LGBTQ+ staff profiles

Justin Cule

Clinical Skills and Simulation Manager

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

The University isn’t just a job for me, it’s been a huge part of my life and I continue to enjoy every day here.

Rev. Kate Harford

(Rev., she/her)

University Chaplain and Pastoral Care Lead

Chaplaincy, Academic and Student Administration

Training officer for the LGBTQ+ Staff Forum

My experience of being out at Brookes has been a really positive one - people are sometimes surprised to find a married queer priest in the Multifaith Chaplaincy office but it’s a good conversation-starter.

Nicholas Groom

Teaching Fellow

Paramedic Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

I feel like we have a responsibility to make the LGBTQ+ community more visible and continue to normalise us within the modern society.

Dr Peter Forsaith

Research Fellow

Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Brookes has always been an affirmative community; three colleagues in particular supported me through ‘coming out’, they were wonderful. I’ve tried to be there similarly for others.

Dr Rianne Costello

Lecturer in Nutrition

Department of Sport, Health Science and Social Work, Faculty ofHealth and Life Sciences

I first walked through the doors at Brookes back in 2014 as a MSc student and have never once felt discriminated against or ashamed for being a gay woman.

Dr Roger Dalrymple

Programme Lead

School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

As a university lecturer working with schoolteachers and other educational practitioners, I want to support and encourage LGBTQ+ role models in all educational settings.

Ross Brooks

PhD Student

School of History Philosophy and Culture, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

I have always been out and proud as a gay man at Brookes and I am impressed by all the support, events, and initiatives that are now such an integral part of life within the University.

Sarah Madden-Queralt

Deputy Director of Sport, and Estates and Campus Services Strategic Projects

Estates and Campus Services

I feel a responsibility to be visible to everyone and play an active role in ensuring the future landscape is an inclusive one, where respect drives behaviour and shapes culture.

Stephanie Atherton

(she/her)

Study Higher Liaison Manager

Marketing Recruitment & Engagement

Bi/Pan Representative for the LGBTQ+ Staff Forum

I think the main benefit of being out at work is the opportunity to represent a minority* sexuality and perhaps help to unpick some of the stigmas and stereotypes surrounding bisexuality which may have been learned from society – as well as generally raising awareness about the whole LGBTQIA+ spectrum!

Dr Susan Cheyne

Teaching Fellow

Biological Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Do not be afraid to be yourself, Brookes is an open and supportive environment and there are many groups and networks for you to join to help your move to Oxford.

Dr Yue S. Ang

Senior Lecturer

School of Law, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

My background straddles between the Eastern and Western worlds. More often, I do not fit in any of the worlds and the intersection of being LGBTQ adds to the challenge.