Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
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university policies
Our university has regulations, policies, and codes of practice relating to our specific activities. These set out the formal principles, requirements, standards, roles, responsibilities, and procedures to be adopted across the university so that we can conduct business effectively.
Policy Centre
The university's Policy Centre (below) enables ready access to well-developed and clear documents that adhere to legislation, regulation, and best practice, as well as aligning with the university’s core values and supporting the achievement of strategic objectives. These documents provide the guiding principles used to set direction, adopted by the university for delivering its services and responsibilities.
It's important that staff, students, and other third parties engaged with the university familiarise themselves with regulations, policies, and codes that apply across the university, as well as those that are relevant to specific areas.
University policies and key documents
The Schedule of University policies is the central reference point for all key university policies as well as key strategies, frameworks, regulations, codes of practice, and statements, setting out headline policy information.
Please use the links in the Policy Centre to access individual documents. Owners/key contacts are listed within each policy and should be consulted for specific questions relating to the application of the respective policy.
Policy templates and guidance
To enhance and standardise the quality of policies, a structured policy template and guidance document are available to support colleagues in the development of new university policies, review of existing policies, and seeking formal approval. The university's Document Classification Guidance sets out definitions of frameworks, regulations, policies, codes, procedures, and guidance, based on best practice.
Advice and further information
For further information relating to the development or approvals of policies, or for bespoke needs, please contact the Policy & Projects Officer, via Governance@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.
Freedom of Speech Assurance
Nothing in the University’s policies and procedures is intended to restrict the lawful freedom of speech or academic freedom of staff, students, governors or visiting speakers. All policies will be interpreted and applied in accordance with the University’s statutory freedom of speech duties, and in a manner that does not impose obligations beyond those necessary to meet other legal requirements.
- Articles of Government and Instrument of Government
- Code of Practice on Freedom of Speech, Events Code of Conduct and Approval of Events Procedure
- Conflicts of Interest Policy
- Counter Fraud, Anti-Bribery & Corruption Policy and Response Plan
- Engagement of Auditors for Non-Audit Services Policy
- Ethics & Integrity Framework
- Governor Code of Conduct
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Guidance
- Risk Management Policy and Risk Appetite Statement
- Safeguarding Policy
- Social Media Policy
- University’s Approach to the Prevent Duty
- Whistleblowing (‘Public Interest Disclosure’) Policy
For Human Resources policies, procedures and guidance please visit our Human Resources A-Z
- Access to information policy
- Data breach reporting procedure
- Data protection impact assessment template (docx)
- Data protection policy
- Information classification scheme
- Information governance framework
- Information management and security policy
- Privacy notice – Alumni
- Privacy notice – Archive
- Privacy notice – CCTV
- Privacy notice – Colleagues
- Privacy notice – Potential colleagues
- Privacy notice – Public involvement in research activities
- Privacy notice – Research participant
- Privacy notice – Beckett Sport
- Privacy notice – Students
- Privacy notice – Visitors and events
- Privacy statement - University webpages
- Records management policy
- Records retention schedule (xlsx)
- Student suicide prevention – Information sharing statement (docx)
- University surveillance systems code of practice
- Annual research integrity statements
- Code of practice for research awards (pdf)
- Due diligence policy (pdf)
- eThesis policy (pdf)
- Intellectual property (IP) policy (pdf)
- Open research policy (pdf)
- Policy for investigating allegations of misconduct in research (pdf)
- Research ethics policy (pdf)
- Statement on the use of research metrics for research assessment at institutional level (pdf)
- Academic honesty
- Research awards
- Data management plan (Research)
- Document retention policy (research and research records)
- GDPR management in research policy
- Academic regulations
- Access and participation plan
- Admissions policy
- Inclusive learning, teaching, assessment and feedback framework
- Preventing and addressing bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct policy
- Recording of taught sessions
- Standards of Inclusive Practice
- Student code of conduct
- Student contract
- Student regulations (includes relevant documents listed in scheule 1 of the student contract)
- Student regulations archive
- Students’ Union code of practice
- Budget management framework
- Carbon management strategy
- Corporate social responsibility statement
- Estates strategy (staff only)
- Financial regulations
- Financial statements
- Modern slavery and human trafficking statement of compliance
- Modern slavery and human trafficking guidance
- Procurement strategy
- Sustainability policy
- Sustainable procurement policy
- Transport strategy
