Equality and Diversity
The ICR is one of the world’s most influential cancer research institutes and our mission is to make the discoveries that defeat cancer. We recruit the best people from the international market resulting in a diverse workforce. We also ensure that we create a non-limiting and fully inclusive environment for staff and students to achieve their organisational and personal goals.
Progress on equality issues
Our Equal Opportunities Policy Statement provides a foundation for a range of initiatives directed towards supporting the work of the ICR.
Our 2011 Equality Report outlines in detail the steps we are taking to promote equality, and eliminate any discriminatory practice within the ICR.
Our progress on equality issues reflects our pursuit of excellence in all our other work which means going beyond minimum expectations in a range of initiatives. This includes:
- Charter membership of the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science. The ICR has committed to progress from our current Bronze Award to the Silver Award for this by 2016
- Support and adjustments for disabled students and staff
- Trained network of independent harassment advisers.
Within the ICR, these activities are taken forward through our Equality Excellence programme which combines our equality initiatives and highlights how they support the scientific work of the ICR.
Further information
Please email our diversity and disability advisor with any queries or download the below PDF documents for further details on our policies and schemes.
Download our Equality Report 2011 (pdf) 351KB
Download our Equal Opportunity Policy (pdf) 20KB
Download our Visitor Equality Information (pdf) 35KB
Alternatively documents are downloadable as rich text files:
Download our Equality Report 2011 (rtf) 3198KB
