Key policies

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

We've waded through the department and University's many policies to bring you the few that you really need to be familiar with. Please take a moment to read through these and see how we like to do things here.

Strongly recommended for all new staff, the Equality Policy is designed to help you to reflect on equality and diversity in the workplace, as well as to promote awareness and foster good practice.

The University does not tolerate any form of harassment or victimisation and expects all members of the University community, its visitors and contractors to treat each other with respect, courtesy and consideration.

The University has a duty to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of their employees at work.

The University expects all members of the University to observe the highest standards of ethics and integrity in the conduct of their research.

All University of Oxford staff have a responsibility to ensure that the information that they hold and use is handled appropriately. This training is mandatory for all new starters, please follow the link to begin as soon as you have a University login.

Check out the Researchers’ Toolkit - a set of webpages bringing together information about divisional and central resources and support services, organised for easy browsing, and including a useful A-Z list.

All University staff and students are required to recognise and disclose activities that might give rise to conflicts of interest or the perception of conflicts and to ensure that such conflicts are seen to be properly managed or avoided.

There are some key University codes of practice and policies, including the staff handbooks, which you may wish to familiarise yourself with. This is a great page to bookmark in case you want to refer to these in due course. Please note the difference in the two handbooks depending on your salary grade.

Staff handbook - Support staff (Grade 1-5)

Staff handbook - Academic-related staff (Grade 6 and above)

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