Leadership Foundation

BME Leadership in Higher Education Summit

An excellent forum for networking with others and understanding what we need to action. Above all, an understanding of where our institution is at present and where we need to go.
 

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Previous BME Leadership in Higher Education Summits have focued on system level change, drawing on evidence in creating inclusive culture change. They have been an opportunity to engage leaders to stimulate real change and progress race equality in higher education, showcasing a number of tools and differing strategies that individuals and institutions can employ to tackle the systematic issues associated with the underrepresentation of BME leaders within the sector.

A number of themes arose in the following areas:

• Recruitment
• Governance
• The power of networks
• Learning and development
• Funding and regulation
• Taking a holistic approach to EDI within the sector

The programme responds in part to some of those challenges and we hope to bring new thinking to those leading on police and practice and key influencers and change agents within the sector.

Through a mixed format of panel discussion, presentations and thematic workshops topics have included:

• Taking a strategic approach to advancing race equality in higher education – what works
• Equality and Diversity in REF 2021
• Access, participation and race equality
• Cracking the Concrete Ceiling: insights and opportunities for organisations wanting to change the culture for their BME staff
• Lessons and insights from Scotland on advocacy and change within governance to advance race equality

Aims:

• Respond to the question of ‘whose business is it?’ in regard to creating change for the advancement of race equality for BME staff and leaders in UK HE
• Hear from a range of influencers at a national level around their views and responses to how to create channels for change
• Share useful insights and options around what works with colleagues and contributors working at various levels within the UK HE system

Who should attend:

This summit has been designed for senior leaders who are responsible for institutional and strategic change, those who are working towards race equality within HEIs and alumni (attendees and sponsors) of Diversifying Leadership and those leading their institutional Race Equality Charter Mark applications.

Attendees are expected to leave with:

• Information about strategies to champion change at a national level and how HEIs can respond
• Insights about how to create and lead channels for change
• Ideas, stimulus and networks useful at a personal and institutional level
• Having contributed to the shaping of national initiatives and next steps

Book for 2019

See Professor Fook’s blog on the interim findings of the Cracking the Concrete Ceiling study

Contact
programmes@advance-he.ac.uk 
+44 (0) 20 3468 4810