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Excellence in ED&I Award 2021

November 2021.

 

The Warwick Institutional Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team (chaired by Professor Kate Seers) and the Gender Task Force (chaired by Professor Jo Collingwood) launched a new award to acknowledge commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion and to share best practice.

Warwick is committed to developing an environment which promotes equality of opportunity, values diversity, and where students and staff can work and study free from discrimination and harassment. This award recognised an individual or team who contributed to the enhancement of ED&I at Warwick by delivering a specific project, initiative, and/or by actively demonstrating a commitment to building more inclusive work/study environments and experiences through their everyday behaviours.

The judging panel was chaired by the Provost, Chris Ennew, and the winners were announced by Kate Seers from Warwick Medical School at a ceremony on 3 November 2021. Claire Algar from Social Inclusion and Jo Collingwood from the School of Engineering presented the certificates.

It was a fabulous occasion and very inspiring to see so much innovation and commitment to excellence in ED&I.

 

Results

Thank you to everyone who submitted for the ED&I award and/or who entered the competition to design the award. Thanks to the ED&I Award judging panel, chaired by the Provost. And thanks to Martin Millson in the School of Engineering for making the trophy.

Award Design Competition Winner

There was a competition to design a trophy for the Excellence in ED&I Award winner, which was won by Ant Brewerton, who presented this trophy to the winners.

Speaking about the trophy, Ant said "ED&I at Warwick supports us in our differences but unites us in the values that we hold in common. This is what my design hoped to capture."

Learn more about Ant in this interview: 5 questions with Ant Brewerton – Trophy designer.

Photo: An image of the trophy based on Ant's winning design.

Award Winners

Active Bystander Initiative, led by Jane Bryan and Puja Laporte – Office of the Dean of Students.

This is part of the Community Values Education Programme.

This is an intervention designed to provide a campus environment in which all members of our community feel safe and are respected. Taking part in this course is a positive way to contribute to efforts to build a community that embodies our values, tackling issues such as sexual violence, misconduct, and abuse.

The judges said:

“important initiative with significant impact across campus, high profile undertaken in a thoughtful and creative way."

Learn more about Jane and Puja in this interview: 5 questions with Jane Bryan and Puja Laporte – winner of the ED&I award.

Photo below: Winners of the inaugural Excellence in ED&I Award, Puja and Jane, accepting their certificate and trophy from Ant.

The judging panel also recognised a number of other people for the award, as detailed below: