Harassment reporting and support
The University is committed to the prevention of harassment and bullying for all staff and students, and to providing effective reporting mechanisms. These are backed up by appropriate support for any staff and students who are affected by harassment and bullying incidents. You can find information on how to report incidents of harassment and bullying on the Bullying and Harassment pages.
Report and Support
The ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø has an online tool for staff, students, and visitors to report incidences of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and other inappropriate conduct.
This is called .
Users of this online tool can report incidents with contact details to receive support from the University or incidents can be reported anonymously.
D&I-specific harassment and discrimination considerations
As colleagues will be aware, work is underway to action the recommendations arising from the University’s Race Equality Review. Recommendation 16 specifically relates to:
"Policies relating to discrimination and racial harassment: include links to specific examples of discriminatory behaviours in policies and training relating to race equality and racial harassment, which will support a shared understanding of racism and specific forms of discrimination and harassment, including anti-Blackness, antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc.”
As a first step, and in order to support a shared understanding of racism and specific forms of discrimination and harassment, including anti-Blackness, antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc, below sets out some useful web resources and links to other reference points for colleagues and students who would like to read more information about diversity and inclusion and who wish to learn more about different types of potentially discriminatory conduct.
Our responsibilities are legislated for by the , which includes a list of protected characteristics (see below) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission provides a useful .
Definitions of the different types of discrimination feature within our Equal Opportunities Policy, which is currently under a routine review. As this site is developed we will look to include some examples of discriminatory conduct with reference to our own University context and our expectations about culture and behaviours to further address recommendation 16 and will make colleagues aware of updates via the Staff Portal.
Below are the characteristics protected under the Equality Act, with links to potential useful reference sources should you want to find out more. (Please note that the University takes no responsibility for the content of these external sites.)
You might also want to take a look at the . Advance HE is a member-led, sector-owned charity, which incorporates the former Equality Challenge Unit. The organisation works with institutions and higher education across the world to improve higher education for staff, students and society and is responsible for equality charters such as the and .
Age
Age discrimination can also be called ageism.
Age UK is a well-known charity and you can find more on their website, alongside other resources.
Disability
You may have seen the terms disablism and ableism when reading about disability issues. The disability equality charity in England and Wales, Scope, has more on their website.
Find out more about the University’s Staff Disability and Neurodiversity Network.
If you have a disability or health condition is a publicly funded employment support programme that aims to help more disabled people start or stay in work.
Gender reassignment
The government website features pages for employers on preventing discrimination including some useful information on .
There is guidance on the University D&I pages on Trans and Gender Identity: Supporting information and procedures for staff and students as well as Provision of Gender Neutral Toilets.
Marriage and civil partnership
Citizens advice and the government web pages are both sources of further information about marriage and civil partnership:
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Pregnancy and maternity
The University has Family Leave Procedures and Guidance and the University’s Parent and Family Network. The network was set up in 2019 to be a source of information sharing and support, and holds regular events with invited speakers on relevant topics as well as offering a Teams site for questions and sharing resources.