Lancaster University

Strategy

The University aims to challenge and eliminate race discrimination, and promote race equality and good relations between people from different ethnic backgrounds by:

• addressing any perceived barriers in providing and promoting inclusive practices for staff and students from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups and to target areas to remove inequalities;
• improving our ability to recruit, retain, support and develop staff and students from BME groups;
• celebrating the diversity of our UK and international staff and student community;
• broadening our intake from students of different ethnic backgrounds to undergraduate courses, by continuing with our targeted outreach project involving regional minority ethnic communities that has contributed to recruitment in 2008 rising above 6% for the first time.

Policies, procedure and guidance

Actions and Achievements

For further information about actions impacting on race equality see Single Equality Action Plan

Archive

Policies and procedures

• Race Equality Policy 2002
• Race Equality Policy 2006-09
• Race Equality Action Plan 2005-06
• Race Equality Action Plan 2006-09
• Race Equality Scheme 2008 Action Plan

Reports and monitoring

• Race Equality Report 2003
• Race Equality Report 2007
• Race Black and Minority Ethnic staff consultation Report 2003
• Race Black and Minority Ethnic student consultation Report 2003
• Race Black and Minority Ethnic student consultation Report 2004
• Race Black and Minority Ethnic student consultation Report 2005
• Race Black and Minority Ethnic student consultation Report 2006
• race Equality Policy Implementation Plan 2003
• Staff Ethnicity Profile 1997-2003

Useful links

• Equality Challenge Unit: Race equality
• Equality & Human Rights Commission: Race Equality
• Runnymede Trust Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank. They generate intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement.
• BIS: Race into higher education
• Universities Scotland: Race equality toolkit