STA Student Handbook (Taught Programmes) 2025/26
2025-26 Handbook for STA Undergraduate Students
This is where you will find all the information, rules, and explanations you need during your time as a student in STA.
You are expected to know the information in this booklet-- it is your responsibility to read it and refer to it as necessary.
Equality, diversity and inclusion in STA
The School of the Arts at QMUL strives to be an inclusive work environment, a community committed to ensuring equality of rights, recognition and responsibilities for all, irrespective of ability/disability, sexual orientation, racial background, social background, age, sex, gender, marital status, maternity status and religion or belief and challenging ableism, homophobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and discrimination based on religion, class or age.
To foster inclusivity STA will:
- Call out discrimination of all kinds wherever and whenever we see it
- Listen to one another, support and hold up one another
- Express our commitment to social justice publicly and openly
- Recognise and name barriers to access when we experience and witness them
- Recognise that we do not all experience this space equally
- Work on making this space one which is sustaining for all
The STA EDI Committee will:
- Treat each other with respect, value the input of everyone irrespective of grade, role or experience; ensure no one dominates.
- Advise the School on all areas of equality, diversity and inclusion work in relation to staff and students.
- Provide forums for staff and students to be safe in their discussion of discrimination that has been experienced and witnessed
- Engage students and staff with maintaining and developing a culture that supports a good work life balance.
- Share and disseminate good practices relating to progressing equality and diversity across the School.
- Monitor and review training and mentoring practices across the School.
- Review current and future School equality charter awards, to prepare and submit applications for renewal as required.
- Seek to raise the level of awareness and engagement of staff and students in equalities matters and encourage their active participation in the principles of the Equality Act and its implementation.
- Work with the Faculty and wider University structures to support members of our School in ways that are inclusive and enabling.
- Start and end on time; come prepared and contribute; respect confidentiality—when sensitive matters are shared, they should stay in the room.
