Equality & Diversity course timetable
June 2020
Thu 25 |
A Webinar to introduce you to the technical and practical side of living life to the full aged 70 and beyond.
The presenter: Beverly Jones is a former senior executive and leadership coach who has been providing workshops for Caring4Elders since 2012. Her enthusiastic, down to earth approach has proved helpful to all participants. She is an engaging presenter, passionate about the need to incorporate the final fifteen as a life stage into our plans. You will receive information, links and ideas about how to ensure that this stage of life works for everyone. You are never too young to prepare for this stage of life. www.caring4eldersuk.org.uk Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
Hear the story and see highlights of the largest collection of art by women in Europe with curator Harriet Loffler. Murray Edwards College Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
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Supporting the Wellbeing of Postdocs
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Dr Petra Boynton, Social Psychologist and author of Being Well In Academia will discuss the key concerns facing the wellbeing of postdocs including; overwork, confidence and career progression, stress, bullying/harassment and exclusion/harm directed at BIPOC, disabled and LGBT postdocs. @drpetra on Twitter @petraboynton on Instagram www.theresearchcompanion.com Being Well In Academia pre-order https://www.routledge.com/Being-Well-in-Academia-Ways-to-Feel-Stronger-Safer-and-More-Connected/Boynton/p/book/9780367186708 Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
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Remember when we used to live in precendented times? It seems like it was just yesteryear but it only feels that way because it was. It has been a time for us to really remember the meaning of words and phrases, like how ‘just managing to stay afloat’ or ‘just keeping my head above the water’ are both overwhelmingly positive achievements (just consider what would happen if you didn’t!). But living like this is exhausting in so many ways, so at this year’s Festival of Wellbeing, let’s think a bit about just being in this moment and being apart together. Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
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Fri 26 |
Beach Visualisation Exercise
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Many of us are suffering from anxiety at the moment, which is not surprising given the impact on our lives from the Covid-19 pandemic. This session offers you the opportunity to kick off your shoes, sit back and relax. You will enjoy a 20 minute beach visualisation designed to take you on a mini-break that will leave you relaxed and refreshed. There will also be some information about the Staff Counselling Centre. Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
Yoga with Valerie
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Please join the Murray Edwards College Library for Yoga with Valerie. Valerie is a professional yoga instructor who has retrained as a librarian. Combining her skills, she offers the perfect wind down on Fridays at 3pm with Yoga in the library! Please join us on Friday 26th June at 3 – 4 pm for a relaxing end to the week with some restorative yoga with Valerie – no experience necessary. All you need is a quiet space, Zoom connection, and comfortable clothing. Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
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Come and join Dr Susanna Unsworth for an informal discussion on all aspects of the menopause. Topics covered will include:
Followed by an open Q&A session Take the opportunity to find out the truth about the menopause! Joining instructions will be provide on your booking confirmation email. |
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Building Wellbeing with LEGO®
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In this 90 min workshop you will explore what wellbeing means to you and how you could enhance yours. This online 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. Please note that this workshop only has a small capacity and sign up will close on 12 June so that a LEGO® brick kit can be sent to you in the post. If you get a place in the workshop, you will be asked to complete an online form for your postal address. To get the most from the session, the group will work together using the basic principles of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®:
You will find the approach useful because:
Registration form and joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email |
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Tue 30 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools to becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split in two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --PLEASE BOOK YOURSELF ONTO BOTH PARTS OF THIS SESSION - Tues 30th June and Thu 02nd July Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. Both sessions need to be booked to receive the different Zoom log in details |
July 2020
Thu 2 |
Hosted by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations, Professor Eilis Ferran, this session will provide an overview of the University's Academic Career Pathways (ACP) procedure, highlight the main changes to the process, provide an overview of the ACP CV Scheme and address some of the common misconceptions surrounding promotions. We particularly encourage women and staff identifying as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) to attend as they are currently under-represented at senior academic levels. Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools to becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split in two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --PLEASE BOOK YOURSELF ONTO BOTH PARTS OF THIS SESSION - Tues 30th June and Thu 02nd July Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. Both sessions need to be booked to receive the different Zoom log in details |
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Fri 3 |
Neurodiversity includes the specific learning differences -dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and Autism. In this talk Professor Sara Rankin explores the strengths and weaknesses associated with being neurodiverse and how this plays out in the Universities and businesses for students, researchers, managers, postgraduate students and administrators. She will talk about some of the educational and outreach projects she is currently working on for ND students, at Imperial College London. She will also outline the steps that line managers can take to support their ND staff and give an overview of some of the assistive technologies that can help. Sara Rankin is a Professor in NHLI, FoM working in the field of Regenerative Pharmacology. She is dyslexic and dyspraxic. Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email. @RankinProf | s.rankin@imperial.ac.uk Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women 2019 https://www.womenbeyondthebox.com/sararankin/ |
Tue 7 |
New Global Mobility Policy and Guidance
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This session is for staff in HR related roles and will:
Please note: The seminar will be very similar in content to the Global Mobility Seminar held in August 2019. |
Thu 9 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
Fri 10 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
Tue 28 |
BAME Staff Network Meeting
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This virtual event will be an opportunity to meet the new Chairs of the BAME Staff Network Professor Franklin Aigbirhio and Dr Rabia Dada-Oughton. It will also serve as a space to discuss the aims, purpose, and structure of the Network, as well as key priorities and initiatives the Network should take forward. Zoom joining instructions will be available on your booking confirmation email |
We are hosting a facilitated conversation to reflect on the outcomes of the discussion at the UUK's webinar "Turning words into action: Eliminating Racism and racial inequality in Higher Education, and on any learning we can take on board at the University of Cambridge. The UUK webinar is taking place on July 14th at 2:30pm - 3:30pm. It's hoped that UUK will make available a recording of the webinar, please do ensure that you listen / take part in the webinar if you're wishing to take part in the Cambridge facilitated discussion. https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/events/Pages/Eliminating-racism-and-racial-inequality-in-higher-education.aspx Book here for our facilitated session. The discussion will be facilitated by Miriam Lynn and Joanna Jasiewicz from the E&D Section and by Tyra Amofah-Akardom who was the Education Officer for the CUSU BME Campaign and Welfare and Rights Part-Time Executive in 2019-2020. Tyra was also involved in the Black British Students' stream of the Access and Participation Plan: Participatory Action Research project, where she and her team proposed the idea of having a Black Student Advisory Hub. |
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Wed 29 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
Thu 30 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
August 2020
Tue 11 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
Thu 13 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
Mon 24 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. While the session may be most helpful to white colleagues, everyone is warmly invited to attend. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
Tue 25 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. While the session may be most helpful to white colleagues, everyone is warmly invited to attend. --YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |
September 2020
Thu 10 |
This year, to mark World Suicide Prevention Day, Yvonne McPartland, Deputy Head of the Staff Counselling Centre, will be delivering a session on suicide prevention for staff in Cambridge. The shocking reality is that suicide is the most common cause of death in men aged under 50 and the suicide rate is currently increasing after many years of decline. This equates to more than 6,000 deaths by suicide annually in the UK and Ireland. What impact will Covid-19 have on suicide numbers? The session is designed to give staff the confidence to challenge the taboo around suicide that makes it such a difficult subject to broach, with colleagues, family members, friends and even total strangers: what is it OK to say, what should I be looking for and what should I do next? The session will increase awareness around suicide, dispel some myths and share some lessons from experience at the Staff Counselling Centre. It will also remind staff what the centre can offer them. The message is that having a conversation could really save a life. Resources and further information:
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Tue 22 |
Come along to this session if you’d like to develop some practical tools for becoming a white ally and build a strong antiracist identity. The training will be split into two 1h sessions. This will allow us to make space for discussion while not making the zoom meeting too long. While the session may be most helpful to white colleagues, everyone is warmly invited to attend. -- YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS. Joining instructions will appear on your booking confirmation emails. |