Goal 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Reduced inequalities within and among nations

Research

Lancaster University researchers have helped to evaluate an indoor air quality campaign to improve the health of children living in social housing. The campaign is in collaboration with one of North West England’s leading housing providers, Torus with the aim of creating an innovative pilot that focused on the respiratory impact of indoor air quality while empowering social tenants in their homes.

Educational inequalities

Lancaster University researchers have contributed to a major report which highlights how a failure to address childhood inequality is creating a ‘conveyor belt of disadvantage.’ The Child of the North report highlights groundbreaking projects in the North of England that showcase the power of working collaboratively and resource sharing to achieve transformational changes on pupils’ educational achievement and lives.

Teaching

Social Work

Reducing inequalities is a theme that is embedded into many Lancaster degrees. For example, our Social Work degree has a module on Contemporary Social Problems that looks at how contemporary social problems reflect and reproduce economic and social inequalities and how those inequalities are constructed through different welfare ideologies and approaches.

Campus life

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Lancaster University’s commitment to create an environment where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential is demonstrated by initiatives linked with recognising and supporting protected characteristics including age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and sex and sexual orientation in alignment with the Equality Act 2010. There are several EDI–related networks and associations at Lancaster University for staff and students to connect, share best practice and network.

Lancaster Success Programme (LSP)

The University offers a programme of activities to enable students from widening participation backgrounds to thrive during their studies and successfully progress into graduate employment or postgraduate study. The LSP is designed to support students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented at university, who may not always be aware of the breadth of support and opportunities available to them.

Mentoring

As part of the University’s work towards the Race Equality Charter, senior staff have partnered with students from racially minoritised backgrounds as part of a reciprocal mentoring programme, sharing insights, perspectives and understanding to help to highlight and tackle inequalities.