As part of our campaign to make equal pay an issue in advance of next year's 50th anniversary of the passage of the Equal Pay Act, we are working with a number of universities to run equal pay seminars.

While the main focus is on unlawful, unequal gender pay, there are a number of other issues that are being covered, this includes campus-based campaigns for the Real Living Wage and issues related to the ethnicity pay gap. While these are being hosted at a number of universities, they are not meant to be purely academic events, but to involve practitioners and are designed to explore what needs to be done to achieve significant progress on equal pay. So far we have secured support from employers and trade unions to explore the issues. 

Conference details

05-Nov-19          Queen Mary University of London see report here

09-Dec-19          Leeds University

27-Feb-20          Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

04-Mar-20          Bedfordshire

08-Apr-20           Liverpool University

01-May-20         Oxford Brookes/Surrey (central London location, looking at the gender pay gap in the healthcare sectors)

05-May-20         Northumbria University

Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester universities have also expressed an interest in hosting an event.

If you would like to know more or are interested in hosting an event, email john.page@equalitytrust.org.uk.