About the Race Equality Steering Group

The role of the Race Equality Steering Group (RESG) is to advocate for and work to ensure an inclusive, welcoming and equitable working and learning environment for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students and staff.  From September 2026, the RESG will oversee the implementation of the Race Equality Charter Action Plan. RESG membership is comprised of representatives from across the University. RESG reports to the University’s central Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC)

Dr Elaine Webster has assumed the role of Chairperson for the Race Equality Steering Group since September 2024. Dr Webster is a Reader in the Law School and has served since 2022 as Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The RESG is sponsored by Professor Douglas Brodie, Associate Principal for Social Inclusion.

The RESG works to actively understand and improve educational and employment experiences and outcomes for BAME and staff through our culture, structures, processes, and learning and teaching.

The RESG was formed in 2023 and meets 3 times per year (with more frequent meetings of sub-groups). In 2025-26, RESG meetings were paused to allow Race Equality Charter Self-Assessment Team to fully focus on its work.

The RESG is the successor of the Race Equality Working Group (REWG) convened from 2020 to 2022. In the short to medium term, the RESG is providing oversight to the University's implementation of the REWG recommendations: This link opens a PDF document and leading the University’s work towards Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter.