Meet the teams

EDI committee

The aim of our Equality and Diversity Committee is to provide an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to succeed regardless of the status of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

The committee:

• advises on priorities for equality and diversity actions across the school;
• reviews progress against specific sets of actions;
• provides recommendations for improvement and revision of actions;
• ensures that the proposed actions align with other institutional strategies and priorities;
• communicates equality and diversity policies in the school and the university;
• monitors the consistency in application of school and university-wide policies;
• keeps the school informed and updated on university-wide policies.

The committee membership is reviewed annually and the current team is:

• Dr Sara Jabbari EDI Lead
• Professor Olga Maleva Gender Equality Lead
• Dr Panayiota Touloupou Deputy EDI Lead (J-BJI Rep)
• Niamh Brereton (PGR Rep)
• Kiran Chauhan (ESO Rep)
• Dr Yin Hoon Chew, (Research/Teaching Fellow Rep)
• Dr Michael Dymond (Education Rep)
• Dr Ai Guan
• Dr Susana Gutierrez
• Dr Omar Kidwai (Research/Teaching Fellow Rep)
• Ms Sophie Kilmartin (Ops Team Rep)
• Dr David Leppinen
• Professor Chris Parker (Research Rep)
• Dr Rowland Seymour

Athena SWAN committee

The current team is:

• Professor Olga Maleva, Gender Equality Lead, Director of Staffing
• Dr Sara Jabbari, EDI Lead
• Professor Jon Bennett, Deputy Director of Research
• Ms Martha Campos, Operations Manager
• Dr David Craven
• Dr Michel van Garrel
• Dr Hui Li, International relations
• Dr Allan Lo, Recruitment
• Dr Richard Mycroft, Admissions
• Dr Sándor Németh, Director of Data

Student EDI representatives

• Jazmine Baxter
• Ishan Bhatka
• Niamh Brereton
• Aayushi Gala
• Yijun Gao
• Chloe Jackson
• Yonghan Li
• Kamiyla Robinson-Pascal
• Aditya Srivastav

Piscopia committee

• Rahma Abdulahi
• Niamh Brereton
• Rosie Evans
• Amy Tansell

University of Birmingham Piscopia Committee web page

Staff networks

The University of Birmingham has a number of staff networks that are run independently by staff from across the University and provide a supportive environment for staff to discuss common issues and concerns. The networks also act in an advisory role to the University through the Equality Executive Group (our senior equality body) and are supported by the Equality & Diversity Team. More details about these networks can be found on the staff networks intranet page.

All-School EDI meeting

We also hold at least one all-School EDI meeting each year to ensure everyone can get involved with our initiatives, and we have dedicated undergraduate and postgraduate taught EDI reps.

If you have any feedback about EDI within the School of Mathematics at Birmingham, please do get in touch with one of us!