We receive support from many places. Our partners and collaborators have influenced this Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy as follows:
- King's Health Partners: we receive academic support from King’s Health Partners [1]. King’s Health Partners is a collaboration between hospitals and universities in the Southeast London area. King’s Health Partners’ five-year plan centres on delivering better health for all. One way they plan to approach this is by developing and evaluating opportunities for black and minority ethnic staff and students. This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy supports King’s Health Partners’ approach.
- King’s College Hospital: we are based in King’s College Hospital, and therefore we align ourselves with the hospital strategy, which is to be BOLD [2]:
- Consisting of Brilliant people
- Delivering Outstanding care
- Developing Leaders in research and education
- With Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion at the centre of it all
We plan to collaborate with colleagues from the King’s College Hospital equality, diversity, and inclusion team, and we also align ourselves with their first-ever ‘Roadmap to Inclusion’ [3]. This sets out some key actions including the introduction of EDI training and mentoring programmes and increasing the diversity of research teams. There is also a Research Health Inequalities Group, which is part of the hospital Health Inequalities Programme. The group has many priorities that fit with the scope of this Strategy. For example, the group will develop inclusive communications with patients to encourage their participation in research. We plan to work with the Research Health Inequalities Group as outlined in goal 3 in our action plan.
- King's College London: we are academically based in King’s College London. We plan to collaborate with colleagues from the King’s College London equality, diversity, and inclusion team. We would like to learn from them, particularly in relation to the Diversity Matters and Trans Matters training programmes they deliver [4]. We benefit from training that academic staff have available to them in these areas.
- South London and the Maudsley (SLaM) and its Biomedical Research Centre (BRC): We have significant interactions with SLaM and its BRC. The SLaM BRC has considerable expertise around equality, diversity and inclusion that we can leverage to the advantage of the King’s CRF.
- NIHR: we receive funding from the NIHR. We are also supported by the NIHR’s EDI infrastructure, available resources, and guidance.
To note: We also received funding from the Wellcome Trust when we were first established. More information on our funders can be found here.
- Public members: our public members are key partners and collaborators. As more public members join us, their local community contacts and networks will be invaluable in helping us to build a diverse group. We want the group to be reflective of the South London population we serve.
[1] https://www.kingshealthpartners.org/
[2] https://www.kch.nhs.uk/about/our-strategy
[3] https://www.kch.nhs.uk/document/roadmap-to-inclusion-2022-2024/
[4] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/professional-services/diversity/edi-training-for-staff
To view the acronyms written out in full, please visit the 'acronyms' section of the strategy by clicking here
