Information and resources

We are developing a range of resources to help staff and students better understand issues, learn from best practice, and start taking positive steps to proactively support equality, diversity and inclusion. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with EDIC.

EDI themes and areas

Disability and neurodiversity

We have brought together information and resources to help raise awareness and understanding.

Gender equality

Discover more about Imperial's work on gender equality.

LGBTQ+ equality

Imperial has developed a trans staff policy and a range of resources, including suggestions for LGBTQ+ allies and guidance on pronouns.

Race equality

Find out about Imperial's work on the Race Equality Charter, training available to you, and what positive actions you can take as an ally.

Religion and belief

Imperial has developed guidance to raise awareness and support staff celebrating Ramadan, Eid, Diwali, and Bandi Chhor Divas.

Other EDI information and resources

Communications

We have a guide for writing about ethnicity, intended for all staff and students writing official communications on behalf of the College.

If you are responsible for producing or editing content, then please follow Imperial's accessibility advice. We also have specific accessibility guidance for websites as well as training for web editors.

You may also find these video conferencing guidelines useful on how to make online interactions more accessible.

Equality Impact Assessments

The EDI Centre has developed guidance and a template to help you carry out an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA).

An EIA can help you ensure that decisions or changes are made fairly and do inadvertently disadvantage any protected group. An EIA should help you pre-empty any issues and take action to mitigate where necessary.

Staff recruitment

The HR Recruitment Hub has advice and guidance on Inclusive Recruitment for each step of the process process. For example, Imperial uses Textio to draft more inclusive job adverts.

All staff involved in recruitment are expected to have attended the online recruitment and section training course, and we also encourage you to complete our online   unconscious bias training.

The Academic Recruitment at Imperial - case studies and toolkit exists to help highlight existing good practice.

Unconscious bias

Everyone has unconscious or implicit biases. These can influence our attitudes, behaviours and decisions. By increasing our awareness, we can start to mitigate against biases.

We have produced some guidance as a starting point to understanding unconscious bias.