Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee

Constituency and members

Constituency of members

Ref	Constituency
1	Chair, PVC Enterprise, Partnerships and Engagement (ex officio)
2	Head of Equality and Diversity (ex officio)
3	Director of Human Resources (ex officio)
4	Academic Registrar or nominee (ex officio)
5	Head of Access and Outreach (ex officio)
6	Internal communications manager (ex officio)
7	Chair/Co-Chairs of the LGBTI+ Matters Staff Network (ex officio)
8	Chair of the Staff Race Equality Forum (ex officio)
9	Chair/Co-Chairs of INCLUDE (Disabled staff network) (ex officio)
10	University of York Students' Union Community and Wellbeing Officer (ex officio)
11	University of York Students' Union Community and Wellbeing Officer
12-15	Four members nominated from the professional support staff
16	Academic member of staff who is also a member of Senate
17	Academic member of staff co-opted by the Chair of EDIC
18-21	Three members of the academic staff (one from each of the three faculties)
22-23	Trade Union representative (one from each Union)
24	EDI Exchange Project Director

Membership 2024-2025

Ref	Name	Department	Term expires
1	Kiran Trehan	PVC Enterprise, Partnerships and Engagement - Chair	N/A
2	Maria Ayaz and Anna Reader	Head of Equality and Diversity	N/A
3	Rachael Millhouse	Director of Human Resources	N/A
4	Tom Banham	Academic Registrar	N/A
5	Rebecca Clark	Head of Access and Outreach	N/A
6	Deb Ward	Internal Communications Manager	N/A
7	Derek Wann and Liz Wands-Murray	Co-Chairs of the Rainbow Alliance staff network	N/A
8	Jan Hardman and Avtar Matharu	Chair/Co-Chairs of the Staff Race Equality Forum	N/A
9	Alice Bennett, Jamie Wood and Joanna Malefaki	Chair/Co-Chairs of INCLUDE (Disabled staff network)	N/A
10	Freddy Russell	Community and Wellbeing Officer, University of York Students' Union (York SU)	31 July 2025
11	Tanisha Jain	Vice President for Wellbeing and Community, University of York Students' Union (York SU)	31 July 2025
12	Adam Hewitt	Professional Support Staff	30 September 2025
13	Jan Ball-Smith	Professional Support Staff	30 September 2026
14	Simone Quinn	Professional Support Staff	30 September 2025
15	Vacant	Professional Support Staff	30 September 2025
16	Emilie Murphy	Academic - Member of Senate	31 August 2025
17	Karl Atkin	Academic - Co-opted member	31 August 2025
18	Richard Johns	Academic - Faculty of Arts and Humanities	31 August 2025
19	Samarthia Thankappan	Academic - Faculty of Sciences	31 August 2025
20	Vanita Sundaram	Academic - Faculty of Social Sciences	31 August 2025
21	Francess Daly	Trade Union Representative (Unison)	30 September 2025
22	Sally Floyd	Trade Union Representative (Unite)	30 September 2025
23	Ana Duarte and Joanna de Groot	Trade Union Representative (UCU)	30 September 2025
24	Michelle Hughes	EDI Exchange Project Director	N/A
In attendance
1	Chris Brunt	Equality and Diversity Officer - Secretary	N/A
2	Vicki Bruce	Member of Council	N/A
3	Jonny Lovell	Equality and Diversity Manager	N/A