Welcome to EDI Week 2025!
The school EDI committee and the student society AgSoc present a week of fun activities related to equality, diversity and inclusion.
We want to raise awareness among staff and students of the key issues in EDI today.
There are ample opportunities to improve your knowledge, test your learning in a quiz and get to know your colleagues.
We have come up an exciting schedule of events to raise awareness of EDI across the School and College and hope that you will get involved and come along throughout the week to celebrate EDI Week 2025.
All week we have also booked out the Computer lab G-30PC to encourage staff and students to complete some of UCD's fantastic EDI eLearning courses and programmes.
The slots available throughout the week are:
Monday: 11-2.50pm; Tuesday 11-1.50 and 2-3.50pm; Wednesday 9-10.50am, Thursday 9-10.50am and 3-4.50pm; Friday 12-1.50pm
There are a number of fantastic courses that you can complete in just 30 minutes and the EDI in HE e-Learning programme for example, consists of four modules, each of 30-45 minutes duration, which can be completed either as an entire programme, or as a series of modules allowing participants to build up their knowledge over time at their own pace.
You can find more information and the full EDI eLearning programmes here and complete all the courses on either Brightspace or on (opens in a new window)LearnUpon
Schedule of Events
Monday: International Diversity Day
- Flying the Flag - a cultural experience. AFSC lobby, 11am.
- Staff EDI eTraining, Computer lab G-30PC, 11am.
- Postdoc Coffee Morning. All Postdocs across the College of Health and Agricultural Science welcome! Ag Common Room, 12pm.
- Dignity & Respect Training for students in Agri-Environmental Sciences, Forestry, and Horticulture programmes. 1pm
Tuesday: Gender Equality Day
- Post Graduate Student and Staff Coffee Morning - All Post Graduates and Staff welcome. Ag Common room, 11am
- Staff EDI eTraining, Computer lab G-30PC, 11am.
Wednesday: Dignity and Respect Day
- Staff EDI eTraining, Computer lab G-30PC, 9am.
- Presentation of DAFM Award, Student Centre, 10am
Thursday: Neurodiversity Day
- Dignity & Respect Training for students in Animal Science, Agricultural Systems Technology and Food Science programmes, 9am
- Staff EDI eTraining, Computer lab G-30PC, 9am.
- Dignity & Respect Training for students in Food Science
- Neurodiversity lunchtime talk, Dr. Blanaid Gavin who is the lead on the recent UCD Neurodiversity Report. She is joined by UCD student Alexa MacDermot from the UCD Student Neurodiversity Collective and Gregori Meakin from the Staff Neurodiversity Network, plus other contributors. Venue G-15 1-2pm
- Staff EDI eTraining, Computer lab G-30PC, 3pm
Friday: Sense of Belonging
- Tea, Coffee & Cake - Ag Common Room, 11am
- Staff EDI eTraining, Computer lab G-30PC, 12pm