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Effective EDI Training: Good Practice Report

EDICa’s guide draws on insights gained from EDICa’s Equity Champions research, where a cohort undertook 8 training courses across 2 years and reflected on them through diaries.

Published : 30/08/2026

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“This good practice guide draws on insights gained from the UKRI and British Academy funded EDI Caucus. Diary studies were undertaken with a network of Equity Champions based in a range of UK research and innovation organisations. In total, eight EDI training sessions were delivered over a two-year period and data gathered from Equity Champions were analysed to produce this guide. Two additional co-design sessions also offered Equity Champions the opportunity to further and refine this report.

“This report, drawn from the experiences of participants, outlines principles which underpin successful EDI training.

“This report is not a toolkit. It neither prescribes content nor suggests definitive recommendations applicable in all circumstances. However, for those involved in commissioning, designing or delivering EDI training, it offers recommendations on training content and format from the viewpoint of participants. It is organised into five themes. The themes move from overarching questions and principles regarding the purpose of the training (Is it for compliance or to change behaviours?) to more practical considerations, like training content (How can training for specific roles be informed by EDI principles?), training audience (How can EDI training be meaningful for all?), training format (What training has most impact?) and costs.”

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EDICa has a library of resources of equality, diversity & inclusion practices in research & innovation.

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Good Practice Guide on the Research Funding Process

Date: 25th June 2026 –

EDICa’s recommendations for good practice in the research process on reaching & supporting a diverse range of applicants; peer review; and feedback.

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Comic- Peer Review Panels

Date: 25th May 2026 –

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Interventions Seminar – Recording

Date: 22nd May 2024

In May EDICa hosted a panel of funder representatives and researchers to discuss alternative methods of assessing funding applications. Access the recording here.

Dr Anjali Mazumder

AI and Justice and Human Rights Theme Lead

The Turing Institute

Anjali Mazumder is the Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights. Her work focuses on empowering government and non-profit organisations by co-designing and developing responsible and inclusive data and AI methods, tools and frameworks for safeguarding people from harm – particularly those most vulnerable, building resilient institutions and systems, and accelerating the opportunity for inclusive, fair and just services, systems, economies, and communities. She is passionate about fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations and multi-sector partnerships to co-create pathways for innovation that improves services, policy, and actions to safeguard human rights and address humanitarian challenges. Her research interests are in developing integrated Bayesian decision support systems to manage uncertainty with complex data structures, value of evidence, causal reasoning in the wild; expert judgement; detecting bias and algorithmic fairness; socio-technical solutions to harnessing multiple disparate sources of data whilst enabling responsible and inclusive data and AI principles and practices; communicating uncertainty and risk; and safeguarding rights and the Rule of Law.

She has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental statistical problems of societal importance – human rights, justice, security, the Law, education, public health & safety – working at the interface of research, policy and practice in the UK, the US, and Canada, fostering multi-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations. She was appointed to Canada’s National DNA Databank Advisory Committee (2012-2018) and currently serves on the UK Forensic Science Regulator’s fingerprint interpretation subgroup, and the senior management board of the UK’s Policy and Evidence Centre for Modern Slavery and Human Rights. She has also served the Royal Statistical Society in a variety of ways, most recently appointed to the Statistics & Law Section and the Data Science Section committees. She holds a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Oxford and two masters’ degrees in Measurement and Evaluation, and Statistics from the University of Toronto.

Dr Jenny Douglas

Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies

Dr Jenny Douglas is passionate about the health and wellbeing of black women as evidenced through her research and public engagement. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies and completed her doctoral thesis on cigarette smoking and identity among African-Caribbean young women in contemporary British society. This research brought together two divergent research traditions: medical public health and health promotion approaches with sociological approaches to researching cigarette smoking. This interdisciplinary research approach brings together sociology, public health and women’s studies. Her commitment to comparative approaches finds expression not only in working across disciplinary and national boundaries, but also across theoretical and methodological traditions. Her research is both varied and wide ranging spanning 30 years on issues of race, health, gender and ethnicity. The key theme unifying her research and activism is intersectionality – exploring how ‘race’, class and gender affect particular aspects of African – Caribbean women’s health.

Jenny Douglas established and chairs the Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network. (www.open.ac.uk/black-womens-health-and-wellbeing) and her ambition is to establish a research institute on the health and wellbeing of black women. She is a contributing author to ‘Inside the Ivory Tower’.

Jenny Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of York, an MA in Sociological Research in Health Care from the University of Warwick, an MSc in Environmental Pollution Control from the University of Leeds and a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Warwick. She is module lead of the K311 – ‘Promoting Public Health’, is an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health and is a director of the UK Public Health Register.

Jenny is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychology at The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.