Gender equality in both the workforce and education is crucial for ensuring future success. This year 48% of our MBA cohort are women but our work continues to increase female representation across all of our programmes and within our faculty. And for those women who come through our doors we are committed to delivering inclusive programming and careers content to develop them on their leadership journey.
Diversity and inclusion
Listen, learn and lead
As a School, we focus on tackling systemic challenges. The challenges of structural racism and discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, disability and other factors are persistent elements of our society.
Advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda will require us to closely examine our policies, our culture, our classrooms - and ourselves.
Our strategy on racism will build on the work of our Anti-Racism Taskforce and the three-step approach endorsed by our 2019-2020 MBA class: Listen, Learn, and Lead.
We will work together to make Oxford Saïd a place in which everyone feels included and welcome.
Oxford Saïd strives to be the business school of choice for all. Diversity and inclusion are central to our culture, our decision making and our working relationships.
Women at Oxford Saïd
Tackling racism
Listen, Learn, Lead – a film by our MBA students
This film is a series of conversations organised by members of the 2020 MBA cohort. It was their response as a class to the displays of anti-black racism that captured the attention of the international community in May of 2020.
'Our conversations and actions against racism were far from perfect, but they were a helpful starting point for our class, and hopefully the wider School community. The goal was to encourage everyone affiliated with the School to step into those uncomfortable spaces, to hold each other and our school accountable, even when it feels like change is slow to come.
We hope this video continues to serve as a reminder to speak up, share your thoughts and feelings on systemic issues like racism. You will not only hold those around you accountable, but you will find friends and allies you did not know you had, and in doing so, build a stronger, safer community for everyone.'
Black History Month
We are proud to support Black History Month, helping reclaim forgotten history and confronting injustice here and now. The theme for 2022 was 'Time for change: Action not words'.
To mark the occasion we unveiled plans to launch our new Oxford Black Leaders Scholarships.
Documentary - In the cold dark night
This recent film from Emmy-nominated director and producer Stephen Robert Morse (MBA 2015, Saïd Business School) tells the story of a quest for justice for a murder victim and his family. Set in Griffin, Georgia, In the Cold Dark Night explores the racially motivated 1983 murder of Timothy Coggins which remained unsolved for 35 years until a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent discovered a file that revealed lost evidence and secrets about the murder.
Disability inclusion
Every year at Oxford Saïd we mark PurpleLightUp to celebrate the economic contributions of persons with disabilities.
We have worked hard to ensure our spaces and website are accessible and continue to make improvements all the time.
Wellbeing
In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the importance of supporting wellbeing and mental health. The devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of some populations has only increased the prominence of this issue.
Hear from our students, and gain insights from our work during Mental Health Awareness Month.
Men at Oxford Saïd
19 November is #InternationalMensDay, celebrating the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities. As a School community we highlight positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being.
Each year members of the school community take part in Movember. This is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches and/or beards during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues and suicide (core themes for International Men’s Day).
Pride@SBS
Our Pride@SBS group encourages current students, alumni, staff and faculty to join together to share ideas, raise awareness and build understanding of the LGBTQI+ community here at Saïd Business School.
