Gender Equality Scheme - University of Winchester

• A section on equality and dignity is included in new staff induction.
• A session on Gender and Conversation Style which raises awareness of the
difference between the way men and women communicate.
• The Postgraduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
(PGCLTHE) includes sessions on equality and gender.
?.3 Teaching and Learning
A curriculum audit has taken place under the Learning and Teaching project
Addressing Diversity and Equality the Curriculum. This, in part, came from the
consideration of the impact assessment process.
This project addresses issues specific to race, gender and disability with
particular reference to the curriculum and has two phases. The first involves an
audit of existing practice within the University drawing, where appropriate, on
evidence from elsewhere, in order to identify existing good practice and
barriers to development. The second will develop and trial a web-based toolkit
of specific relevance to a small new university recruiting from a region in which
perceptions tend to be of a monocultural and largely middle class catchment.
Its focus will be on promoting curriculum development in order to both meet
the needs of an increasingly diverse student population and to offer curricula
relevant to the global multicultural world in which students will be working and
living.
One of the intentions is to work in a way that tries to avoid some of the
‘equality and diversity elephant traps’ including equality and diversity initiatives
that generate at best reluctant action and at worst seething resentment;
approaches that result in perceptions among academics of a PC discourse as a
real and dangerous phenomenon; and underestimates of the time needed to
talk to people if they are to engage at all let alone with real commitment.
The project hopes to achieve the following
• Better institution-wide understanding of curriculum issues related to
inclusivity and diversity and of barriers to change
• Increased engagement of academic staff with diversity and equality issues
• Raised profile for learning and teaching related diversity and equality issues
among academic staff and senior managers
• Staff development benefits for academic staff from each of the 3 Faculties
• Enhanced leadership capacity among programme leaders and other
academic staff