At SMCL NGS Hub, our strength comes from our people. We value diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, and we work to ensure everyone can contribute, learn, and thrive. EDI shapes how we recruit, train, support, and collaborate — with fairness, respect, and accessibility at every level.
EDI is a shared responsibility: it grows through what each of us brings to the table, and through the everyday choices we make to include, listen, and support one another — while holding ourselves to shared standards and a common goal: delivering excellent work for the communities we serve.
As part of the University of Cambridge and the NIHR community, this commitment is central to our mission. We align with their principles of excellence, integrity, and inclusion, because outstanding science and a supportive culture go hand in hand.
For us, EDI is lived — not just written.
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A multilingual, multicultural team serving a diverse community. As SMCL has grown, we’ve consistently been an international team — at one point bringing together 10 colleagues, each from a different country, and remaining similarly diverse over the past few years. At our 2024 Christmas lunch, a colleague noted that six of us at the same table each spoke a different mother tongue. This diversity is a real strength: it helps us communicate openly, think broadly, and support our researchers and partners with greater understanding and impact.
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Family-friendly, across roles and genders. Many of our staff balance careers with raising young families. We actively support flexible working and a healthy, joyful work–life balance — because people thrive when life and science can grow together.
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Neurodivergence is welcome. MultiOmics demands creative problem-solving, pattern recognition and deep focus. Different cognitive styles strengthen how we work with complexity — and can be especially valuable in the entrepreneurial and translational side of a modern research facility, where innovation, adaptability, and turning ideas into impact matter.
EDI at SMCL NGS Hub is not a checklist — it’s part of how we work, what we each contribute, how we support one another, and how we deliver the best possible service to our research and clinical community.