FOI_25-114 Black nursing and midwifery academics
Date of response: 12 May 2025
We have now considered your request of 14 April 2025 for the following information:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. My request relates to the representation of Black nursing and midwifery academics within your institution, specifically those with significant responsibility for research.
Question 1. The total number of nursing and midwifery academics employed by your university.
Our response:
66.
Question 2. The number of Black nursing academics employed by your university.
Our response:
<5.
Question 3. The number of Black midwifery academics employed by your university.
Our response:
Zero.
Question 4. The number of nursing and midwifery academics with significant responsibility for research.
Our response:
<5.
Question 5. The number of Black nursing academics with significant responsibility for research.
Our response:
Zero.
Question 6. The number of Black midwifery academics with significant responsibility for research.
Following REF guidance, we have defined significant responsibility for research as staff for whom explicit time and resources are made available to engage actively in independent research and that is an expectation of their job role.
We have also defined a Black nursing and midwifery academic as any staff with an academic contract who is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Our response:
<5.
Values marked fewer than five <5: Section 40 (2) exemption explanation:
On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Act contains several exemptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exemption to part of your request.
| Exemption | Reason |
|---|---|
| S.40(2), Personal information | Disclosure of some of the requested information would be contrary to the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation |
We can confirm that the University does hold this data and we believe that the requested information, constitutes the personal data of individuals, as defined by Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, due to the small numbers involved, we consider these details are exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the FOI Act.
We believe that disclosure this data would be contrary to the requirements of Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR; namely that information must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. These individuals would have no expectation that this information would be made publicly available, and we have not identified a lawful basis that would allow or require us to disclose this information. To ensure that we do not inadvertently release personal data in this response or in combination with other publicly available data, we have replaced all values between 1 and 4 in relation to the number of individuals with the value ‘<5’.