Co-organiser Annabel Crawshaw-Brown writes a Reflection on the one-day workshop on the Senses and Disability held at St Andrews University and online on 19 April 2024. This event was organised by Justin Lorenzo Biggi, Annabel Crawshaw-Brown and Sarah Prince, and funded by St Andrews University and the CUCD EDI Committee. The most crucial takeaway fromContinue reading "Reflection: Senses and Disability Workshop"| CUCD EDI
The CUCD EDI Committee is pleased to announce that the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer Meet-up at the Classical Association Conference 2024, University of Warwick, will be held in-person on Sunday 24 March, 12.00-13.00, in OC 1.07. If you are an EDI Officer for your Classics or Ancient History Department (broadly conceived) in the UKContinue reading "EDI Officer Network Meeting – Classical Association Conference 2024"| CUCD EDI
The CUCD-EDI committee is pleased to publish the Pandemic Stories Report on the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Report is based on data from a survey that collected the experiences of scholars of the ancient Mediterranean world (Classics and Ancient History) in Higher Education in the UK in the first eighteen months of theContinue reading "Pandemic Stories Report"| CUCD EDI
We are delighted to announce the launch on October 25th of the first ever UK Class in Classics Survey, sponsored by the Network for Working-Class Classicists and the Council of University Classics Departments. This survey is designed to gather data on class demographics and experiences in the discipline of Classics in the UK. It is openContinue reading "UK Class in Classics Survey"| CUCD EDI
Lilah Grace Canevaro, Mirko Canevaro, Henry Stead, Eris Williams-Reed The CUCD Equality and Diversity Report published in 2020 offered a valuable insight into the ‘current state of the discipline’ and has since prompted some productive actions across the UK and beyond. At the outset, the report indicated that its analysis focused on gender and race,Continue reading "If Class Were a Protected Characteristic"| CUCD EDI
Access the Survey here After more than eighteen months of living within the COVID-19 pandemic, the truism that we are living through extraordinary times has worn thin. And yet the changes brought about by the pandemic have been unprecedented, and so far from our living experiences pre-COVID as to be unthinkable. The pace of suchContinue reading "CUCD-EDI Survey on the Covid-19 Pandemic"| CUCD EDI
Dr Cora Beth Fraser, autistic classicist, Honorary Associate at The Open University and Director of Asterion How do you build a community for people who prefer to avoid unnecessary social interaction? How do you achieve visible representation of a group who risk discrimination at work if they talk too frankly about their problems? How doContinue reading "Building Asterion: Support for Neurodiversity in Classics"| CUCD EDI
Organised by Professor Barbara Goff and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis At the start of July 2021, the Inclusive Classics Initiative, led by Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading) and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews), held its second online, international workshop ‘Towards a More Inclusive Classics II’. This event was co-chaired by Barbara Goff (UniversityContinue reading "Inclusive Classics Initiative: Report on ‘Towards a More Inclusive Classics II’ Inter...| CUCD EDI
Dr Zena Kamash FSA, Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Dept of Classics, Royal Holloway Zena.Kamash@rhul.ac.uk @ZenaKamash In 2019 I was invited to give the keynote lecture at the Theoretical Ro…| CUCD EDI
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By Dr Peter Swallow and Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson Access to the study of Classical subjects in schools relies on ‘wealth or luck’ (Hunt and Holmes-Henderson, 2021). The availability of Latin, Gree…| CUCD EDI
