Celebrating Diversity

Diversity Day

Next Thursday is the College’s Diversity Day event when everyone focuses on celebrating the variety of backgrounds and cultures within College as well as raising awareness of the 9 protected characteristics (age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation). Library+ will have a stand there so do come and talk to us and have a look at our resources and marriage ceremonies of the world quiz.

The Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010 legislates against discrimination (including indirect discrimination), harassment and victimisation because of these characteristics as well as making sure adjustments are made for disabled people to ensure they have equal access to services. (Only this week, someone won a case in court ensuring that more is done to ensure disabled people are better able to use buses).

Library Resources

In the Library we have various books which cover subjects such as racism, disability, gender, marriage and partnership, religion and human rights.
The Issues series is a good starting point for a whole range of topics like these and are well used as they are a good introduction to some very current and relevant issues discussed on the news and in society. They contain a selection of articles which are short and easy to read.

Issues Online e-book

However, we not only have these in print but also have online access to these with extra material through Issues Online  from the Electronic Resources page (under Library+ on the menu bar) on Moodle. Just use your network ID and password to access these e-books or to search by subject either inside or outside College. The resource includes extra material such as videos, graphs and also curriculum/ assignment ideas for tutors.

We also subscribe to the Equality Review magazine which can be accessed online from Moodle. Login details can be found there with the relevant link.

Videos

To finish, we've found 2 videos for you.The first is a collection of snippets from BBC3 interviews with disabled people called Stupid Questions not to ask Disabled People. (There are also other similar videos available for other protected characteristics).

The second video is a more light-hearted look at the topic of gender discrimination. It is a spoof public information video (from the 1940s) by Harry Enfield. Enjoy!