Our staff networks

Open to staff of any age, the group champions age diversity. The Group aims to promote the University as a great place to work for all ages.

The group raises awareness of race and cultural issues and is a forum to raise the profile of black and ethnic minority cultures on campus.

The Staff Inclusivity Group is committed to achieving equality for all those who work across both campuses. We aim to ensure that the University demonstrates a fair and supportive environment which provides equality of opportunity and freedom from unlawful discrimination on the grounds of disability, including mental health difficulties and neurodivergent differences.

We are proud to support our diverse community and wish to encourage and celebrate its full contribution to a University life where all colleagues are treated equally and with respect.

An informal support network for people who currently work flexibly or on a part time basis, or who would like to do so in the future.

The LGBT+ Staff Network encompasses staff that identify as LGBT+ and those who are allies. The Network has monthly meetings where staff highlight LGBT+-related issues, organise events and campaigns for awareness and celebration, and offer a space to ensure that LGBT+ staff are represented, supported, valued and have a structure through which they can instigate change. Our current priorities are to: work with colleagues to facilitate a systemic and structured audit of LU structures, processes and experience of LGBT+ staff (Stonewall Workplace Equality Index); implement recommendations from the audit; and create and publicised proactive policies for trans and non-binary staff.

Maia is the Loughborough University Women’s Network. Maia unites women staff and Doctoral Researchers, including trans women and non-binary people comfortable in a female-centred community, across Schools, Professional Services and Loughborough Students’ Union. Maia seeks to make change happen across the University by providing an inclusive community and networking opportunities, creating meaningful, events and initiatives, and delivering and advocating for change to progress gender equity at Loughborough.

The network supports the development of a fair and supportive environment that provides equality of opportunity and freedom to international staff.

For all staff who have, or who have had, parental or caring responsibilities, this network provides a forum for support, sharing experiences and raising issues relevant to working families. We are an informal group which aims to offer a community for working parents and carers, and which also seeks to influence university policies and practices which impact on our members.

Open to those staff, and their family members, who have served in the Armed Forces. The University is a signatory to the Armed forces Covenant and has pledged to treat with fairness and respect those who serve or who have served in the Armed Forces, and their families. Our Armed Forces Network provides a forum and support group for staff and students who are Military Reservists, Veterans and their family members. The University promotes itself as an armed forces institution with HR policies that support the recruitment of veterans and their families. Our contribution was recognised with a Silver award in the 2021 Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.