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Dear Colleagues,

At ECU we want to know we are providing the right services and resources to support you and advance equality and diversity. We are therefore pleased to invite you to participate in our second annual survey of our stakeholders in the higher education sector, the results of which will provide a means of measuring ECU’s progress against last year’s baseline.

Your opinion is invaluable in helping us assess our impact and in informing priorities and areas of work for the future, and will be considered as part of the review of ECU by its funders in 2013. Key findings of the survey will be available in our annual review, to be published in early 2013.

This survey is open from 13 November – 10 December and includes sections which will ask you about:

• you and your institution

• your interaction with ECU

• how ECU supports your work and suggestions for our development

• your equality and diversity priorities for the coming year

Prize draw

As a token of our gratitude, three survey respondents will be selected at random to receive a £50 voucher for John Lewis. When you finish the survey you will be redirected to a separate page where you can provide your details to enter the prize draw. These will be stored separately and not linked in any way to your survey response. Please note that only respondents who complete the survey will be eligible for the prize draw.

Email invitations

If you have previously received a personal email invitation to complete the survey, please use the link provided in your email. This is so that we are able to determine how many lead contacts participated in the survey; you will not be identified from this information.

Taking the survey

If you have not received a personal email invitation to complete the survey, please click on the link that best corresponds to your role to participate:

Equality and Diversity Practitioner (20-25 minutes to complete)

Human Resources (15-20 minutes to complete)

Alternative Format

If you require the survey in an alternative format, please contact Stephanie Neave on 0207 438 1020 or email [log in to unmask].

More information

For more information about the survey, please visit http://www.ecu.ac.uk/news/annual-sector-survey-2012 or contact Stephanie Neave at the above telephone number or email address.

We thank you in advance for your time and participation.

Best wishes,

Equality Challenge Unit

ECU is a registered charity, funded by grants from the UK higher education sector funding bodies, with contributions from Universities UK and GuildHE, and works to further and support equality and diversity for staff and students in higher education across all four nations of the UK, and in further education in Scotland.

Stephanie Neave
Research and Data Officer
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