Our Commitment to LGBT+ Equality

Swansea University is fully committed to LGBT+ equality.

We actively seek to improve and measure our successes within LGBT+ equality, to ensure that staff and students feel accepted and safe at work and study.

We are proud members of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI), which provides us with a definitive benchmarking tool to measure our progress on lesbian, gay, bi and trans inclusion in the workplace.

The WEI focusses on 8 areas of employment policy and practice, including networking groups, career development, training and community engagement.

In 2023 Swansea University has increased its ranking from 26^th to 12^th, which is our highest ranking to date in the league table of UK employers. We are delighted that we have also increased our rankings in participating Education Sector entrants from 5^th to 1^st. We have retained the Gold standard award, which recognises that we have embedded LGBT+ equality into our core areas of work at the highest level. Our LGBT+Staff Network has also been recognised and has achieved Stonewall’s Highly Commended Network Group Award.

What is LGBT+?

LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgender:

Lesbian: a woman who is attracted to other women
Gay: a man who is attracted to other men
Bi: an individual attracted to people regardless of their gender
Trans: someone whose gender is different to the sex they were assigned at birth.

The plus (+) relates to other sexual and gender identities, including (but not limited to) pansexual, asexual, intersex, questioning, queer, genderqueer, polysexual.

Our LGBT+ achievements and recognition

We have achieved some great awards since we joined the WEI, and we are proud to have been ranked:

Get Involved!

Please email the University's LGBT+ Staff Network, if you would like to become a member of the network.

If you would like to become a member of the Allies Programme please contact lgbtallies@swansea.ac.uk.