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The University is committed to making Keele a place where
learning, living and working is a positive experience
for all and currently holds a number of equality awards.
Athena SWAN Disability Confident Scheme
As a member of the Athena SWAN Charter the
University is committed to developing initiatives to
advance gender equality. The charter covers women
(and men where appropriate) in academic roles in
STEMM (science, technology, engineering, maths
and medicine) and AHSSBL (arts, humanities, social
sciences, business and law), professional and support
staff and trans staff and students. The University is signed up to the Disability Confident
Scheme and has met the criteria to become a Disability
Confident Employer which is a demonstration of its
commitment to support job applicants and staff with
a disability or long term health condition.
The University currently holds an institutional
Bronze SWAN award, two departmental Silver
awards and eight departmental Bronze awards.
Race Equality Charter
The University is committed to addressing racial
inequalities and creating an inclusive culture and
environment where individuals are able to thrive,
irrespective of their race or ethnicity. To help facilitate
progress, we are currently working towards an
application for the Equality Charter Unit’s Race
Equality Charter.
Stonewall
Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme is
Britain’s leading best-practice employers’ forum for
sexual orientation and gender identity equality, diversity
and inclusion. Keele University is proud to display the
Stonewall Diversity Champions logo in our internal
and external messaging to demonstrate our clear
commitment to LGBT equality.
Staff and Student Networks
The University has established staff and student
networks to support its aim of working towards realising
and developing equality for Black, Asian and ethnic
minority backgrounds (BAME) staff and lesbian, gay,
bi-sexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) staff.