Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) & Intersectionality

What's this survey about?

We will provide you with scenarios depicting issues of intersectionality across race, gender, religion, sexual orientation and age. Each scenario will be followed by 2 questions which will allow us to compare the choices your institution might make when faced with these issues, against your own choices.

This survey is part of the data collection for a larger project on race and intersectionality. Any personal details (such as your email, job title, and institution) you are asked to provide in this survey are confidential and this information will only used for the lottery draw of £100, which is offered as a small incentive for completion of this survey. Your responses will be anonymised and will not be matched against any of these details. For more information on how your data will be protected please click here

This survey will close on the 15 Sep 2022. If you consent to provide your email address, you will be invited to attend an exclusive webinar (for free) on data visualisation and storyboarding run by a data analyst. We will email the event details at the end of Sep 2022.

Please keep in touch via Twitter or on the project webpage for updates on the findings. Thank you in advance for participating!

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* 1. Institution

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* 2. Job title

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* 3. Please confirm you have read the instructions and are consenting to participate in this study?

Yes

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* 4. What are the TOP THREE issues your institution is currently challenged by under the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) agenda?

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* 5. Consider your department has increasingly been making efforts to celebrate the diversity of staff members. However, one year during in the peak of a busy teaching term the Holy Month of Ramadan is observed during Black History Month. What is your current department likely to do?

All staff (regardless of background) are invited to discuss the planning and celebration of both events

Responsibility falls on Black colleagues to organise BHM event, and Muslim colleagues to organise Eid celebrations

There is little to no effort / motivation to organise either event for staff

Your Line Manager makes the call on how to proceed with both celebrations

Something else?

Please give details

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* 6. Now considering the same scenario, if the planning was left up to you what would you choose to do?

You ask your Line Manager to make the call on how to proceed with both celebrations

Ask Black colleagues to organise BHM event, and Muslim colleagues to organise Eid celebrations

Go to all staff (regardless of background) to discuss the planning and celebration of both events

Make little to no effort to organise either event for staff

Something else?

Please give details

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* 7. A heterosexual white female colleague informs you that a black female colleague has deliberately touched her hair without her consent. The white colleague attended an EDI training course where there was a discussion about the ‘politics of black/African hair’ and that it was not okay to touch black hair without consent. The white female asks your HR officer what she has experienced and the likely response from your institution might be

Non-sexual female to female fondness / bonding

Inappropriate touching / harassment

A micro-aggression as a white woman

Something else?

Please give details

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* 8. Considering the same scenario above, the white female colleague asks your opinion of what she has just experienced?

A micro-aggression as a white woman

Non-sexual female to female fondness / bonding

Inappropriate touching / harassment

Something else?

Please give details

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* 9. Two weeks later, the same white female colleague informs you that a disabled Asian male has deliberately touched her hair without her consent. The white female goes to HR and asks them what she has just experienced, what do you think their response is likely to be?

Non-sexual male to female fondness / bonding

A micro-aggression as a white woman

Inappropriate touching / harassment

Something else?

Please specify

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* 10. Same situation above, it's two weeks later, the same white female colleague informs you about a disabled Asian male who touched her hair without her consent. The white female colleague asks your opinion on what she has experienced, what would you say to her?

A micro-aggression as a white woman

Non-sexual male to female fondness / bonding

Inappropriate touching / harassment

Something else?

Please specify

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* 11. Your university has agreed to remove all gender specific toilets to uni-sex facilities as an action to support LGBTQI+ staff and students. The benefits of uni-sex toilets are that transitioning persons are likely to feel more comfortable using facilities that are gender neutral. What would you perceive you institution would think is its biggest risk by making this decision?

Heightened social anxieties about awkward uni-sex toilets

Safety concerns or increase risk of harassment or assault with uni-sex toilets

Religious beliefs might prohibit the use of uni-sex / shared private spaces

Something else?

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* 12. Consider the above situation regarding uni-sex toilets. What would you perceive is the biggest risk by making this decision?

Safety concerns or increase risk of harassment or assault with uni-sex toilets

Religious beliefs might prohibit the use of uni-sex / shared private spaces

Heightened social anxieties about awkward uni-sex toilets

Something else?

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* 13. A new policy is issued at your university for diverse hiring panels. Mark is a white male with a physical disability and Kenisha is a black female. Both have noticed each other being asked to sit on multiple hiring panels beyond their department or expertise scope. Each have lodged a complaint with their respective line managers and this is brought to the attention of senior leadership, what is likely to happen?

Senior leadership issue training with HR for all staff to inform them about their duties to uphold EDI principles on hiring panels

Line managers are asked to workload Mark and Kenisha for hiring panels with their consent

Mark and Kenisha are asked to engage with HR on designing a better approach for representing diversity or approaching staff to be on panels in terms of their duties on the panel

Something else?

Give details

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* 14. Both Mark and Kenisha informed you that they lodged a complaint with their respective manager, and they ask if you were their manager what would you do?

Press senior leadership to issue training with HR for all staff to inform them about their duties to uphold EDI principles on hiring panels

Instruct line managers to workload Mark and Kenisha for hiring panels with their consent

Approach Mark and Kenisha and ask if they would like to engage with HR on designing a better approach for representing diversity or approaching staff to be on panels in terms of their duties on the panel

Something else?

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* 15. Your university is setting up a mentorship programme and you are asked to participate as both a mentee and a mentor. The aim of the mentorship is to encourage more ethnically diverse connections across university staff as a means to educate staff about cultural and racial strengths and challenges. How might your institution set up this programme?

Academic and professional staff are paired by ethnical differences across the university

Academic to academic and professional to professional staff are paired by seniority so a junior & senior staff pair, matched by ethnic and gender differences

Academic and professional staff are paired with individuals within their school or faculty, with the focus being cross-programmes or sub-departments or small teams regardless of seniority, ethnicity, age or ability

Something else?

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* 16. You have heard of the new mentorship programme to encourage ethnically diverse connections across university staff as a means to educate staff about cultural and racial strengths and challenges. How might you set this programme up if you were leading on this strategy?

Academic and professional staff are paired by ethnical differences across the university

Academic to academic and professional to professional staff are paired by seniority so a junior & senior staff pair, matched by ethnic and gender differences

Something else?

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* 17. Consider there are several EDI development programmes being supported by your institution both internally and externally administered, however you are limited to only participating on one at your institution which programme is your senior leadership likely to approve for staff training?

External programme - Aurora programme (gender equality & leadership)

External programme - Diversifying Leadership (Black and Minority Ethnic leadership programme)

Internal programme - Staff education series on challenging racism (micro-aggressions, white fragility etc)

Internal programme - Mentorship programme (working closer with colleagues who share similar interests in championing equality at the university)

Something else?

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* 18. Of all the EDI development programmes being supported by your institution both internally and externally administered, imagine the funding is limited and you are charged with choosing ONLY ONE for your university, which programme will you choose?

External programme - Aurora programme (gender equality & leadership)

External programme - Diversifying Leadership (Black and Minority Ethnic leadership programme)

Internal programme - Staff education series on challenging racism (micro-aggressions, white fragility etc)

Internal programme - Mentorship programme (working closer with colleagues who share similar interests in championing equality at the university)

Something else?

Give details

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* 19. Jan is a retired academic who has recently secured a position as a Visiting Lecturer in your team. The technology for logging student attendance and online marking has significantly changed since Jan was a practicing academic. Despite being given an induction, Jan often frequently makes mistakes, and this has led to extended meeting times, inaccuracies on student profiles and sometimes accidental deletion of essential shared files. If you raised this with your line manager, what are they likely to do?

Jan being offered an alternative system of book-keeping and logging of content which is then passed to another member of the team (admin / academic) for uploading

Jan being asked to repeat the induction perhaps with additional support from a younger technologically-savvy team member

Jan is left struggling through the term with minimal support until she adapts to the new system

Something else?

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* 20. Jan the retired academic has shared her challenges with you and asks if you were her manager, what would you advise in this situation?

Jan is asked to repeat the induction perhaps with additional support from a younger technologically-savvy team member

Jan is offered an alternative system of book-keeping and logging of content which is then passed to another member of the team (admin / academic) for uploading (perhaps even you)

Jan is left struggling through the term with minimal support realistically as there is not capacity into workloads for this help to be provided, so she has to adapt to the new system at her own pace

Something else?

Give details

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* 21. Would you like to be considered for the following (please tick all that appeal)?

£100 lottery draw (announced late Sept 2022)

Free webinar on data visualisation training

Attend online webinar on project findings (late Sept 2022)

None of the above

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* 22. Email to contact you about your selected information

Email Address