by Dr Allán Laville, Dean for Diversity and Inclusion & Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Nozomi Tolworthy, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor.
The D&I initiative fund supports bids that
a) involve innovative approaches to advancing D&I practice,
b) have a reach across the University and beyond, and
c) lead to meaningful impact by improving the lived experience of colleagues and students.
The successful bids in the 2020/21 Spring term round strongly meet the above criteria and advance our University D&I strategy. It was particularly nice to see many submissions aiming to advance our work in disability and neurodiversity.
Here you can view a list of the projects that received funding in the 2020/21 rounds and 2019/20 rounds. We would encourage individuals to get in touch with the central D&I Team or to those who led on these projects for further information and/or sharing best practice.
The following projects received funding in the 2020/21 round.
| Jia Hoong Ong, SPCLS, Autism Book Club (ABC) |
| Amanda Clarke, SAGES, Sharing Heritage through Diversity: The Festival Project |
| Hella Eckardt, SAGES, Diverse Archaologies |
| Anna Jones, MERL, 51 Voices – different voices |
| Marc Jacobs, IOE, Towards a Best Practice Model: BA Primary Education (IoE) Final Year students as mentoring partners to Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) Year 1 students embedding academic writing skills |
| Carolina Vasilikou, SBE, Architecture, The Neuro-atypical Hackathon Podcast event: Inclusive Wayfinding for adults with (dis)abilities |
| Shweta Band, Law, DI-Law-gues: Designing a pilot evidence-based support programme for improving undergraduate BAME student awarding gap at the School of Law |
| Matthew Windsor, Law, Locating Islam in the (Law School) Curriculum |
| Claire Collins, HBS, Forming a Group for the Dissemination of Gender Research |
| Claire Collins, HBS, Male Ally Training for the Women@Reading Network |
| Sarah Chorley, HBS, Networking Roulette |
| Eileen Hyder, CQSD, Promoting Race Equality in Higher Education: an edited UoR Anthology |
| Emma Snowden, Student Services, Career Diversity Champions R U Inspired? |
| Ciara McCabe, SPCLS, Showcasing the Barriers and Facilitators to University Entry for BAME vs White Reading Scholars |
| Ellen Pilsworth, SLL, DLC BAME and Talking Race meet-up |
| Jenny Chamarette, SACD, Dwoskin, disability and… |
| Kat Bicknell, SCFP, Establishing a BAME Student Network for Pharmacy Students |
The following projects received funding in the 2019/20 round.
| Jane Setter, SLL, Supporting successful BAME outcomes: Student life through a lens #2 |
| Suzy Tutchell, IoE, A Stitch in Time: Inclusive Threads of Learning |
| Mark Laynesmith, Chaplaincy, Interfaith Intern |
| Ludmilla Cerne and David Nutt, SCFP, Student-led activities for better integration of students from the NUIST-Reading Academy |
| Jennifer Scott and Sam Williams, SMPCS, International Women in Mathematics Day 2020 |
| Julie Farwell, SLL, Women’s Springboard 2019 cohort Termly Meetings |
| Sarah Cardey and Rebecca Jerrome, SAPD, Resources for decolonizing the curriculum |
| Yasmine Shamma, SLL, Revisionist Thinking: Fostering Inclusive Diversity
within the Curriculum, and Beyond |
| Eileen Hyder, CQSD, CQSD Diversity & Inclusion event: addressing ethnicity attainment differentials. |
| Calvin Smith, SMPCS, Hidden figures: putting people back into mathematics resources |
| Naomi Lebens, UMASCS, Drawing Diversity: Artist-in-Residence |
| Flavia Ghouri and Sophie Oduyale, SCFP, Setting up positive role models for the diverse body of students in Pharmacy |
| Nicola Abram, SLL, BAME students in English Literature: A Network |
| Matthew Windsor, School of Law, Decolonising the Legal Curriculum |
| Tony Capstick, SLL, Diversifying the curriculum: drawing on students’ linguistic and cultural heritage to develop intercultural awareness |
| Sedtin Wan, International Student Advisory Team, Gingerbread Village |
| Sedtin Wan, International Student Advisory Team, Global Buddies |
| Elizabeth Conaghan, School of Law, “The Disappearance of Miss Bebb” – a play about challenging inequalities. |
| Eleanor Draycott, IT, DiversIT: Diversity in Tech Event |
| Ellen Hackl, Technical Services, Making practical classes in Pharmacy Inclusive-by-Design. |
| Emma Butler, Careers, Identifying what support students with disabilities need with their career decisions and applications. |
| Jeanne-Louise Moys SACD; Richard Nunes HBS; Carolina Vasilikou, SBE, INCLUSIVE WAY HACKATHON: the design of everyday wayfinding in outdoor public environments. |
| Dr Rachael Neal and Rebecca Morgan, SAPD, Investigating effects of educational background and other D&I characteristics on student retention and attainment in SAPD UG programmes. |
| Dr Matthew McFrederick, FTT, Race and Performance Today |
| Dr Karen Jones, IoE, Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education |
| Liz Conaghan (School of Law) and Madeleine Davies (SLL), 100 Years of Women’s Voices |
| Sian Walsh, SBE, SBE Celebrating Diversity |
| Ruth Evans, SAGES, GES, Rights-based Mapping of Race and Religion Equalities and Discrimination in Statutory Service Provision in Reading |
| Colin Campbell, ISLI, Sanctuary café at UoR |
| Bolanle Adebola, Folashade Adeyemo, Law, Black History Month for Law (Month of October) |
| Mara Oliva, History, Women & BAME Women and US Foreign Policy |
| Amanda Clarke, SAGES, ‘Us Too: mental health, sexual harassment & bullying in fieldwork situations’ |
| Allán Laville, SPCLS, Disability Research Showcase – Theory to Practice |
| Fiona Knott, SPCLS, Learning from the experts: students with autism tell us about autism at University |
| Daisy O’Connor, RUSU Activities Officer, Knights Pride Sports Day |
For further information about the fund, take at look at these Staff Portal Articles:
Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Funding (30 November 2020)
Funding available for diversity and inclusion initiatives (06 August 2020)
Get in touch with the central D&I Team at diversity@reading.ac.uk if you have any further questions.