Example Initiatives for Culture

✓ Initiate and implement a project to ensure student contact time, assessment timing, and workload are consistent with a healthy work-life balance.

✓ Explore good practices and innovations across EHS around internationalisation and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to share practices and enhance the student and staff experience. [UL 1.1.4; UL 3.1.2; UL 3.2.1; UL 5.2.1]

✓ The unified workload allocation model adopted by EHS will ensure that time allocations and workload expectations are communicated and implemented carefully [UL 5.1.1]; The unified workload allocation model adopted by EHS will include time allocation for CPD for all staff [UL 5.1.1]

✓ Ensure that all staff are reminded to take and log their annual leave via the CORE portal [UL 5.1.1]

✓ Identify and consider how best to acknowledge staff and student contributions towards ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion across EHS [UL 5.2.5]

✓ Provide flexibility and accessibility in programme delivery, including introducing PT fees and stackability [UL 4.1.2; UL 4.2.1]

✓ For EHS specific administrative processes, develop and publish process and pathway information (i.e. research recruitment; approvals; etc) to ensure clarity for all staff [UL 5.1.2]

✓ Review best practice on student representation on groups and committees, and put in place an action plan to ensure that student’s voice is heard in EHS [UL 5.2.5]

“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”

Ahmed (2014)