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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Music

The principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) underpin the life of our community in the Department of Music.

We strive to create a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone is treated fairly and given equal opportunity to reach their full potential.

Music Student with clarinet

This page outlines our EDI principles; scroll to the bottom of the page for links to further pages introducing our key EDI initiatives.

Music can be a powerful force to unite people, but its practice, training and scholarship can also often be implicated in the production and maintenance of inequalities based on gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, socioeconomic background and other factors.

Music Students Graduation

We are committed to acknowledging and reflecting on these inequalities in our learning and teaching throughout the curriculum, embedding critical analysis of the wider values that underlie our subject.

Music Student in the Electroacoustic Studio

Log in to find further EDI information for members of the Department of Music, and resources for the wider university community.

 

  

EDI Committee

The Department of Music’s active EDI Committee holds strategic oversight for promoting EDI principles and action in the department.
Student Playing Steinway Piano

Decolonisation

Our ongoing work to address crucial issues of decolonisation, as concerns our learning and research in the context of wider Music Studies.
Music Students Attending Lecture

Gender Equality

We hold a Bronze Award from the Athena Swan Charter and continue to advance its principles of gender equality.
Music Students Singing Group

EDI Discussion Group

A forum open to all members of our community for discussion of EDI materials and reflection on our work and practices.
EDI Discussion Group