Race Equality Charter

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What is the Race Equality Charter?

The Race Equality Charter (REC) is an initiative led by Advance HE that supports universities to improve the representation, progression, and success of Black, Asian and ethnically minoritised staff and students. By working towards this charter mark, the university has committed to identifying barriers, creating action plans, and driving meaningful change to advance racial equity.

Fostering an Anti- Racist Culture

Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter provides a framework through which institutions work to identify and self-reflect on institutional and cultural barriers standing in the way of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students.

Race Equality Charter principles

The Race Equality Charter is underpinned by five fundamental guiding principles:

Racial inequalities are a significant issue within higher education. Racial inequalities are not necessarily overt, isolated incidents. Racism is an everyday facet of UK society and racial inequalities manifest themselves in everyday situations, processes and behaviours
UK higher education cannot reach its full potential unless it can benefit from the talents of the whole population and until individuals from all ethnic backgrounds can benefit equally from the opportunities it affords
In developing solutions to racial inequalities, it is important that they are aimed at achieving long-term institutional culture change, avoiding a deficit model where solutions are aimed at changing the individual
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students are not a homogenous group. People from different ethnic backgrounds have different experiences of and outcomes from/within higher education, and that complexity needs to be considered in analysing data and developing actions
All individuals have multiple identities, and the intersection of those different identities should be considered wherever possible

The university proudly achieved a bronze award from the Race Equality Charter in August 2023. This highlighted both the progress made on advancing race equality at the institution and the need to continue to take steps in the right direction.

Since the bronze award, the university has launched a combined charter mark group, chaired by Professor Silke Machold, Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. This group has focussed on bringing together actions plans for the Race Equality Charter and Athena Swan.

The institutional lead for race equity is Professor Leanne Norman.

The action plans outline dedicated work led by staff across the university to embed race equity into the culture of the Leeds Beckett university.

To find out more about the Race Equality Charter visit our Advance HE.

If you have any questions about our work towards the Race Equality Charter, please contact our Equality and Inclusion Team via equality@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

View the REC submission