NUT Equality project: Fairer Futures: Putting Equal Opportunities at the Heart of NUT Local Structures
WLRI Researcher
Fiona Colgan is the independent research evaluator working on this project. The project is being run by the NUT.
Timescale
1 May 2008 to 1 May 2010
Funding
BERR Union Modernisation Fund
Project Summary
The NUT has sought this funding to generate greater involvement and participation of members in the NUT’s local structures by encouraging members to become active equal opportunities officers. The NUT project aims to develop tools to enable new and existing equal opportunities officers to develop local strategies to engage all members in promoting equal opportunities including those who are under-represented in activity at local association level such as black and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, disabled and women members. The project involves training equal opportunities officers in order to develop strategies about how regions and associations can: attract members to ‘take up’ the role: inspire members to ‘actively’ carry out the role; and increase the confidence, profile and impact of equal opportunities officers within associations.
