Sexual Orientation
The University's Equality Policy provides for an inclusive environment which 'promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a working, learning and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all its staff and students are respected to assist them in reaching their full potential'. It also provides that no student or member of staff will be treated less favorable on grounds which include sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
Val McDermid - 2013 LGBT History Month Lecture
The Vice Chancellor welcomed Val McDermid (Best-selling crime writer and alumna of St. Hilda’s College) back to Oxford to give the annual Oxford University Lecture for LGBT History Month. The lecture titled “A Queer-Like Smell”, in reference to her home town of Kirkcaldy and a poem by fellow Fife-er, Mary Campbell Smith, touched upon themes of growing up gay in a world of silence and how finding her voice as a writer was tied inextricably to finding her gay self.
Listen to a podcast of the lecture here: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/queer-smell-audio
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