Useful External Websites

The Equal Opportunities Commission is the leading agency working to eliminate sex discrimination in 21st Century Britain.

Equality Challenge Unit was created in partnership between the Funding Councils and Universities UK, brings together equal opportunities initiatives and good practice from across the Higher Education sector.

Disability Rights Commission (DRC). The DRC are working towards a society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens

Partnership for Equality: Action for Higher Education, guidance and recommendations from the Joint Negotiating Committee for HE Staff (JNCHES) and the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) on the application of all present and prospective legislative requirements on equality in employment.

Opportunity Now is a business-led campaign that works with employers to realise the full potential of women at all levels and in all sectors of the workforce. It challenges complacency and tackles the barriers to a fully inclusive workforce.

Stonewall works to achieve legal equality and social justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexual people.

Press for Change is a political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgender people in the United Kingdom, through legislation and social change.

Anti-Racism Toolkit produced by the University of Leeds, this is a useful and thought-provoking online resource.

Association of Women in Science and Engineering. This site aims to advance the participation of women in the sciences.

Disability.gov.uk provides helpful advice on disability rights and legislation to help establish fully comprehensive and enforceable civil rights for disabled people in the UK.

SET - Promoting Science, Engineering and technology for Women aims to attract women into SET subjects and careers and also to improve progression for women up the career ladder

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. The site contains some good discussion forums for race and disability.

The Scottish Association of Black Researchers (SABRE) is an association of Black people living or working in Scotland who are interested in issues of social research.

Under the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000, higher education institutions were required to have race equality schemes and action plans in place by May 2002. HEFCE and the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) were interested to learn how institutions have implemented race equality since then, and the outcomes that have been achieved. The ECU commissioned OPM to review the progress made in a random sample of 55 universities and colleges. This report gives an overview of findings from this review of progress. It identifies examples of good practice from which other institutions can learn, and highlights areas of weakness and ways in which the ECU might promote further progress.