Department for Health: Equity & Diversity
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Staff Survey 2020: your experiences and views matter to us
As an Equality and Diversity Committee, we are in the process of developing a new Strategy and Action Plan for the Department that will guide our work over the next four years. In order to ensure that this is relevant...
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Anti-racism work: what does this mean for a Health Department?
October 2020 signals the 33rd edition of Black History Month in the UK. "Black History Month 2020 is a time for people to come together and hopefully learn lessons for the present and the future. It’s a time to honour...
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Hello, Goodbye (belated, thanks to a global pandemic)
*This blog was written by JFW in January, and has been edited and is being published by SB in September. Thanks to The Beetles for providing the soundtrack for the first E&D blog of 2020. (And to the global pandemic...
Latest posts
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Flexible Working within the Department for Health
To create and maintain a diverse and effective workforce, we recognise that a little flexibility can sometimes make a difference in assisting staff to balance the demands of work and their personal life. In this blog, we wanted to draw...
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Better the balance, better the Department
Happy International Women's Day to you all! The campaign theme for IWD2019 is 'Better the balance, better the world'... and there have been some criticisms, quite rightly, about it becoming hijacked for the wrong reasons. "It's not about cupcakes, and 'leaning...
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7 Top Tips on how to avoid gender bias in reference writing.
Got a great colleague or student? Planning to write a fantastic letter or reference? Then read on to find out how to avoid falling into the common traps based on unconscious gender bias.
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Committee Meetings - taking place in a room near you now!
Committees: A group that takes minutes but loses hours; a group of no more than three, two of whom should always be absent for a decision to be made; a cul-de-sac where ideas are lured and then quietly strangled...Given the bad...
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A post about promotions
That time of the year is looming once again, and I'm not talking about Induction Week. Rather, September, like March contains the deadline for completed applications for promotion (see below for key dates). It is commonly cited that women don't...
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You've Got Mail!: The department for health guide to email etiquette
Although email can be a useful means of communication, it has also been described as "a toxic source of stress". Due to technology enabling people to be at their email’s constant beck and call, psychologists have warned that a culture...
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Which women inspire staff and students in the Dept for Health?
To celebrate International Women's Day 2018, we asked staff and postgraduate students in the Department for Health to tell us about the women who inspire them. Click here to find our what they said. Thank you to all who took...
