ENHANCING THE EMPLOYABILITY OF LGBT PEOPLE
Are university careers services providing the best service for LGBT students who, as graduates, interns or postgraduates, face a different set of challenges? Well, some are , some are not. Best practice includes dedicated pages of advice, LGBT employer events, … Continued
The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) is the expert membership organisation for higher education student career development and graduate employment professionals and I presented a session on ensuring their services were inclusive of and attractive to LGBT students. … Continued
The student mental health charity, Student Minds, has conducted a survey and report: LGBTQ+ Student Mental Health: The challenges and needs of gender, sexual and romantic minorities in Higher Education. I was invited to a discussion of the survey’s findings along … Continued
The Higher Education LGBT+ Network of Networks has been running for over a year now. It brings together university LGBT+ staff networks to share good practice and hear from guest speakers. I have been an adviser to the Network from … Continued
The University runs a course for health professionals who teach undergraduate medical students, Education For Health Professionals, E4HP . There are two groups: the first, about 40 people, who are recently qualified and return to teach undergraduates specific hospital skills. The … Continued
It seems there is more and more research being conducted in the area of LGBT people’s experiences. I was delighted to take part in an interview by a PhD student from the University of Westminster Business School who asked me about … Continued
I had a great meeting with the Imperial Outreach team today discussing how to ensure LGBT pupils are included in their various activities. We discussed the importance of working with current LGBT students and staff and making sure any outreach … Continued
HEPI produce a survey every year, the Student Academic Experience Survey. This year for the first time, they reported student perceptions broken down under sexual orientation, well, LGB. There weren’t enough responses to make ‘T’ responses robust enough. I hope … Continued
I ran a workshop on setting up and sustaining LGBT staff networks. We had 22 participants from across the UK, mostly from universities, but also from local councils. The 3 hour session was very interactive with input from me about … Continued
This was an exceptional event for two reasons: (a) the numbers – 220 delegates, the largest LGBT+ conference I’ve been too outside of Stonewall’s annual Workplace Conference (b) the speakers and presenters were human beings! At some conferences the speakers … Continued