Imperial As One

Our Purpose

Launched in 2005, as an advisory group to the Rector, Imperial As One is Imperial’s award-winning race equity network for staff and postgraduate students.  Imperial As One champions an inclusive, respectful, and equitable workplace culture. We support all Global Majority staff and postgraduate students by raising awareness, building community, and providing a safe space to connect, be heard, and access resources.

Imperial As One champions an inclusive, respectful, and equitable workplace culture.

Who we are

Our committee, made up of lived experience experts and allies, advises the university on policies, practices, and behaviours that impact inclusion. We represent member voices in surveys, policy development, and strategic initiatives, including Imperial’s Race Equality Charter work.

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All are invited to be part of this community, allies included.

Imperial As One Committee

If you would like to get more involved with the group, please contact a Committee member listed below, or email Imperial-As-One

What we do

From major initiatives to local connections, we create spaces for connection all year round: 

The Imperial As One Media Academy delivers expert communications training for network members. This award-winning programme tackles under-representation in STEM communication, and the IAO Media Academy team wrote a piece for Times Higher Education. The IAO Media Academy was shortlisted for the 2024 THE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and in 2025 went one step further by winning the ‘Public Sector Campaign Of The Year Award’ at The Pros Awards!

The Beyond Ethnicity Career Conference (BECC)  is an annual one-day event open to everyone at early career stage including research staff, professional, technical and operational staff, and MSc and PhD students. 

#BlackLivesMatter Statement

Racism is real. In America, in the UK and around the world.
I can’t breathe.
To be witness to the televised murder of another person because of the colour of his skin.
To see the video spread out across the internet is heartbreakingly sad. It’s terrifying, brutal and dehumanising. This is not a film! This is one of life’s inequitable realities.
For years people of colour have spoken out against systemic racism that we live and breathe daily. We're told so often that we're just making it up. We're playing the race card.
Racism is not a game it’s real, pervasive and takes away people’s lives. It’s everyone’s responsibility to examine their practice, check their behaviour and learn that there’s more that unites us than divides.
No, it's not a chip on our shoulders, it's your knee on our necks.
I can’t breathe.
#BlackLivesMatter

Our full statement was also quoted in the article Imperial shows solidarity with protesters against racial injustice.

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre team have created a resource page on How to be a White Ally. 

The suggestions help to explain what it means to be a white ally and give examples of positive actions that can be taken to combat racism; in its explicit or subtle forms. They are drawn from many different sources. Although they focus on ways to support Black colleagues and students, equally they can help to support all people of colour within the Imperial community.