EDI Resources for Teaching

Here you will find a list of Warwick resources designed to help staff deliver inclusive and supportive learning.

• Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Process: initiatives and resources that promote inclusive education through the engagement and practice of anti-racism.
• "Queering University": initiatives and resources designed to encourage teaching & learning, pastoral, and other practices that are inclusive of trans and LGBTQUIA+ people.
• "Say My Name": resources to promote respectful interactions around names.
• Resources for Staff Supporting Students with Disabilities: guidance on accessibility in the classroom and resources to assist staff supporting students with disabilities.
• Neurodiversity and the Student Experience: resources and training about the experiences of students who identify as neurodivergent; includes a Neurodiversity Toolkit.
• Report + Support: online platform to report harassment, bullying and discrimination at Warwick. It includes guidance on how to support students and colleagues affected by them.
• Department's Approach to Teaching Challenging or Distressing Topics: the note below is included in the UG and PGT student handbooks. If you wish, you can include it also in your module handbooks:
  

Students are advised that in studying issues of power and inequality difficult or sensitive issues may be represented or discussed. While care will always be taken in class not to cause distress and to create a welcoming learning environment for everyone, there may be occasions where you will confront images or texts, or where you hear discussions that are uncomfortable for you. The Department of Sociology does not issue trigger warnings with respect to potentially challenging or distressing content, for several reasons. We do not presume in advance that we know what content or discussions may cause distress to students or staff. We aim to provide context for all materials, and to provide a learning environment where it is clear why we are showing particular images or reading particular texts, in preference to ring fencing some as dangerous in and of themselves. Our courses ask you to engage difficult questions of social and intersubjective significance and we aim to teach you how to read and think about those questions as part of navigating the field.

However, if you feel unable to continue to participate in a particular class or lecture, you may leave at any point and will not be challenged. We would encourage you to follow up with your seminar tutor or personal tutor, however, to address any concerns. We also support student self-care and the University has a range of services to support your wellbeing.

Courses in the Department of Sociology endeavour to prioritise issues of diversity and inequality, and to challenge social and intellectual exclusions based on age, class, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, nationality and citizenship, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Students and staff are expected to be respectful of one another and attentive to issues of diversity and inequality, and these concerns also form a central part of the knowledge production you will encounter.