FOI_25-255 Socio economic data for students and staff

Date of response: 17 September 2025

We have now considered your request of 28 August 2025 for the following information:

The following information is requested. Do you collect data from staff and/or students on any of the following topics:

1. Occupation of a person’s parent/guardian/carer when they were a child.

2. Type of secondary school a person attended (e.g., state, grammar, private)

3. The highest qualification of a person’s parent/guardian/carer (e.g., O Levels, BSc,/BA)

4. Whether a person was eligible for free school meals at any point during their school years

5. Gender identity, and if it is the same as sex registered/sex assigned at birth.

6. Age

7. Disability

8. Gender reassignment

9. Marriage and civil partnership

10. Pregnancy and maternity

11. Race

12. Religion or belief

13. Sex

14. Sexual orientation

Please include data collected for all types of students (undergraduate and postgraduate) on any course, all academic staff (research assistants, research fellows, lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, and professors), and all professional services staff. It is not necessary to provide us with the data itself, as we are only interested in whether or not you collect the data.

We would like the above information to be provided electronically using the attached Excel spreadsheet.

In addition, if they exist, please signpost and/or send us the strategies/policies that your institution has on supporting social mobility or protecting staff and students against discrimination based on their social class or socio-economic background.

Our response:

As requested, please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_25-255 Appendix A.

On this occasion it is not possible to provide any of the requested information. In line with your rights under section 1(1)(a) of the Act to be informed whether information is held, we confirm that the University does not hold any recorded information for strategies and policies which support social mobility and protect staff and students against discrimination based on their social class or socio-economic backgrounds. The University does not have a policy or strategy specifically for this; however, we do have an Inclusive Education policy, and a Dignity and Respect in the Workplace policy which cover broader discrimination.