Our committee

• WIDE Community Chair - Richard Levell
• Head of Section (Psychology) – Eugene McSorley
• Head of Section (CWI) and School Director of EDI - Richard Levell
• Head of Section (Clinical Language Studies) – Vesna Stojanovik
• Outreach and Widening Participation Lead (RAM) – Fang Liu
• Environmental Sustainability Lead – Ciara McCabe
• Athena SWAN Lead – Gloria Wong
• Deputy Director of EDI for SPCLS – Gloria Wong
• School Director of Teaching and Learning – Rachel Pye
• School Director of Academic Tutoring and Student Wellbeing –Christos Pliastikas
• Diversity and Inclusion Support Officer (CWI - DISO) – Janette Bereza
• Research Division Leaders – Ingo Bojak
• Executive Administration representation – Gemma Mould
• UG/PGT Representative (Staff) – Rachel Pye
• UG/PGT Representative (Student) – Efemena Oyibo
• PGR Representative (Staff) – Ingo Bojak
• PGR Representative (Student) – Charlenne Ordonez Marino
• PGR Representative & GTA (Athena SWAN) - Steph Dodgers
• ECR Representative – Jess Eastwood

The PCLS Committee for Widening, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity will act in accordance with The University of Reading’s Strategy, Values and Leadership Principles, which are:

2020 – 2026 Strategic Plan

• Community- putting our people first
• Excellence- aspiring to the highest standards
• Sustainability- managing our resources for today and tomorrow
• Engaged University- impact beyond our campuses

• A love of learning
• Creating and sharing new knowledge
• Embracing and celebrating diversity of people and ideas
• Caring for our environment

• Resourceful: Create & Stablise
• Responsible: Nurture & Rationalise
• Respectful: Global & Local

• Provide self-assessment of the School’s position in relation to equity and diversity principles
• To review and consider National EDI Policy updates and PSRBs to plan for School response
• Understand from staff and students’ areas of strength and need for development in relation to EDI strategy within the School
• To oversee the wide range of EDI activity in the School
• To monitor progress against the objectives in the School’s EDI Action Plan, ensuring these are aligned with the EDI-relevant priorities for the different activity areas as well as University strategy
• To monitor progress against the School’s Athena Swan Action Plan and oversee the preparation and submission of applications to retain our Silver Award status
• To consider and plan the School assigned activity and project work of the DISOs and ensure appropriate levels of support to undertake this work
• To act as a conduit between UoR Network Meetings and the School
• To work with PCLS Research Clusters to ensure EDI considerations remain forefront within the planning, bidding and delivery of research within the School
• To ensure that the impact of EDI work within the school is monitored, recorded and shared as appropriate
• To steer the strategy for EDI work within the School
• To consider and plan how the School will widen its workforce and increase representation for those with protected characteristics