What is an Equality Impact Assessment?

Equality impact assessment (EIA) is a process to ensure that any adverse or negative impact on equality is identified and addressed when making strategic decisions, operational decisions, and writing and implementing policies​.

Why do we need to do them?

EIAs help the University to understand how policies, strategies and decisions operate in practice and can provide information that can minimise the risk of discrimination, and be used to tailor functions and services to meet the needs of our diverse student and staff community.

The University has a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to undertake EIAs, with a focus on ensuring that policies, strategies and decisions do not unlawfully discriminate, they advance equality of opportunity​, and ​consider if they affect good relations between different groups.

What are the tools needed to do an Equality Impact Assessment?

We have updated our Equality Impact Assessment process. The updated form is more straightforward with guidance material and a short presentation which should provide all the information you need to get started.

These materials are available as 'read only' you will need to save your own copy to complete the form. Once you've completed the Equality Impact Assessment it should be saved and logged in the EIA Log.​

To access further resources and support on EIAs, you can ​request to join the Edinburgh Napier Inclusive Police Design Teams group​.

For more information

The following external sources provide further information and guidance on EIAs:

Advance HE - Equality Impact Assessment Equality

Human Rights Commission - Making Fair Financial Decisions​​

​External video: What is an Equality Impact Assessment?​

​Please contact Sandrine Flower​ if you have any question.​​​