SCFP's Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity & Equality (WIDE) Committee has representation from students, PDRAs, academic and support staff from all three of our departments. The Committee is chaired by Dr Mauricio Cafiero (m.cafiero@reading.ac.uk).
The aims and terms of reference for the WIDE Committee are given below and apply to all staff across the School:
What we do
- To promote and support a diverse community of staff and students
- To create and provide environments that support people to feel free to be themselves, while respecting others
- To recognise and address that in all areas there are equality and inclusion challenges for people with certain protected and unprotected characteristics
- To enable all staff and students to fulfil their potential and to foster a working environment that protects their physical and mental wellbeing
- To promote flexible working and good working practices, mentoring, mandatory unconscious bias training, support for promotions and professional behaviour
- To measure our success on an annual basis through data collection and surveys, and communicate our findings to the School. This will inform our future priorities for action, and ensure that these priorities are embedded in School policy and practice, and align with the University wellbeing, equality and diversity policies and objectives
