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Information and resources

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.

Communications

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

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.

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.

Learning and teaching

ICT offers Inclusive Technology software recommendations to support students and staff.

The Educational Development Unit offers guidance on inclusive learning and teaching as part of its teaching toolkit.

The Department of Mechanical has made available the teaching resources they developed after integrating EDI content into mandatory Professional Skills module and providing an optional EDI in Engineering module.

Research Environment Toolkit

The Research Office has developed a toolkit to support grant applicants, in the context of their own bids, to articulate Imperial’s positive research culture and present the policies and initiatives that Imperial has in place or is developing.