Dear All,

Further to my email below, I would still be interested to hear from any HEIs that can help provide examples of effect practice in the areas listed.

If you think that you may be able to help, please email me by the end of the week, or if it is more convenient, please do not hesitate to call me.

Many thanks to those of you that have responded already,

Kind regards

Chris Hall

020 7438 1025

From: Chris Hall
Sent: 17 November 2009 11:30
To: 'HE Administrators equal opportunities list'
Subject: Call for case studies: Advancing LGBT Equality

Call for case studies: Advancing LGBT equality and tackling homophobia

Share your institution’s approach to advancing LGBT equality for inclusion in forthcoming ECU briefing

ECU is interesting in hearing from any institution that is making positive steps to tackle homophobia and advance LGBT equality. We wish to feature your experiences in a short briefing that ECU is developing to address the concerns and issues raised in our research launched earlier this year ‘The experiences of LGBT staff and students in higher education’. We will use any responses to build upon the recent examples shared on AdminEO this month.

We are especially interested to hear about the positive steps your HEI has taken in the following areas:

Identifying and tackling homophobic behaviour

The mechanisms put in place to safeguard the individuals who make complaints of homophobic discrimination.

How awareness has been raised about what constitutes discrimination based on sexual orientation, e.g. examples in dignity/bullying/harassment policies, dissemination and awareness-raising of policies.

Whether your HEI has developed and delivered effective training and induction (for staff and students) to address homophobia and homophobic language.

Work undertaken with the students’ union to stamp out homophobia in sports clubs and societies.

How homophobic behavior in halls has been tackled and if there are any options available for LGBT students to select ‘gay friendly’ accommodation.

Supporting and raising the visibility of LGBT staff and students

How support has been given to set up or support existing LGBT networks for staff and different groups of students.

What the HEI has done to raise the profile of LGBT equality, eg diversity days.

The approach the HEI has taken to appoint diversity champions and what steps they take to demonstrate commitment and promote sexual orientation equality.

How you monitor the experiences of your staff and students according to their sexual orientation.

What mechanisms you have put in place to support estranged students.

If you would like to contribute your experiences to the briefing, please email [log in to unmask] by the 26 November 2009

Thanks in advance for your help

Chris Hall
Senior Policy Adviser

Equality Challenge Unit
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