Equality & Diversity course timetable

This event explores the experiences of managers within the University who support their teams to work flexibly. You will hear how flexible and agile working practices can mutually benefit both employee and employer.

The School of Technology is dedicated to creating and maintaining a safe, welcoming, inclusive and diverse community that nurtures a culture of mutual respect and consideration. It is important that as a School we embed and share good practice, encourage an open and transparent culture where individuals feel able to come forward to raise issues and have the confidence that they will be dealt with in a fair and robust manner.

BREAKING THE SILENCE – Where you draw the line?

The Vice-Chancellor launched the University’s Breaking the Silence Campaign in October 2017. Breaking the Silence aims to tackle issues of sexual harassment and misconduct www.breakingthesilence.cam.ac.uk

As part of this campaign the School of Technology will be holding an event designed to support us in working together to become a more inclusive community, hosted by Dr Miriam Lynn from the Equality and Diversity Section and Tracy Brooks School of Technology Human Resources Business Manager.

The aim of the session is to support individuals across the School to foster an inclusive working environment, to give advice on 'where to draw the line' and also highlight the support and guidance available for members of the University (both staff and students are welcome) in relation to sexual harassment and misconduct.

This event explores the experiences of managers within the University who support their teams to work flexibly. You will hear how flexible and agile working practices can mutually benefit both employee and employer.

The School of Technology is dedicated to creating and maintaining a safe, welcoming, inclusive and diverse community that nurtures a culture of mutual respect and consideration. It is important that as a School we embed and share good practice, encourage an open and transparent culture where individuals feel able to come forward to raise issues and have the confidence that they will be dealt with in a fair and robust manner.

BREAKING THE SILENCE – Where you draw the line?

The Vice-Chancellor launched the University’s Breaking the Silence Campaign in October 2017. Breaking the Silence aims to tackle issues of sexual harassment and misconduct www.breakingthesilence.cam.ac.uk

As part of this campaign the School of Technology will be holding an event designed to support us in working together to become a more inclusive community, hosted by Dr Miriam Lynn from the Equality and Diversity Section and Tracy Brooks School of Technology Human Resources Business Manager.

The aim of the session is to support individuals across the School to foster an inclusive working environment, to give advice on 'where to draw the line' and also highlight the support and guidance available for members of the University (both staff and students are welcome) in relation to sexual harassment and misconduct.

Spreadsheet list received 08 Oct 2019

Includes people who have attended multiple sessions on different days but no dates given

This session will be a lunchtime talk from the Cruse Bereavement Care charity on their services and how to deal with bereavement.

This lunch time session from Macmillan Cancer Support charity will give information about the Charity, its services and supporting those with cancer.

Relax and unwind in the middle of your busy day – it may well make your afternoon more productive. You will leave this session with some tips for relaxing in the workplace on a daily basis.

Do you have responsibility for the work, behaviour and development of others, for example in a research group or in a professional service area? If so, this short session will help to identify and consider your key responsibilities and the skills needed to lead and manage others effectively, such as managing difficult situations and delegating effectively. Using these skills with confidence is known to enhance wellbeing, promote positive engagement and increase productivity and enjoyment at work, both for yourself and others.

In this workshop you will explore what wellbeing means to you and how you could enhance yours. The workshop will use the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitation method to help explore complex topics.

Building with LEGO® bricks and using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitation will make sure that you, and the others in the group, contribute equally and understand each other. It will stimulate your thinking, communication and, problem solving skills and create an environment with insight, confidence and commitment. Your possibilities for learning are enormous.

To get the most from the session the group will work together using the basic principles of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®: 1. Question – an issue and a suitable open question is identified 2. Build – you make LEGO® brick models to answer the question from your own perspective 3. Share – you all explain your model using it as a metaphor to answer the question 4. Reflect – the group checks everyone’s understanding, and makes sense of the knowledge that has been unlocked.

100% of the participants are involved for 100% of the session unlike conventional workshops where 20% of the people do 80% of the talking and not everyone is engaged.

You will find the approach useful because:

• We all have a unique perspective
• Our brain works better in three dimensions
• Playing in three dimensions lets us see more perspectives and have more ideas
• Story-making and metaphors help you communicate more clearly

Spreadsheet list received 08 Oct 2019

Includes people who have attended multiple sessions on different days but no dates given

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

In her talk , 'How to walk on Sunshine' Rachel Kelly, author and mental health campaigner, shares her personal story of recovering from two serious depressive episodes, and teaches participants to foster resilience and mental wellbeing by sharing evidence-based strategies relating to both body and mind. She includes aspects of mindfulness, nutrition and exercise, as well as poetry and gratitude exercises as a vehicle for reflection, perspective and strength. The session is interactive and participants will experience some of Rachel’s strategies for themselves as a first step in building their own toolkit which will help them Walk on Sunshine.

In this panel discussion event, three researchers from across the University discuss their experiences of work-life balance, including balancing work with family life, caring for a disabled child or long-term health problems. What have their solutions been and what are the on-going battles? What more support for postdocs is needed? There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Back by popular demand, half a dozen delightful dogs will grace the grounds of Madingley Hall and are looking for some friends to play and walk with.

There is nothing to make worries disappear quite like stroking a happy dog, playing fetch or simply strolling with your companion in a beautiful setting.

Start the day the way you mean to continue. Learn some easy and effective stretches that you can do from your desk to refresh you, not only in the morning, but whenever you use them thereafter.

Join us for a led cycle ride to Logan's Meadow at lunchtime for a picnic (weather permitting)! All abilities welcome, rides will be led by 2 fully trained cycle instructors and will start and return at Old Schools courtyard. All you need to bring is a bike and some lunch!

At 157 feet tall Cambridge University Library’s tower is its most recognisable feature, and can be seen for miles around. This tour of the tower, normally accessible only to Library staff, reveals some of the secrets held in its collections. The subject of the UL’s current exhibition, the tower collections (over half a million books on 11 floors) tell the story of two centuries of popular publishing in the UK, received under the Copyright Act and since 1934 held in the tower as ‘secondary’ to the Library’s main academic collections. Victorian toys and games jostle for shelf space with colourful children’s books, Edwardian fiction in pristine dust jackets and popular periodicals.

Now recognised as a treasure trove for researchers, its collections tell the story of our national life through the printed word. The exhibition can be viewed in the Milstein Exhibition Centre before or after your tour. Please note that the lift stops on the 15th floor. Access to the 16th floor is via a single flight of stairs. This tour may not be suitable for those uncomfortable in confined spaces or those with mobility issues.

• 18s and over only
• In the event of a fire evacuation or lift failure, access up or down the tower is via 200+ steps. Therefore, this tour is not suitable for those with limited mobility or wheelchair users.
• This tour may not be suitable for those uncomfortable in confined spaces
• Bags and large coats must be left in our Locker Room off the Entrance Hall before the tour commences
• No food or drink may be consumed at any point on the tour
• The tower is a high-security area and the Library reserves the right to search tour visitors on exit

Professor Dame Carol Black's Annual Wellbeing Lecture; Integrating traditional Occupational Safety and Health protection programmes with the wider determinants of health in the workplace - stress, quality of management and leadership, autonomy, flexibility - is not easy to achieve, and many barriers, especially cultural ones, must be overcome. The lecture will take and international lens and look at progress around the world in achieving this highly desirable goal. Total Worker Health, when properly embedded, impacts the wellbeing, not only of workers, but also of their families, communities and the economy.

This lecture takes place at the Principal's Lodge, Newnham College.

A tour of the College grounds looking at the development of the grounds over the centuries.