Training Dates 2024

Unconscious Bias Training

This training provides staff with a greater awareness of unconscious bias, the research and understanding of the impact of unconscious bias in decision making, recruitment and selection decisions daily interactions, and targeted actions to counteract the impact of unconscious bias.

Target audience: Unconscious Bias training is a requirement for all staff who participate on recruitment panels, promotion assessment panels and members of key decision-making committees.

 Dates & Times:

8th May 2024

10.00-12.30 2024 (online)

21st May 2024 (online)

13.30-16.00

REGISTER HERE

 Active Bystander Training

Active Bystander Training provides the skills to challenge unacceptable behaviours e.g. racism, bullying, sexual harassment, and other inappropriate behaviours, including those which may become normalized over time.

Target audience: All Staff

Date & Time

14^th May 2024 (online)

10.00 – 12.00

22^nd May 2024 (online)

10.00 – 12.00

Disability Awareness Training

This 3-hour online training is designed to support the roll out of the Staff Guide to Disability in the Workplace.

Target group: All staff and in particular, any staff member who has a responsibility for another staff member i.e. line managers and PIs.

Venue: Online

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Gender Diversity Training

This workshop aims to support institutions expand their capacity to support trans and non-binary students and staff. Participants will gain insight into experiences of trans and non-binary communities in Ireland today and build fluency in respectful language and terminology. In an open and safe space participants have the opportunity to ask any questions, explore strategies for becoming confident allies, and offer practical solutions for building more inclusive education for trans and non-binary individuals. 

Target group: All staff

Venue: Online

 REGISTER HERE 

Managers Matter: Leading Modern Families

 This training programme will provide management and leadership advice on:

• How to create a culture that values and supports all staff, inclusive of external responsibilities
• How to support employees with caring responsibilities and manage transitions from leave back to work

Target group: Line-managers and supervisors

Venue: Online, via Zoom

 REGISTER HERE

Maternity Matters: Return to Work

A 3-hour interactive and practical online workshop designed to help prepare and support new parents in adjusting back to the workplace following maternity/ adoptive leave.

Target group: Staff who are due to return/have returned from maternity leave in the last 8 months.

Venue: Online, via Zoom 

Email OVPEDI@universityofgalway.ie to find out more or to register your interest. Registration is also available via Core.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Higher Education

The purpose of this EDI in HE eLearning programme is:

• to raise awareness of how equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights issues permeate organisational culture, and
• to understand what third level education staff responsibilities are under Irish equality and human rights legislation.

Target group: All staff

Available online anytime here

Let’s Talk About Race in Higher Education Institutions

‘Let’s Talk About Race in the Higher Education Sector’ is a 30 minute Race Equality Awareness eLearning module which aims to:

• Develop greater awareness of the nature of racism, and in particular provide an understanding of how racism may take the form of inequality and bias that is embedded in our universities in a systemic way;
• Provide students and staff with the insights to enable the conversation about racism; and
• Calls us to action to take responsibility to reduce racism in our university.

Target group: All staff

Available online anytime here

Online Unconscious Bias Training

This training is designed to give all staff a general understanding of unconscious bias in an easy to access format and provide a refresher for the face-to-face training workshops.

 Target group: All staff  

Available online anytime here