The Department of Social Policy seeks to provide a safe and productive meeting environment that fosters the exchange of ideas and promotes academic freedom and equal opportunities and treatment for all participants.
The Department of Social Policy will not tolerate discrimination or harassment at any of its events including seminars, workshops, conferences and public lectures, and any related meetings with speakers or social activities, such as dinners and receptions.
All participants of events organised by the Department of Social Policy are required to abide by the following LSE policies:
We expect cooperation from all participants. Participants violating this code of conduct may be removed or banned from Department of Social Policy events at the discretion of the organisers.
Anyone who experiences or observes discrimination or harassment should report this behaviour to the Department of Social Policy staff member supporting the event, or to Damian Roberts, Department Manager, Department of Social Policy (d.p.roberts@lse.ac.uk)
Any individual (LSE and non-LSE based) can access LSE's "Report It, Stop It" service to report sexual violence, bullying or harassment.
Reports of discrimination or harassment will be maintained in confidence to the extent that doing so does not compromise the Department of Social Policy’s ability to investigate the reported conduct.
Discrimination is defined under The Equality Act 2010 and takes place when an individual or a group of people are treated less favourably than others based on a protected characteristic such as age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity (including treating a woman unfavourably because she is breastfeeding), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation and in relation to direct discrimination only, marriage and civil partnership. Harassment is defined as a course of unwanted conduct which can cause an individual alarm or distress and may put people in fear of violence.
Photography at events
Photographs taken on behalf of the Department of Social Policy are often used on our social media accounts, website and publications. At events, photographs could include broad shots of the audience and lecture theatre, of speakers during the talk, of audience members as they participate in the Q&A, and of attendees at our events.
If you are participating in an event but would not like any photographs which may be taken of you to be stored for future use, please contact soc.pol.webteam@lse.ac.uk.
Please note that with mobile phones in such common use, and given the popularity of social media, events can never be considered ‘off the record’ as there is a likelihood they will be recorded in some way by the audience and end up in the public domain.
25th April 2023