Research, both nationally and at the University of Kent, shows that reading lists that consider the diversity of the student body improve engagement and help to develop key graduate attributes. A minor change to your course materials could make a major change to the way a students, or a group of students, responds to the course.

Use our Diversity Mark toolkit to help get you started on diversifying your reading list. The toolkit includes: 

• resource lists
• best practice at the University of Kent and elsewhere 
• tips for exploring the scholarly landscape.

Diversity Mark is an institution-wide award that is given to those modules that can offer a diverse and inclusive range of resources for their students via their reading lists.

The award is given to individual convenors or schools that undergo a process of review and reflection with their students to ensure that they have considered authors and perspectives from divergent backgrounds such as race, gender, sexuality, disability, internationalisation and socio-economic contexts within their discipline.

This award will be visible in Moodle and will indicate to students enrolled, or considering enrolment to a particular module, that there are diverse resources represented in the reading list.

Criteria to receive this award is providing evidence that:

• the reading list has had diverse and inclusive resources added
• student feedback has informed the process
• there will be a continued practice in developing your teaching and learning resources

If you are interested in achieving this award then contact us and we can guide you through the steps:

• award criteria and application form (pdf)
• contact your liaison librarian 
• or contact the Student Success Network: studentsuccessproject@kent.ac.uk

Find out all the ways you can get in touch: