Cardiff University receives Race Equality Charter Bronze Award

Cardiff University has received the Race Equality Charter Bronze Award 2025.

Awarded by Advance HE in recognition of Cardiff University’s commitment to understanding and tackling issues issues faced by its Black, Asian and minority ethnic community.

The award highlights the university’s efforts of achieving racial equality and developing inclusive cultures among students and staff at the university. 

By working with institutions to critically reflect and act on institutional and cultural barriers, the Race Equality Charter aims to advance the representation, experience, progression and success of black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students within higher education. 

The university will now initiate a five-year program dedicated to breaking down the barriers faced by minority groups across the university. 

Professor Damien Walford Davies, chair of the university’s EDI sub-committee, said: “This Bronze award recognises not a job completed but rather an institution’s critical understanding of what further needs to shift, and its commitment to ensure that happens. Over the last 14 months a Self-Assessment Team (SAT) drawn from across the University has worked hard to identify and understand the disparities and challenges around race that exist on our campus.

“Consultations with our staff and student community, along with extensive data analysis gave the SAT a comprehensive picture of the University’s challenges – and opportunities –  and led to the development of an action plan… ‘Our Future, Together’ – with our Race Equality Charter action plan and our Strategic Equality Plan so as to coordinate and mainstream our anti-racism actions.”

In April 2023, De Monfort University (DMU) won a silver award under the Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter, becoming the first higher education institution to receive the award in the UK. 

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Cardiff’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Wendy Larner, said: “The Bronze Award is great recognition of our work to uncover the issues – and uncomfortable truths – facing our Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and I am grateful to the SAT for their time, energy and expertise in this process.”

Adding: “We are committed to delivering change and are unequivocal in our stance: race equality is integral to our aim of creating a genuinely inclusive and welcoming University, rooted in Wales but looking out to the world, in which all members of our community can thrive.”