Defining Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
Equality:
- Ensuring that everyone is given equal access to resources and opportunities to utilise their skills and talents
- Taking a systems approach to what we do and how we do it and identifying and removing long standing, structural barriers to success
Diversity
- Being reflective of the wider community
- Having a diverse community, with people from a broad range of backgrounds represented in all areas and at all levels
Inclusion
- An approach where groups or individuals with different backgrounds are welcomed, culturally and socially accepted, and treated equally
- Engaging with each person as an individual and making colleagues feel valued
- A sense of belonging that is respectful of people for who they are
- Feeling supported to enable us to do our best
Equity
- involves trying to understand and give people what they need to achieve their potential; promoting notions of fairness, justice, entitlements and rights.
The scope of EDI in our work
| Equality Act 2010 – protected characteristics | |
| Age | Race |
| Disability | Religion and belief |
| Gender reassignment | Sex |
| Marriage and civil partnership | Sexual orientation |
| Pregnancy and maternity | |
EDI and health and social care research: why it matters
- Our research needs to identify and target the populations and geographies where need is greatest
- We need to challenge and change research practices which exclude the most marginalised and underserved people
- We need to reduce research waste resulting from conducting studies which are not generalisable to the wider population
- We need to know whether some groups are adversely affected by a new intervention, even if it is effective for the majority of people
- We need to avoid harm by developing interventions which have been tested on a diverse sample
EDI Policies and Statements we follow are: