The EDI committee

The Grantham Institute EDI committee established itself in 2019. The committee meets on a monthly basis and comprises the following people:

Upcoming meetings and minutes

Minutes from previous meetings (available to Grantham Institute staff only):

• EDI Committee meeting minutes 26 May 2021
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 23 June 2021  
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 21 July 2021‌
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 22 September 2021‌
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 27 October 2021‌
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 24 November 2021
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 26 January 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 23 February 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 27 April 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 25 May 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 22 June 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 28 September 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 26 October 2022
• EDI Committee meeting minutes 14 December 2022

Upcoming committee meeting dates:

2023 dates TBC

If you would like to attend one of our monthly committee meetings please get in contact with the committee chair, Emma Bowman at e.bowman@imperial.ac.uk.

Individual commitments by staff and students

• Professor Martin Siegert is co-Chair of the UK Diversity in Polar Science Initiative (DiPSI).
• Professor Richard Templer is Chair of the Chemistry Department’s Recruitment working group.
• Dr Bonnie Waring is a mentor through the Women In Soil Ecology program.
• Gosia Gayer is a Mental Health First Aider.
• Simon Levey helped the Imperial600 LGBT+ Staff Network to establish a reverse mentoring programme whereby senior staff can benefit from regular meetings with someone from a minority group at the College. Simon is co-investigator of a project to establish stakeholder mapping and relationships with groups that cross-sect environmental interests and minority characteristics, which won funding from Imperial’s EDI Centre Seed Fund.
• Anne Houston attended UKCGE International Conference on Health and Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers.
• Professor Sir Brian Hoskins spoke at an LGBT+ History Month 2021 event about climate change for the Imperial600 LGBT+ Staff Network, as part of a panel discussion “The other big issue in the room (Imperial access only)” that focused on climate change and workplace inclusivity for LGBT+ people.
• Dr Neil Jennings is on the Trustee Board of the Reach Foundation that is trying to improve educational and life opportunities for those from the Feltham community.