Contacts and Resources
This page summarises some EDI contacts and networks here at Newcastle University, along with some further resources to engage with.
Central EDI Team
The Central Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team provides both strategic advice and practical support to the whole University. They play a lead role in the coordination of accreditation programmes and ensure we achieve compliance with our statutory requirements. You can contact the team via email.
The University encourages and supports a Networks and Support Groups for colleagues. Networks are groups ran by colleagues, for colleagues. You can become a member, join a mailing list and attend events across the year. Find out about the different networks.
The Carers’ Network
The Carers' Network offers support to colleagues or PGR students who are carers through informal events. You are a carer if you provide care and support to a relative, partner, child, friend or neighbour who has a disability, health condition, is frail due to old age or is finding it hard to cope for other reasons.
The Disability Interest Group
The Disability Interest Group (DIG) is for anyone who wants to help promote a positive, safe and respectful environment for disabled students, colleagues and visitors. They aim to promote positive attitudes towards disability and encourage good practice within the University.
NU Women
NU Women is a network that is open to all women who work at the University. The network provides a forum for women to meet, share ideas, provide mutual support for their career development, and to feed into the University issues of concern and interest to women colleagues.
NU Parents Network
NU Parents’ Network aims to build and oversee an interactive and supportive network for parents at Newcastle University, and to be a voice for parents with children of all ages at institutional level, in support of Newcastle University’s vision to become a family friendly centre of excellence.
NU-REN Network
The NU-REN (Newcastle University Race Equality) Network aims to create awareness of colour issues, and provide a body which members can go to for support, as well as giving a voice to ethnic minority groups. They strongly believe that for every University employee to reach their full potential, there must be no fear of discrimination or prejudice.
Rainbow@NCL
Rainbow@NCL is a colleague and PGR network, established by and for members of the University community, with the purpose of challenging heteronormativity, supporting LGBTQ+ colleagues and students, and promoting inclusion of people of diverse genders, sexualities, and relationships.
NU TechNet
NU TechNet is a colleague network run by Technicians, for Technicians. It provides a supportive network for Technicians at NU, give them a voice, and share good news and best practice across the faculties. They have several active working groups, one of which is focused on EDI issues.
To help support you embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into your daily practice as a research and as a colleague or student of the University, there are a list of general resources below for you to be aware of and engage with. Keeping up to date with annual reports will inform you about diversity issues and reading newsletters will make you aware of events and activities you can get involved with to support EDI.
- The Annual EDI Report is produced and uploaded to the EDI webpage.
- The most recent University Pay Gap reports are now included within the Annual EDI Report. You can find previous Pay Gap Reports are available on the internal intranet.
- Newcastle University colleagues can also access the internal EDI Intranet Page.
- The EDI team also produce an EDI Newsletter.
- The University Diversity Calendar is published at the start of each academic year
- Information on the variety of student support services is available via the Student Wellbeing page.
- Population Health Sciences Institute (PHSI) hosts an EDI Blog and Book Club that colleagues can join.
- Newcastle University's Library - EDI Library.
- Language and Gender Inclusivity Guide - Newcastle University School of Modern Languages.
Some further resources beyond Newcastle are listed below.
- There is an EDI Resource Bank sponsored by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and University of Nottingham, which also provides a searchable database around the full range of protected characteristics, which may find useful to browse.
- The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) has a Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resource Hub which is a collection of resources will help you to progress EDI and drive positive change.
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) have produced a Research Design Service Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Toolkit. This resource has been developed to support researchers to better understand how to embed EDI in research design and to meet the NIHR’s EDI requirements.