Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Midlands4Cities recognises and prioritises its responsibility to operate in a way which creates equality of opportunity for all of our applicants, research students and staff, supporting the recruitment and training of a diverse student cohort and running an inclusive doctoral training programme. We will do this through:

• placing a focus on motivation and potential in our application assessment criteria
• advertising PhD opportunities as widely as possible, aiming to eliminate jargon and excluding language from our advertising
• ensuring all of our interview panellists have undertaken the appropriate EDI and interview training, as required by each of the Midlands4Cities Universities.
• including equality, diversity and inclusion focussed training in our programme, for both students and supervisors
• careful monitoring of EDI data, including data on protected characteristics
• undertaking Equality Impact Assessment of all activities delivered in the DTP training programme
• listening to students’ and Student Advisory Forum representatives’ feedback and including them in the governance of the programme