Equal Opportunities Committee

Duties

• to bear overarching responsibility within the disciplinary domain for monitoring and evaluating efforts in support of equal opportunities;
• to serve as the Disciplinary Domain Board’s consultation body;
• to plan and execute equal opportunities projects;
• to act as the steering group for the faculty’s mentoring programme, whose coordinators should report annually to the Committee on the progress of the programme;
• to draft and follow up on domain-specific measures concerning equal opportunities.
   

Composition

The Deputy Vice-Rector is the chair. The Advisory Committees for Education, Research and Collaboration each propose two members of a different gender, after which the Working Committee decides on a member from each Advisory Committee. The first deputy chair of the Recruitment Committee is a member. A further two faculty members are appointed by the Disciplinary Domain Board on the recommendation of the Deputy Vice-Rector. Two student representatives (of which one is preferably a doctoral student) form part of the Equal Opportunities Committee. The faculty’s equal opportunities coordinator for students is co-opted to the Committee, with the right to attend and speak at meetings. Union organisations may each appoint a representative with the right to attend and speak at meetings.The Equal Opportunities Committee appoints a deputy chair from among its members.