Contact the EDI team

You can get in touch with anyone from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team using the contact details below. 

General inquiries

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 1649
Email: diversity@st-andrews.ac.uk 

British Sign Language (BSL) users can contact the team through the online BSL Video Relay Interpreting Service. 

Vice-Principal (People and Diversity) and Athena Swan Institutional Chair

Dr Rebekah Widdowfield
Email: vpdiversity@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3321

People and Diversity Executive Officer

Pamela Dobson
Email: pf69@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2144

Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Paulette Nhlapo
Email: pnn1@st-andrews.ac.uk 
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 1649

Deputy Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Stuart Hall
Email: sah37@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2165

Head of Mediation and Wellbeing

Ruth Unsworth
Email: ru5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2048

Race Equality Charter Institutional Chair

Dr Akira O’Connor
Email: recchair@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2077

EDI Faculty Lead (Arts and Divinity)

Dr Neha Gopinath
Email: diversity-artsdiv@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2532

EDI Faculty Lead (Sciences and Medicine)

Professor Kevin Lala
Email: diversity-scimed@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3568

Equality and Diversity Awards Advisers

Dr Karen McGregor
Email: kfm3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 4151

Kathryn Herschell
Email: kh263@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 4264

EDI Assistant

James Law
Email: jl251@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 4155