Staff and students from across all four campuses of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine celebrated LGBT STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) day on 5 July 2019. Inspired by Pride in STEM, a charitable trust run by an independent group of LGBT+ scientists & engineers from around the world, staff and students were invited to… Continue Reading College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine celebrates LGBT STEM day

Edinburgh Festival Fringe is soon upon us, and with a vast array of shows scheduled, it will be hard to choose what you might see… That is where we can help! Join Loud & Proud, Scotland’s LGBT choir, for a fantastic night of a cappella music.  Loud & Proud’s repertoire is as diverse as their… Continue Reading Loud & Proud at the Fringe

Emily Ford-Halliday, ECA Fashion Lecturer & SPN Design Volunteer, has had two of her ‘Fashion in the Dark’ films selected to be part of this incredible exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. The opening on 24 May was a great success and the exhibition is now open to the public until 20 October. Go… Continue Reading Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk

The Staff Pride Network undertook this survey with the aim of improving our organisation and future events. Thank you for helping us learn by completing it. 80 people responded to the survey and answered 16 questions that touched upon attendance to events, the reasons why you find this network important, communication, approachability, and representation. You… Continue Reading Staff Pride Network Survey Report 2019

This article is written by EUSA. The Staff Pride Network are in support of this Rally for Trans Solidarity which is organised by EUSA. “Following a request by the University to edit the contents of this post we have chosen instead to remove it as we are unwilling to edit the words of others.”  

Prior to the Pride Edinburgh march on Saturday 22 June, we’ll be meeting at Levels Cafe on Holyrood Road at 11.30am and plan to head to the march at 12ish for a 12.30 start. Join us at Levels so you can find us easily. We are making placards for our beautiful posters so do let… Continue Reading Pride Edinburgh 2019

Join us for the launch of ‘Evidence Base: Growing the Big Grant Club’ on the 21 of June 2019 in the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Evidence Base formed in 2018 with funding from the EPSRC to promote and execute a systems based approach to understanding issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in STEM. “Growing the… Continue Reading Growing the Big Grant Club

Recently, University of Edinburgh staff, including Andy Kordiak and Peter Hayakawa from the University Procurement Office, participated in intensive trainings and discussions on ways to promote equality through public procurement for those who share protected characteristics (including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual… Continue Reading Promoting equality through sustainable procurement

The University is required by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to submit statistical returns to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), under category labels set down by HESA. Institutions are now able to report staff sex under three categories: ‘male’, ‘female’ and ‘other’. Although the naming of this last category is far from… Continue Reading HESA data category to recognise non-binary identities

Thanks if you have already put up Staff Pride Network posters around your building, on noticeboards, in staff rooms etc… Posters share our common message, and it would be great to have these displayed in all buildings around the University. We have printed 300 posters, and there are still plenty to collect and distribute, so… Continue Reading University-wide poster display