Pride
Even the rain couldn’t stop us having a great time at Sheffield Pride! We marched, we compèred the main stage and we met hundreds of community members to talk about what a great place SHU is to work and study at.
Pride in numbers
We gave away 100 SHU bags, 20 SHU prospectuses and 50 Team Hallam baseball caps.
We also had a snapchat takeover with 651 unique views and 30 colleagues marched with a 6 foot rainbow SHU banner
A big well done and thank you to everyone involved and to our very own Signal Co-Chair James Laley for superbly compèring the main stage all day to over 700 people!
All of these numbers were for one very good reason – LGBT+ equality!
Signal is looking for new members
Signal is the SHU LGBT+ staff network and supports the University in its mission to be LGBT+ inclusive. We want to make sure that Signal is as diverse and representative as possible and we are particularly inviting LGBT+ colleagues with multiple identities such as people of faith, people with disabilities or BAME people to get involved. Please email LGBT@shu.ac.uk
Did you know that the University uses Signal to consult with LGBT+ colleagues? Signal has recently helped the University to make its policy more LGBT+ inclusive, including family-friendly policies relating to Adoption, Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave.
Stonewall survey – all colleagues are invited to complete
The University works with Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBT+ rights charity and this year, to ensure we are creating an LGBT+ inclusive workplace for our colleagues, we are entering the annual Workplace Equality Index. This uses criteria to assess how inclusive we are. As part of this we are asking our colleagues to complete a short (5 minute) survey about their experiences. You can identify as LGBT+ or straight to take part in the survey.
Please follow this link www.stonewall.org.uk/index-survey-2019 and enter code 1550. This code is to recognise your answers as from SHU and is not a personal identifier.