Our EDI committee participates in a number of activities to promote inclusion within the Grantham Institute.  Visit the Grantham Blog for comments from our students and staff.

EDI Seed Fund

In 2021, the Grantham Institute’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee won an Imperial Seed Fund Award. The project ‘Understanding routes to improving engagement with climate change and environmental issues by diverse groups of people’ aimed to help us to get a better understanding of how diverse groups of people, both in the general public and amongst our key stakeholder audiences, engage with climate change and environmental issues. The project was undertaken by student employees, under the management of Alyssa Gilbert, Simon Levey and Dr Morena Mills (Centre for Environmental Policy) in July 2021.

Current and Future Actvities

Recruitment and Reporting
  • EDI activities are included in our biannual reporting to our funders and in internal and external newsletters for the DTP and Grantham Affiliates.
  • Members of the EDI committee have discussed benchmarking and reporting on EDI objectives with the Diverse Sustainability Initiative.
  • Job adverts are placed on BBSTEM Jobs and Opportunities Board to reach a diverse talent pool, in line with Imperial College guidance.
  • Job descriptions and adverts are written using Textio to ensure gender- and age- neutral language.
  • Whenever possible, job applications are anonymised.
  • Recruitment panels are selected to ensure diversity.
  • In some instances, sessions are held to meet with and offer advice to prospective applicants about the application process.

 

Any questions?

For any queries related to our SSCP DTP studentships, please contact our Doctoral Training Coordinator, Christiane Morgan (c.morgan@imperial.ac.uk)

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