services to all our staff and students. To supplement the survey, we will also be holding focus groups with staff and students during the next academic year; please do look out for future communications on this.
In addition to this, we will also be holding listening sessions for Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff (due to take place in June) to provide you with a safe and informal space to share your thoughts, reflections and lived experiences as a member of staff at DMU.
The themes that emerge from the listening sessions along with the outcomes of this survey will help to form the basis for a series of roadshows (due to take place this autumn) focussing on matters of race at the university and the activities and behaviour changes we would need to continue, enhance, change or develop to help us to continue to build an anti-racist university.
The survey, which takes around 10-15 minutes to complete, can be found here and will be open until 5pm on Monday 7 June 2021. Please do share this survey link with colleagues and fellow students and encourage them to take part.
Kaushika Patel, Deputy PVC Equality, Diversity and Inclusion said: “This survey is vitally important for us to understand the views of our staff and student community on race and ethnicity at DMU; it, along with the listening sessions, the roadshows and focus groups, allows us to gather a wide-ranging picture of what is happening, so we can address issues raised and implement working initiatives to eradicate racial inequality. I would like to encourage all staff and students at DMU, regardless of your race or ethnicity, to take part.”
If you have any queries about the survey or would like to join the BAME Staff Network, please email equality@dmu.ac.uk.
For further information on the Race Equality Charter mark, please click here.
Posted on Monday 10 May 2021