Equality and Diversity Essentials - Covering the main principles of equality and diversity and legislation, how equality and diversity impacts on the University and members of the University community, and key initiatives and resources available.
Understanding Unconscious or Implicit Bias - Introduces implicit bias and the impact it can have and explores situations where individuals own unconscious bias might affect their ability to make objective decisions or judgements.
Session on Race Awareness - The session helps to increase the understanding of race and racism and what it means to become an antiracist ally. It aims to enhance participants’ confidence in speaking about race, to provide tools to build capacity to challenge racism.
Where do you draw the line - This training is currently being rolled out in institutions. It gives individual departments the opportunity to undertake a collective analysis of the individual and contextual factors that might create and perpetuate a work environment in which harassment and bullying occur and empowers participants to work collaboratively to address this.
Bespoke Training - Training can also be designed and delivered on request. Please contact Equality and Diversity.
Personal and Professional Development
Managing challenging conversations- Online training with practical steps to help with better handling of conversations and, where possible, get the right outcome.
Giving feedback- Online training full of key tips to help provide feedback that is supportive, constructive and helpful. It also focuses on how to avoid common mistakes when giving feedback to others and how to receive feedback well.
Communication Essentials - Online training that introduces the key concepts of communication skills through a variety of media, offering those new to this topic a solid grounding in the essentials, as well as a great refresher for more experienced communicators
Communication Skills Introduction "Are you receiving me?" - To increase confidence and skills in one-to-one communication through a highly participative course. Provides the opportunity to practice communication skills on a one-to-one basis.
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The Race Equality Network is a community for staff members who self-identify as being from a racial minority ethnic background and/or who have an interest in the topic of race and would like to contribute to anti-racism initiatives at the University.
