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EDI STRATEGY 2024-26
OUR COMMITTMENT
Our EDI strategy focuses on
four key objectives:
 Integrating and embedding EDI
into all aspects of RVC life.
 Attracting, retaining and
supporting diversity.
 Actively working to dismantle
structural barriers.
 Creating a culture of inclusivity that
engenders belonging.
The RVC is dedicated to being an
organisation in which equity, diversity
and inclusion underpin all that we do.
In pursuing our mission to educate,
undertake research and provide clinical
care, we remain committed to creating
an inclusive, diverse, and welcoming
community, where our students and staff
work together to ensure professionalism,
mutual respect and collegiality are at the
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OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND
ASSOCIATED PRIORITIES
core of all activities.
to challenge and to actively include EDI
Our EDI strategy is for our entire perspectives in their routine activities.
community. It aims to be proactive, A fully comprehensive
IV. Widen our commitment to EDI to
accessible, and implementable across approach will require that,
include our relationships with external
our organisation – in our teaching, our through policy and practice, we partners, contractors, and suppliers.
research and clinical missions, our entrench EDI as a constant in V. Raise the profi le of EDI work by
student and staff experiences and in our all our activities.
incorporating it into the institutional Integrate and embed EDI
interactions with clients, stakeholders and
We will ecognition and reward processes.
partners - locally and globally.
VI. Ensure we use reliable data as our into all aspects of RVC
evidence base to inform
I. Develop approaches to our processes anddrive our EDI work, impact life, for our students, staff,
and systems that allow for the consideration
assessments and annual reporting.
of EDI in all decision-making. partners, clients, and all
II. Ensure that all members of the RVC
governance and senior leadership are stakeholders.
fully equipped to lead on EDI by including
specifi c training on how to recognise and
address issues of equity, diversity, and
inclusion.
III. Provide regular EDI training and
education to the RVC community such
that they have the confi dence to support,