As interim Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield, Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the University’s Senior LGBT Champion, Gill regularly engages with the views of people at all levels across the University. She represents LGBT and diversity issues at the University Executive Board level, and ensures that LGBT equality remains at the forefront of University policy. She led a membership review of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, changing the membership to ensure the LGBT staff network had the opportunity to input into the development of University equality and diversity priorities. She also gave the keynote speech at the launch of the University’s Allies Programme, is often featured in internal media, and on International Transgender Day of Visibility, launched a new e-learning module to the University’s 8,000+ staff, designed to help people understand trans issues. She has always fully supported her institution’s entry into Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, and her work has contributed to the University’s ranking as a Top 100 Employer for four years running. As an academic she works on the sub-disciplinary field of geographies of sexualities and rethinks intersections between gender, age, race, disability, and sexuality in processes of inclusion.
