EDI and accessibility
EDI and accessibility
Introduction
EDI and accessibility: Support to Applicants and Fellows
The Churchill Fellowship is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We promote these values through our Fellowships, which embrace all groups and issues in society. This page outlines the support we provide to ensure that as wide a range of people as possible can access our funding.
Applying for a Fellowship
We are closed for Fellowship applications and re-open in September 2024.
We know that some people may need additional support to participate in our application process.
If you have already submitted an application and you are shortlisted for interview there will be an opportunity to let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments so that we can discuss with you how best we can meet these. We can provide additional support with accessing an in-person interview or offer an online interview as an alternative.
How your application will be assessed
All applications are anonymised before they are assessed. This means that our assessors do not see any details of the applicant’s name, age, gender or other defining characteristics that might create a risk of unconscious bias.
As best we can, we select members for our interview panels from diverse backgrounds and with a broad range of professional and lived experience. Our panels include experts in the relevant programme area and often include Churchill Fellows.
In making our Fellowship awards, we prioritise people who would be less likely to receive funding from other sources and who have lived experience of the issues that they want to explore.
Carrying out a Fellowship
If you are successful in your application to become a Fellow, we can provide additional support to enable you to carry out your overseas learning. Support may include, but is not limited to, paying for the cost of a personal assistant to travel with you, or paying for communication support needs, such as a British Sign Language (BSL) translator, when interviewing people as part of your learning.
We have also introduced a hybrid option and an online option for carrying out overseas learning which involve less or no travel overseas.
We strive to achieve the highest standards in equity, diversity and inclusion in our application processes and support that we offer to applicants and Fellows. This is a continuous journey, and we welcome feedback on how we can improve. If there is something else we can do to make the information we share or our application processes more accessible, please email us at applications@churchillfellowship.org
EDI and accessibility: Support to Applicants and Fellows
The Churchill Fellowship is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We promote these values through our Fellowships, which embrace all groups and issues in society. This page outlines the support we provide to ensure that as wide a range of people as possible can access our funding.
Applying for a Fellowship
We are closed for Fellowship applications and re-open in September 2024.
We know that some people may need additional support to participate in our application process.
If you have already submitted an application and you are shortlisted for interview there will be an opportunity to let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments so that we can discuss with you how best we can meet these. We can provide additional support with accessing an in-person interview or offer an online interview as an alternative.
How your application will be assessed
All applications are anonymised before they are assessed. This means that our assessors do not see any details of the applicant’s name, age, gender or other defining characteristics that might create a risk of unconscious bias.
As best we can, we select members for our interview panels from diverse backgrounds and with a broad range of professional and lived experience. Our panels include experts in the relevant programme area and often include Churchill Fellows.
In making our Fellowship awards, we prioritise people who would be less likely to receive funding from other sources and who have lived experience of the issues that they want to explore.
Carrying out a Fellowship
If you are successful in your application to become a Fellow, we can provide additional support to enable you to carry out your overseas learning. Support may include, but is not limited to, paying for the cost of a personal assistant to travel with you, or paying for communication support needs, such as a British Sign Language (BSL) translator, when interviewing people as part of your learning.
We have also introduced a hybrid option and an online option for carrying out overseas learning which involve less or no travel overseas.
We strive to achieve the highest standards in equity, diversity and inclusion in our application processes and support that we offer to applicants and Fellows. This is a continuous journey, and we welcome feedback on how we can improve. If there is something else we can do to make the information we share or our application processes more accessible, please email us at applications@churchillfellowship.org