At The University of Lincoln, we challenge the traditional approach to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). We bring about the changes needed to create a diverse and inclusive environment by adopting transformational and progressive practices, founded on the need to ask questions, to challenge, to seek solutions, to look for evidence of change, to measure impact. We take a systems-based approach, working holistically across the whole institution to change the embedded structures and processes that lead to inequalities and isolation.

At the heart of our work is the Eleanor Glanville Institute the University’s strategic lead for EDI. The Institute is a unique ‘hybrid’ department where academics and professional services staff work together, forging researcher-practitioner collaborations to underpin our inclusive practices by research, to develop new robust interventions informed by research, and to evaluate our impact and progress towards achieving our ambitions.

Our aim is to support and stimulate greater diversity across the University in both staff and students, and research and teaching, to foster a greater sense of belonging for all because belonging improves learning. Our work on reducing the ethnic minority attainment gap, well ahead of the sector, tells us that.

Genuinely exploring different perspectives – whether from our culture, our ethnicity, our sex, our sexual orientation, disability, beliefs or our identity – challenges established ideas and enables us to create new insight and make new discoveries. It’s not just who is doing the research that matters, but what research is being done, how the research is being done, who is being talked to, whose stories are being included.

The Eleanor Glanville Institute is now looking to complete its founding staff group of fourteen and is keen to recruit a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer to join our academic team. The post holders will contribute to the development of the Institute’s research portfolio in an EDI-related subject area.

We want our team to thrive on difference, value ‘disagreeing well’, and have deep curiosity across disciplines.

We’d be very keen to hear from you if you are able to approach ideas and challenges in the field of EDI with openness to others’ approaches and perspectives, are keen to seek out new perspectives, are able to contribute to the atmosphere of constructive challenge we want to build within the Institute and the University, are able to communicate to audiences, within and outside academia, issues in relation to EDI that are often personally testing. If you can bring us originality and effectiveness in your ideas and ways of working that will help to achieve this kind of change, then please do get in touch.

For an informal discussion, contact Prof Belinda Colston ([email protected])