Information Services has recently obtained a variety of “First in Family” badges, as part of the University’s First in Family campaign. Staff who were the first in their family to attend University may choose to wear them, to help raise awareness and be a friendly face for our current first-generation students. The badges will be […]

I recently attended the Advance HE EDI Conference in Liverpool, to gather ideas and hear about the excellent EDI work happening across the HE sector. It was brilliant to see such a diverse range of delegates and speakers, hearing perspectives across all genders, ethnicities, and backgrounds. The overarching theme of the conference was belonging, and […]

Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre   Information Services hosted a number of events to celebrate International Women’s Day this year. The day began with the opening of the Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in the Outreach Centre at Holyrood Campus. The lecture theatre was named after child suffragette and piper, Bessie, as part of our tradition of […]

Happy World Menopause Day! The PlayFair Steps celebrates World Menopause Day every year on the 18th October, with a particular focus on Menopause in the Workplace, and how this impacts staff in ISG. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) ran a survey of working women aged 40 to 60 in early October 2023, and 67% […]

Information Services organises an Ada Lovelace Day event every year, and this year was no different. Ada Lovelace Day was held on the 10th October 2023, and the event had nearly 30 attendees and was hugely successful. The event consisted of a series of lightning talks, badge-making and colouring-in, and a Wikipedia editing event, see […]