the lgbt student survey 2004
The LGBTA conducts an annual survey of its membership. It allows us both to find out what we're doing right and where there's room for improvement, and what LGBT students at Durham University think of the place more generally.
the university
The response to the question "Do you strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree or strongly disagree with the statement 'Durham University is a tolerant environment for LGBT people'?" was as follows:
14% strongly agreed
65% agreed
15% neither agreed nor disagreed
6% disagreed
0% strongly disagreed
So in total 79% agreed and 6% disagreed.
70% said they had never encountered any form of abuse related to their sexuality or identity while at university. The other 30% had done, although in most cases it was very minor and isolated.
the lgbta
The percentages either rating as good or very good (not just 'okay'), or
making positive (not just neutral) comments on different aspects of our activities
were as follows:
Publicity: 64%
Profile in the University: 66% ('about right' rather than 'too low' or 'too
high')
Friendliness of events: 58%
Monday night socials: 53%
Termcard: 80%
Use of mailing list: 79%
This website: 82%
Discussion board: 51%
LGBT Student Handbook: 83%
Confidentiality: 74%
Welfare support: 76%
Political / campaigns work: 62%
LGBT Awareness Week 2004: 65%
Organisation: 84%
Overall: 85%
more details
You can download a much fuller statistical breakdown of the responses to
these questions and various others here as a Word file
or as a PDF file. All the comments that were made
have been processed and read by the Exec, and will prove very useful to us
in trying to improve what we offer for the future, but to respect the confidentiality
of respondents they are not included in this edited version.
