Russell Group unis which are actually trying to be more inclusive of trans and non-binary students

So, the Daily Mail decided to audit how different UK unis are “queering” their courses to make them more inclusive for non-binary and transgender students. Here’s a rundown of all the Russell Group unis which were mentioned in the audit, plus what they’re actually doing to improve the representation of trans and non-binary people. Because we at The Tab believe we should be celebrating when Russell Group and other UK unis become more inclusive of their trans and non-binary students x

University of Exeter

Students wrote a Trans Inclusion Booklet and the uni distributed it to staff. It gives lecturers practical advice for making their courses more inclusive of trans, non-binary and other genderqueer students. The leaflet calls for staff to add more transgender academics to reading lists, as “this will show that transgender identities are normal”.

University of Leeds

Leeds uni looking nice and sunny
(Credit: Chemical Engineer by Creative Commons)

Amy Wilson and Professor Bridgette Bewick from Leeds’s medical department wrote a paper called “Decolonising: Queering the curriculum“. The research looked at how queer people often don’t trust doctors, and suggested ways to end “tokenistic and sporadic representation of LGBTQIA+ people in the medical curriculum” and move towards actual change. The paper called for lecturers to include content on queer women’s sexual health and non-traditional pregnancies in their curriculums.

University College London (UCL)

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The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is the very highly-ranked architecture school at UCL. The staff wrote a paper called “Queering the Bartlett curriculum” which looked at ways they could train architects to be more considerate of queer perspectives when they design buildings – such as not just building single-sex male/female toilets.

University of Warwick

The uni’s higher education academy runs a Queering University Programme which “encourages teaching & learning, pastoral, and other practices that are inclusive of LGBTQUIA+ people, and improves understanding in the classroom and wider university settings.” The programme runs a trans community support group and provides resources to help staff become more understanding of LGBT+ issues.

University of York

Flares aka York’s unofficial queer nightclub

So, the Daily Mail’s audit talks about how the English literature department at York held a seminar to “celebrate ways of queering the curriculum”.

The department now runs modules specialising in queer literature and has a reading list of texts by queer writers.

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