Equal opportunities at the NJ Faculty

Gender equality and equal opportunities is to be achieved by gender mainstreaming and in accordance with the Discrimination Act's requirements for preventive active measures. This applies to the faculty as well as SLU as a whole.

All students and staff should have the same rights and obligations regardless of the seven grounds of discrimination in the Discrimination Act:

• sex
• transgender identity or expression
• ethnicity  
• religion or other belief
• disability
• sexual orientation
• age

What can you do in the events of harassments?

The vice-chancellor is ultimately responsible for making sure that the university complies with the Discrimination Act. All managers and supervisors are obligated to make sure that any cases of harassment are investigated and acted upon. It is the responsibility of all staff to maintain a working environment free of any form of discrimination.

Here you can find more information that describes:

• What constitutes discrimination and harassment?
• How you as an employee can report harassment, sexual harassment and reprisals
• Reporting harassment – for students
• If you have seen anybody else being victimised

Are you a manager and in need of support?

All faculties have an equal opportunities administrative officer employed. The equal opportunities officer is to provide support to managers regarding both strategic and operational measures in order to achieve gender equality and equal opportunities.

Contact information for the NJ faculty's Equal Opportunities Officer can be found at the bottom of this page.

Every department have a collaboration group. The collaboration group conducts systematic work environment management based both on the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Discrimination Act. SLU has a course for collaboration groups. The purpose with this training is to demonstrate practical ways of combining both work environment and equal opportunity efforts that facilitate them both. The course is aimed at groups that have begun systematic work environment management and can be given both in Swedish and in English. The course is 3 hours and can be held online or physically on site. If you want to book a course for your collaboration group contact your local HR specialist.

SLU's general web pages and documents regarding gender equality and equal opportunities

Active measures is the concept for the systematic and preventive work that the Discrimination Act requires. Departments can coordinate the active measures work with their systematic work environment work.

Gender mainstreaming is a strategy for achieving Sweden's gender equality policy goals and means that gender equality must be taken into account in all processes and decisions. The government has assigned SLU and all other Swedish higher education institutions a mission to work for increased gender equality through gender mainstreaming.

Here are links to web pages and documents that describe:

• active measures at SLU
• gender mainstreaming at SLU
• governing document on equal opportunities that applies to all of SLU
• SLU's organisation for working with gender equality and equal opportunities (pdf, in Swedish).

NJ Faculty’s Committee for equal opportunities

The Committee for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities is the faculty’s information and planning forum for systematic work with gender equality and equal opportunities. Under contact information below you find a list of the NJ Faculty’s equal opportunities committee members (link to decision).

Each department has a contact person for matters related to gender equality and equal opportunities. They can forward any questions to the committee. Ask your head of department for the name of the contact person at your department.

Are you a student that would like to raise an issue with the gender equality and equal opportunities committee? If the answer is yes, contact your student union or the PhD Student Council.

Other documents

• Action plan for gender equality and equal opportunities at the NJ Faculty 2021/2022
• Information about the guidelines for harassment of students during external visits
• Short guide on equal opportunities for new students (up-coming)
• Letter of intent for an attractive, equal and inclusive work and study environment in the green sector