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People & Culture

In this section

The People and Culture committee works to make the Department of Psychiatry as supportive, welcoming and inclusive as possible.

Members of the psychiatry department at the summer picnic © Morten Kingelbach

Professor Catherine HarmerI’m Catherine Harmer the Associate Head of Department for People and Culture. On these pages you will find information about our working groups; our upcoming plans and recent events.  People and Culture includes our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusivity. 

It also includes a focus on people – including facilitating career development, nourishing a positive research and working culture and working together to attract and retain people working in the department for academic, professional and support staff and students.

Our working groups feed into a people and culture oversight committee; each working group has developed an action plan for their focus over the next 12-18 months. Together we have created themed months in the department, to tie into national dates, and to organise our talks, blogs, training sessions and other initiatives around this topic.  

Working Groups 

Racial equality Career development
Family-friendly and flexible working Mental Wellbeing  
Early Career Researcher social group

On the Committee we also have:

Anti-racism, Bullying and Harassment

We are committed to making the Department a place where everybody feels welcome, supported and able to thrive. As part of this work, we have published a departmental report on anti-racism, bullying and harassment (internal only). You can also read some FAQs about the report.

Our harassment advisors are led by Marieke Martens, who is also on the People & Culture Oversight Committee.

Find out more about how to get support and report incidents of harassment and bullying

Department themeS

We now have themed terms to enable our work to have a larger strategic focus.

Read a summary of our work in 2024

Read a summary of our work in 2023 

News and achievements

Department Values and Behaviours Framework

People and Culture Round-up 2023

100 per cent of Psychiatry's research environment rated as world-leading in REF 2021

Athena Swan Silver Award

 

 

 

 

Committee Members