Equality and Diversity Unit
Confronting Inequality: Celebrating Diversity
Confronting Inequality: Celebrating Diversity
Equality impact assessment is a way for public authorities such as Universities to check that their policies, practices, functions, procedures and criteria do not disadvantage, exclude or otherwise unlawfully discriminate against certain people or groups of people, and that they make a contribution to equality and diversity wherever possible. We are required by law to carry them out.
The University of Bradford carries them out across all equality ‘strands’ to eradicate any adverse impacts for our staff and students: race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, and religion and belief.
It is useful to think of them as ‘risk assessments’ or a form of quality assurance, making sure that the University is a fully inclusive environment for students and staff. As such, in addition to our legal duties, there is also a compelling business case for carrying them out.
All staff who are required to develop or review policies are likely to be asked to carry out equality impact assessments at some point. Summaries of all our completed equality impact assessments, along with Word and PDF copies of the full equality impact assessments can be obtained by clicking on the following link: http://www.brad.ac.uk/impact-assessments/
If you require advice or support in relation to completing an equality impact assessment, then please email Kathy Hobbs (Equality and Diversity Manager) at: k.hobbs@bradford.ac.uk
In addition, we have comprehensively updated and revised our supporting documents, which you can download below.
For other queries, please email equality@bradford.ac.uk
For more detailed background information on this area of work, and some case study examples from the Sector, see Conducting Equality Impact Assessments in Higher Education.
