The University is committed to advancing race equality and successfully received Advance HE's Race Equality Charter (REC) Bronze Award in 2020. We will renew our award in 2025 and would like to hear from our students, so we can better understand the culture and experience of our students about race equality on campus.
Your voices drive change, and together we can work towards building a university where every student feel that they are supported and can achieve their best. Nearly 150 actions in our Race Equality Charter Action Plan 2020 were developed from inputs of over 5,000 students and staff.
During 2020 - 2025, the current Race Equality Charter cycle, we have managed to:
- Become the second most ethnically diverse student population as a Russell Group institution outside of London
- Diversify the catering provision on campus with the opening of new outlets to encompass different cousine
- Increase the library’s bibliographic offering of authors from around the world
- Create initiatives to successfully close the black graduate employability gap
- Complete a 3-year sport engagement analysis with actions to diversify sport participation
- Create a training module on how to navigate living in diverse groups with intercultural competency skills
- Work with student groups to expand cultural celebration and festivals on campus
- Open new prayer facilities on campus
- Established the Belong at Birmingham (BAB) initiative to co-create student guides with lifehacks about living in Birmingham for international students
- Offer the 125th Anniversary Black British Researcher scholarships to address underrepresentation in the academic pipeline
Remember, this journey towards race equality is ongoing, and we will continue to listen, learn, and act.
You have the opportunity to shape our next steps in creating a more inclusive experience for our students from all racial backgrounds. Your voice will help us identify what we need to work on over the next 5 years and what our priorities should be. Please share your feedback via the REC survey below and by registering for REC focus groups.
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