Thinking Beyond Platitudes: Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

This roundtable brings into conversation leading experts on and practitioners of diversity and inclusion in Higher Education.

In an informal style, the panel and audience members will spend time thinking through broader questions of how we enable and encourage change in higher education that leads to substantive inclusion and how do we become better allies of one-another.

Confirmed speakers include

• Karen Mumford (York) who will be presenting her research on how “progress” is gendered in promotions and the persistence of pay gaps in economic departments in the UK

• Cristina Sechel (Sheffield) who will be presenting her research on gender and REF submissions in economics departments in the UK

• Samina Zaman (King’s disability) who will be talking about her work with intersectionality in policy reform around BAME communities with disabilities

• Evelyn Welch (Pro VC King’s) who will be providing an institutional response/reflection

• Sarah Guerra (TBC)