ALN EDI Ideas Bazaar (hosted online by ALN EDI Action Group)

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Event Start March 17, 2026 11:00 am	Event End March 17, 2026 12:00 pm	Booking closes March 13, 2026 5:00 pm
Location Online via Teams

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Do you have an idea for an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) project and are considering submitting a bid for the ALN EDI Innovation Fund? Come along to our EDI Ideas Bazaar to discuss it in an informal setting and see if there is another institution you can pair up with. In 2025, 2 projects found their collaborative partners at our Ideas Bazaar so it’s well worth it!

The 2026 ALN EDI Innovation Fund will be opening soon. The fund aims to provide small grants to ALN institutions (up to a max of £1000), to support a project, event or activity which will improve, enhance or develop approaches to EDI at your home institution and can then be shared with ALN colleagues. Bids should ideally be submitted in collaboration with another ALN member or ALN group, to help support the collaborative ethos of ALN. We do accept bids from a single institution if you have valid justifications or evidence attesting to its relevance to the ALN EDI purpose. Bids can be related to any topic connected to EDI.

To give you some inspiration, here are the successful projects for 2025 – come along to our event on 5 March to hear all about them:

Calm Spaces. Aim: To evaluate and develop calm spaces at the University of Huddersfield and Sheffield Hallam University. It is hoped that the results of the project will have a positive impact on student wellbeing. (Huddersfield and Sheffield Hallam)

Inclusive Academic Reading Project. Aim: To investigate the habits, preferences, and motives of undergraduate and postgraduate students regarding university reading lists and academic reading preferences; and to develop an evidence base to enhance retention, progression, and completion rates, with a particular focus on students from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. (Manchester Met and Sheffield Hallam)

Accessible Library Induction Guides. Aim: To investigate offering basic library services guides in different formats: print, large print, audio, video, and online to make library guidance more accessible to students. The project teams will work with students in the creation of the guides and students will review the content of library induction sessions and create a list of “library essential facts”. (Chester)

Reducing barriers and supporting people seeking sanctuary in realising their academic potential. Aim: To evaluate, expand and evolve the University of Hull’s Sanctuary Associate Membership scheme, utilising UX research methods, for example, customer journey mapping, card sorting, creating user personas and user benchmarking to evaluate the use of our current provision and identify user challenges. (Hull)

Outputs from the projects will be shared as soon as they are available.

More information on ALN’s EDI work can be found on the EDI webpage.

ALN EDI Ideas Bazaar (hosted online by ALN EDI Action Group)

This session will run on Teams. Your booking will be confirmed via Ticket Tailor. ALN/the hosts will send joining instructions the day before the event, at the latest, via email/calendar appointment – please check your inbox nearer to the event.

This session will run on Teams. Your booking will be confirmed via Ticket Tailor.
ALN/the hosts will send joining instructions the day before the event, at the latest, via email/calendar appointment – please check your inbox nearer to the event.