Hi Marie,
I think if you woant to ask questions of students or staff regarding monitoring you have to have good reasons for doing so... The difficulty will be when asked why you are asking...
In my old job for a local council, we started asking questions on sexual orientation, which was received quite well due to our reasoning. Which was the need to identify the lesbian/gay/transexual population in order to provide support and help tackle the increasing number of hate crimes reported due to sexuality.
How you will justify it in an HE institution may require a little consultation from maybe stonewall and even local LGBT groups in your area. It would also be helpful to monitor the number of harassment cases for example based on religion or sexuality.
I hope that helps a little...i know it doesn't help with the wording but I thought maybe the reasons for monitoring are more important initially.
Kindest regards
Irfaan arif
Equality and Diversity manager
University of Kent
01227824781
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Subject: Wording for collecting new info in monitoring question
Hello all:
I am going to be proposing to Student Services that any surveys they conduct on students should collect monitoring questions on the gender (including trans), disability, race, age, religion and sexual orientation. I have been turning my mind to the wording of the monitoring questions that we haven't necesarrily have asked questions before ... Primarily trans, sexual orientation and religion. Just wondering if anyone else has been thinking about how to collect this type of monitoring info and whether you have any suggestions.
Regarding students who are transgender/transexual, I understand that there isn't necessarily consensus as to the wording of the question. I am thinking of just having a simple question -- i.e., do you define yourself as a member of the 'trans'community -- yes /no
For sexual orientation I was thinking - What is your sexual orientation with tick box options of: Heterosexual; Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual
For Religious Belief I was thinking about using the wording from the
Census -
What is your religion with tick box options of: None; Christian;
Buddhist; Hindu; Jewish; Muslim; Sikh; Any other religion, please write
in.
Any feedback would be appreciated
Marie Paturel
Student Equality and Diversity Adviser
Department of Student Services
Brighton University
The Manor House
Moulsecoomb Place
Brighton
BN2 4GA
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