School Inclusivity Group
The University of Exeter Business School’s School Inclusivity Group (SIG) has the primary function of supporting the University’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) agenda. By actively promoting EDI we hope our community will thrive and people of all backgrounds can come together, achieve success and reach their full potential. The SIG feeds up to the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy (ESE) Wellness, Inclusivity and Culture Committee (WICC), as well as making recommendations to the School’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
The SIG meets twice per term and is constituted by Departmental EDI Directors, EDI advisors, PS represenatives, and 5 theme leads who each represent one of the University’s 5 equality group protected characteristics: Disability, Faith & Worldview, Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation.
The SIG:
- is accountable and responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction on all matters relating to EDI and discrimination affecting both staff and students with the School
- agrees priorities, makes decisions, commissions work and guides the prioritisation of existing budgets to enable success in EDI
- works towards increasing the representation of our underrepresented and diverse communities, particularly within senior academic and professional service roles and in decision-making structures.
At the University of Exeter Business School, we are committed to a truly embedded inclusive culture that runs through everything we do and represents the diverse community we are and continue to build. The objectives for the Business School are to:
- enable students and staff to support diversity and challenge discrimination by promoting cultural change and more inclusive language
- support colleagues by providing learning opportunities to better enable the creation of inclusive educational experiences for our students
- enable the growth of our underrepresented and diverse communities and improving representation within senior academic and professional services role as well as in decision making structures.
SIG membership comprises of Academic and Professional Services staff within our community. The School is committed to ensuring that diverse representation of our community is maintained.
| Role | Name | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Chair | David Boughey (interim) | Management |
| Department Representatives | Martha Omolo | Economics |
| Peta Myers | Finance and Accounting | |
| Suman Saha | Management | |
| Susan Kinsey | Management | |
| Academic Leads for Student Support | Martha Omolo | Racial Equality and Inclusion |
| Jingqi Qiu | ||
| Theme leads | Claire Lavers | Disability |
| Emma Jeanes | Gender | |
| Dario Sansone | Sexual Orientation | |
| Melody Kuziwa Jombe | Race | |
| Vacant* | Faith and Worldview | |
| PS Representatives | Jonnie Critchley | School Manager |
| Matthew Taylor | Accreditation and Rankings Manager | |
| Molly Diver | Accreditation and Rankings Administrator (and Secretary) | |
| Stuart Thomson | HR Partner | |
| Beau Bell | EDI Manager |
* This role is open to both Academic and Professional Services colleagues in the Business School. Please see the SIG Theme Lead role descriptor here for more information. If you are interested please provide a short statement (maximum 350 words) outlining your interest in the role and what you'd bring to SIG. Please send expressions of interest and any further questions you may have to uebs-edi@exeter.ac.uk.
