School of Media, Arts and Humanities - for students and staff

Staff Experience

part of the Culture, Equity and Inclusion portfolio

Chair of Culture, Equity and Inclusion Committee (CEI): Sarah Maltby

Professional Services lead: Grace Merry G.Merry@sussex.ac.uk

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Culture, Equity and Inclusion Committee (CEI)

In 2022, the Faculty decided to merge the Staff Experience and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) committee into a single committee, CEI, whose terms of reference can be found here. This was to avoid duplicating work and to ensure that EDI was central to the Faculty's work around staff experience.

The Committee is chaired by the Associate Dean for Culture, Equity and Inclusion and aims to include broad representation of staff across the Faculty. Its current membership is:

Sarah Maltby (Chair), Grace Merry (PS support), Flora Derounian (Athena Swan lead), Cecile Chevalier, Emma Newport, Justyna Robinson, Katie Walter (Athena Swan lead), Naaz Rashid (Director, Race Equity), Paige Thompson, Rachel Stenner, Sally Entwistle, Sandra Nelson (Director, LGCTQIA+ Equity, Emma Harrison (Director, Disability Equity), Andrea Haslanger (Director, Disability Equity), Hana Qugana (Deputy Director, Race Equity), Noemi Yoza (Deputy Director, Race Equity), Amy Howlett

Committee meetings are advertised in Faculty News and are open to all staff. Anyone who would like to put an item on the committee’s agenda should email Grace Merry G.Merry@sussex.ac.uk

Guiding principles for Media, Arts and Humanities

Inclusion: creating a broad, collective identity for students and staff, strengthened by our differences, which recognises our responsibilities and responds to local and global communities.

Sustainability: recognising long-term effects alongside short-term aims, and countering the toxic effects of unsustainable work patterns by acknowledging and respecting the connection between individuals, the community and our environment.

Collaboration: fostering cooperation and coll­­aboration between staff and students by sharing ideas and resources fairly and openly.

Social justice: we acknowledge power asymmetries among the different communities, cultures and identities represented in our faculty and believe education is a means for promoting social justice by encouraging respect, dialogue and the willingness to question.

Learning: understanding that education never ends, for any of us; we are all here to learn from each other.

Flexibility: respecting everyone’s need for flexible work and study patterns that are responsive to changing circumstances.

Staff Development

The Faculty supports training and continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities for all staff. Most academic staff have time allocated in their PAW for training and CPD. Please discuss your needs with your line manager (Annual Development Review) is a good opportunity to do this).

Information about the university's training/CPD opportunities can be found on the Organisational Development website.

The university's Educational Enhancement unit offers seminars, events and workshops.

The Faculty has developed its own array of excellent teaching-support resources on our Professional Development pages. Among the highlights is CPD Bites, a series of short videos in which colleagues share ideas and experience about teaching.

The Faculty's Director of Continuing Professional Development, Sue Robbins, has created a directory of links to further teaching-related resources

Language short courses are available. MAH staff are able to participate free of charge if a minimum threshold of fee paying students has been reached. University staff outside MAH are eligible for a £10 fee discount

Mentoring

Mentoring in Media, Arts and Humanities: 

Would you like a mentor? Or have you considered being a mentor? We have a small group of trained mentors (and are actively looking for more) who are ready and willing to help with career development, support, sharing ideas and just generally listening – whatever you need. And the university has training available for those who would like to join the team. If you would like to know more, please contact Sarah Maltby (S.Maltby@sussex.ac.uk)

University wide Staff Support 

 

Staff Policies 

Staff Experience Committee

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