All Equality & Diversity courses

Coming back into the workplace after a few months off is hard at the best of times, but combined with new caring responsibilities and sleep deprivation, it can feel like a huge step.

In partnership with My Family Care, this session will signpost tools and tactics for getting back to work, building confidence and balancing career and family.

The Fitzwilliam Msueum is hosting “Where Do You Draw the Line?” workshops for ALL staff as part of the University-wide E&D policy and training programme.

Session Objectives:

• Know what the University has in place to support and sustain a positive and thriving working environment for all staff and students
• Clarify the expectations about professional behaviour in the HE context of a) what is acceptable and unacceptable? and b) the ‘grey’ areas
• Understand the terms bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct and know what is in place to deal with these with a zero-tolerance approach
• Know what you can do to create and sustain a positive and thriving environment for everyone.

Eton Fives is a hand-ball game, played in a three-sided court. It is only played as "doubles" (i.e. by two teams of two players).

Players wear padded leather gloves, since the ball (which is slightly large than a golf-ball and made of rubber and cork) is quite hard. Eton Fives can also be referred to as a game of hazards! Rugby Fives, first played at Rugby School, is essentially squash with your hands, but far quicker. Different from Eton Fives, it sees all obstacles removed, a back wall added and a lower line to hit the ball above. The ball is almost like a mini baseball and therefore thick padded gloves are essential for this game.

This session, run by the Sports Service Community Sports Coach will give you the opportunity to try your hand at the two versions of the sport. Changing facilities are available on site and participants are asked to wear trainers. The Sports Service will provide gloves.

This session is an opportunity to find out more about the work ourcambridge and colleagues in the HR Division are progressing on supporting flexible working opportunities.

You will hear about the different types of flexible working, the benefits, how to overcome barriers and how you can help build a flexible working culture within your area.

This webinar aims to recognise how diet and lifestyle impacts overall health and wellbeing especially in the ‘new normal’ academic workplace, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Furthermore, we will discuss how the food we eat and lifestyle choices we make can have direct and indirect effects on our function, and speakers will access practical strategies to integrate healthy habits as part of daily routines.

Speakers: Professor Sumantra Ray, Dr Minha Rajput-Ray, Helena Trigueiro RD, Shane McAuliffe RD

You are invited to join one of two upcoming online focus groups on gender equality at Cambridge.

We want to understand more about people’s lived experiences of their working environment and work culture, and how those are affected by gender (and other protected characteristics).

The discussions are inclusive and open to individuals of all genders.

The University Gender Champions, Professor Sarah Colvin and Dr Liz Hide, will be in attendance to listen and guide the discussion.

The data from these focus groups will complement other data being gathered – for example by the Staff Culture Survey circulated earlier this year – as part of the University’s application to renew its Silver Athena Swan Charter.

This is an online session

Hear the story and see highlights of the largest collection of art by women in Europe with curator Harriet Loffler. Murray Edwards College

Joining instructions will be provided on your booking confirmation email.

A brief look at:

• the psychological impact of the COVID pandemic and lockdown on adults and adolescents
• the potential for mixed feelings as COVID restrictions lift
• taking care of our mental health as we go back to our ‘normal’ lives

Dr Zoe Martin, Principal Clinical Psychologist in Major Trauma & Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Staff Mental Health Service Dr Anna Conway-Morris, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist & Training Programme Director for Child Psychiatry

Our systems of recognition and reward play an important part in creating a positive research culture.

This session will look at the connection between recognition and research culture, and will encourage you to explore how you would like to be recognised, and how you can recognise others, in order to promote a positive and healthy research culture for yourself, your research group and department.

This session is being delivered by Liz Simmonds, Assistant Head, Postdoc Academy, Chair of the Research Culture Working Group

This session is for staff in HR related roles and will:

• Introduce the Global Mobility policy and associated guidance documentation.
• Explore the key considerations when sending or recruiting someone to work overseas on an Assignment.
• Discuss different types of overseas working and the processes applicable to each case.

Please note: The seminar will be very similar in content to the Global Mobility Seminar held in August 2019.