LJMU Religion & Belief Workshops “Understanding religious diversity of our students and staff community”

LJMU Religion & Belief Workshops 

“Understanding religious diversity of our students and staff community”

LJMU’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Team, are proud to be working in partnership with Zia Chaudhry (Director of LJMU Foundation for Citizenship), Zane Abdo (LJMU Muslim Adviser/Chaplin), Rabbi Natan Fagleman (LJMU Jewish Chaplain), Hannah Padfield (LJMU Anglican Chaplain), Father Neil Ritchie (LJMU Catholic Chapain) and other external consultants in order to offer LJMU Staff (& Students*), the opportunity to participate in a bespoke, half day Religion & Belief workshop.

To book your place please visit the online LJMU Staff Development Calendar

WORKSHOP DATES (2020):  

• Friday 13th March 2020
• Wednesday 13th May 2020

[ HALF DAY WORKSHOP TIMES:   10:00 – 12:30/13:00  ]

The Aim Of The Training Session Is To Help Participants:

• Develop a deeper understanding of different religions and beliefs.
• Building Good Relations with People of Different Faiths and Beliefs.
• Skills for working and studying as part of a diverse university environment.
• Actions that can be detrimental to the general wellbeing of staff and students, which can also be unlawful.
• Reflect on any unconscious bias that may lead us to make assumptions about people who are different from ourselves.
• The University’s obligations under the Equality Act 2010.
• Explore key features of religion & belief in Higher Education and its effects on student and staff.
• The right of employees and students who do not hold a religious belief to be treated no less favourably than their religious colleagues.
• Develop a strategy for individual action.

*NB: The workshop schedule above is subject the change

Questions?  Please contact LJMU Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Team via email equality@ljmu.ac.uk or Tel.  0151 231 8660/8141