Your equality networks

The next Scottish liaison group meeting will take place at the University of the Highlands and Islands on Wednesday 8 May 2019. Please click here to reserve your place at the meeting. The Scottish HEI Liaison Group (SLG) is a membership network of equality and diversity practitioners from Scottish higher education institutions run by AHE. It helps to inform AHE’s in Scotland and is a forum for practice sharing amongst institutions. Please contact Policy and Programme Adviser (Scotland), Anne Ireson for more details. Scottish HEI liaison group notes- February 2018 Scottish HEI liaison group notes- October 2017 Scottish HEI liaison group notes- May 2017 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - January 2017 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - October 2016 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - June 2016 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - March 2016 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - October 2015 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - June 2015 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - March 2015 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - October 2014 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - June 2014 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - March 2014 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - December 2013 Scottish HEI liaison group notes - October 2013    

Please contact Senior Policy Adviser (Colleges), Stephanie Millar for more details. College liaison group notes - October 2016 College liaison group notes - June 2016 College liaison group notes - March 2016 College liaison group notes - October 2015 October 2015 CLG discussion: Structure and resourcing of E&D in Scottish colleges College liaison group notes - June 2015 College liaison group notes - March 2015 College liaison group notes - October 2014 College liaison group notes - June 2014 College liaison group notes - March 2014 College liaison group notes - December 2013 College liaison group notes - October 2013

Please contact  Head of Policy, Gary Loke for more information.

The next meeting of the Welsh liaison group will take place in the 2018 Summer term. Please contact Head of Policy, Gary Loke for more information.

The next meeting of the Higher education London equality network will take place at Kingston University on Tuesday 11th December. Click here to register your attendance Please contact the member engagement team for more information.

LEON is the equality network supporting South-Coast HEIs. Please contact James Palfreman-Kay, Equality and Diversity Adviser at Bournemouth University,  for more information.

The next meeting of the South West equality network will take place at the University of the West of England on Monday 8th October. Click here to register your attendance Please contact the member engagement team for more information.

The next meeting of the East Midlands equality network will take place at the University of Leicester on Monday 19th November. Click here to register your attendance Please contact the engagement team for more information.

The next meeting of the West Midlands equality network will take place at the University of Worcester on Friday 16th November. Click here to register your attendance Please contact the member engagement team for more information.  

The next meeting of the North East equality network will take place at the University of Northumbria on Monday 1st August. Registration is now closed. 

Click here to register your attendance. Please contact the Athena Swan team for more information.

The next North West Equal Opportunities Network (NWEON) meeting and North West Athena SWAN Network meeting will both take place on Tuesday 23rd October at the University of Manchester. Register your attendance here Get in touch with the member engagement team for more information.  

Please contact Senior Policy Adviser, Claire Herbert for more information.

  Please contact the member engagement team for more information.

The higher education race action group (HERAG) is made up of equality and diversity professionals, academics, students and other individuals interested in advancing race equality in higher education. You can find more information about HERAG here, including presentations from their conferences. The next event  HERAG Think Tank 5: Advocating for race equality in higher education will take place on the 20th June in London. For information about HERAG please contact Tinu Cornish, Senior Training and Learning Adviser at ECU, here or calling her at 07387261347. Alternatively you can contact HERAG’s Chair, Nona McDuff, Head of Equality, University of Kingston.  

Details of the next Research Institute Advisory Group can be found here. Each institute can hold one place at the meeting. Please contact Equality Charters Team directly for more details.    

The next Scottish Race Equality Network meeting is taking place at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, on Tuesday 28 May 2019. Please click here to book your place. Please contact Policy and Programme Adviser (Scotland) Anne Ireson for more information about SREN.

This network gives small and specialist institutions an opportunity to collectively consider the equality and diversity challenges and priorities faced in their work. It is a forum to share inclusive practice and an opportunity to collaborate with and support each other’s efforts in advancing equality within the specific context of a small and specialist institution. The next meeting of the Small and specialist institutions equality network will take place in the 2018 Autumn Term. Contact the member engagement team for more information.

The national network of LGBT+ networks (NoN) is for representatives of staff LGBT+ networks throughout the UK. The aim is to provide opportunities for shared learning and support for networks to up-skill their members, build resilience, and form effective relationships with their institutions. The LGBT Network of Networks is an independently run network which receives some administrative support from Advance HE. To join the network and mailing list please subscribe to the external jiscmail list here: at  https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LGBTNONHE

Members:

• Birkbeck, University of London
• City University London
• Francis Crick Institute (formerly NIMR)
• King's College London
• London School of Economics
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• London South Bank University
• SOAS, University of London
• University College London
• University of Westminster
• Zoological Society of London

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Anglia Ruskin University
• Babraham Institute
• British Antarctic Survey
• Institute of Food Research
• John Innes Centre
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• Queen Mary, University of London
• Royal Veterinary College
• The Genome Analysis Centre
• University of Cambridge
• University of East Anglia
• University of Essex
• University of Hertfordshire
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Brunel University London
• Buckinghamshire New University
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
• Diamond Light Source
• Imperial College London
• Institute of Cancer Research
• Middlesex University
• MRC Harwell
• Natural History Museum
• Open University
• Oxford Brookes University
• Rothamsted Research
• Science and Technology Facilities Council
• UK Atomic Energy Authority
• University of Bedfordshire
• University of Oxford
• University of Reading

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Aston University
• Birmingham City University
• British Geological Survey
• Coventry University
• De Montfort University
• Loughborough University
• MRC Institute of Hearing Research
• MRC Toxicology Unit
• Nottingham Trent University
• University of Birmingham
• University of Derby
• University of Leicester
• University of Lincoln
• University of Northampton
• University of Nottingham
• University of Warwick
• University of Wolverhampton
• University of Worcester

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Durham University
• Leeds Beckett University
• Newcastle University
• Northumbria University
• Sheffield Hallam University
• Teesside University
• University of Bradford
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Hull
• University of Leeds
• University of Sheffield
• University of Sunderland
• University of York

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Bangor University
• Edge Hill University
• Keele University
• Lancaster University
• Liverpool Hope University
• Liverpool John Moores University
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Queen's University Belfast
• Square Kilometre Array
• Staffordshire University
• Ulster University
• University of Bolton
• University of Central Lancashire
• University of Chester
• University of Cumbria
• University of Liverpool
• University of Manchester
• University of Salford

Please contact the Athena SWAN Team for more information.  

Members:

• Abertay University
• Edinburgh Napier University
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Heriot-Watt University
• James Hutton Institute
• Moredun Research Institute
• Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
• Robert Gordon University
• Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
• Scotland’s Rural College
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of St Andrews
• University of Stirling
• University of Strathclyde
• University of the Highlands and Islands
• University of the West of Scotland

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Bournemouth University
• Canterbury Christ Church University
• Goldsmiths, University of London
• Kingston University
• National Oceanography Centre
• Pirbright Institute
• Royal Holloway
• St George's, University of London
• University of Brighton
• University of East London
• University of Greenwich
• University of Kent
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Roehampton
• University of Southampton
• University of Surrey
• University of Sussex
• University of Winchester

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.

Members:

• Aberystwyth University
• Cardiff Metropolitan University
• Cardiff University
• Defence Science & Technology Laboratory
• Met Office
• Plymouth University
• Swansea University
• University of Bath
• University of Bristol
• University of Exeter
• University of South Wales
• University of the West of England, Bristol

Please contact the Athena SWAN team for more information.