Helping Your Organisation Be The Best It Can Be

Be the best you can be this year by becoming a more inclusive organisation – and then watch your business grow. There is a whole waiting workforce among our refugee population. By unlocking it, you will unlock a wealth of skills and talent that will help your business prosper and grow.

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Bristol After Stroke – Supporting People With Stroke For 40 Years

Stroke is the 4th single leading cause of death and is a leading cause of disability. It happens suddenly, without warning, and can turn lives upside down.  Bristol After Stroke is a local independent charity whose mission is to support people to adapt to life after stroke. You may not have heard of us but … Continued

So, what is diversity and inclusion all about?

A question still asked… For those working in organisational human recourses management, this will be a key daily consideration. But what about the rest of the organisation? What about our profession? What about our community? What about you? Diversity and inclusion is so much more than policies, programs, or headcounts. It’s about a fundamental belief … Continued

Diversity in Menopause

Everybody who is affected by menopause, experiences it differently. The peri-menopause (the time before the actual menopause, when the majority of the symptoms occur) comes with over 50 different symptoms, varying from the commonly known hot flushes, weight gain and hair loss, to the less commonly known, electric shocks! Other factors come into play too, … Continued

Health First: Tips for Taking Ownership of Your Medical Well-Being

Image by Pexels As a differently-abled person, your health needs are unique, so it’s vital to ensure that your doctors are taking your concerns seriously and providing you with the best possible care. When you have an existing condition, it’s easy for any symptoms you experience to be written off as part of that ailment … Continued

Diversity, Discrimination and Intersectionality: Connecting with India

Photo features Agnese with colleagues from Global Policy Insight team, Arpit Chaturvedi (left) and Raj Kishor Tiwari (right) outside Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential estate.   As I’m writing this, I’m fresh from seeing ‘Rajesh and Naresh’, a play by James Ireland addressing love in the aftermath of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India in 2018. … Continued

Out With The Old, In With The New: The Generational Queer Divide

  The growing generational gap within the queer community is only becoming more apparent. Whether it’s online or in-person, older queer people are rarely included in conversations about queer issues, and often find themselves being excluded from queer spaces.  They are also regularly called out for using ‘outdated’ labels to describe themselves. These actions only … Continued

Micro-othering: discovering the damage of micro-aggressions

Micro-aggressions have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. From my earliest memories in the hairdresser’s chair, fair or tanned (depending on the time of year) I aroused curiosity with my hair and eyebrows ‘too dark and thick to be English’. “Where are you from?” they’d ask. “Where did you … Continued

The next steps towards achieving a gender inclusive culture.

It’s been wonderful over the last few years to see the number of people demonstrating their understanding of gender diversity by adding their preferred pronouns to email signatures, business cards and professional profiles. 6 million people on LinkedIn have added their pronouns to their profiles in the last year alone and we know that approximately … Continued