Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Event
Event details
In this interactive workshop, you will gain confidence and practical knowledge on how you can best integrate equality, diversity and inclusion values in your policy impact. You are not expected to have any prior specialist knowledge in equality, diversity and inclusion or policy impact, but a general understanding will be helpful. During the workshop, the trainer will talk on why these values and this topic is vital for policy making and policy impact, and provide some practical examples on easy ways to ensure you’re taking these into consideration. Alongside this, the workshop will encourage you to examine power structures and how they fit into your own research and policy impact work, and how to respond to this. This workshop is not intended to capture everything in this space, but it will provide a good starting point for those wishing to learn and more importantly, do, more. By the end of the workshop you will ❖ Explore why understanding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is vital for policy impact ❖ Gain a better understanding of the current landscape and what this might mean for future policy making ❖ Understand and practice using some tools in accessibility and inclusion for policy impact
Speaker information
Laura Bea,Laura Bea (MSc) is an alumnus of the University of Southampton and of Public Policy Southampton, with a 7+ year background of campaigns and advocacy, and a strong knowledge of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. They worked with Public Policy Southampton in over 2020 and 2021, developing the units EDI Action Plan and Report in consultation with our membership. She previously worked for the University of Southampton Students’ Union, and as a student led a successful University wide campaign reforming strategies and practices around responding to and preventing sexual violence on campus. Her academic work centres on the use of creative arts in policy making processes and intersectional environmentalism, and was recently published in the UN Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development Goals: Reduced Inequalities. Laura has been asked back to PPS to deliver this workshop as part of the Action Plan, and currently works for Student Hubs, a charity dedicated to facilitating student volunteering.