Please take a moment to read through the policies below as they contain important information.
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You may wish to bookmark some of these to refer to them again later.
Please note that this is preliminary information for you to read ahead of starting; you will be prompted about mandatory training later.
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Equality & diversity
The department is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace.
Please also complete the Implicit bias in the workplace course and submit your certificate to odid-hr@qeh.ox.ac.uk.
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Bullying & harassment
The University expects all members of its community and all visitors and contractors to treat each other with respect, courtesy and consideration. The department takes this very seriously and Bulling and Harassment advisors will be highlighted to new starters during induction.
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Health & safety
The University has a duty to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of their employees at work.
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Academic integrity
The University expects all its members to observe the highest standards of ethics and integrity in the conduct of their research.
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IT Security
Everybody has a responsibility to make sure the information they access doesn't get hacked, infected, abused or destroyed.
All staff must also complete the University's Data security training.
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Conflict of interest
All University staff must recognise and disclose activities that might give rise to conflicts of interest, or the perception of conflicts, and ensure thery are seen to be properly managed or avoided.
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Codes of practice
A collection of some of the key University codes of practice and policies with which you may wish to familiarise yourself.