CHANCELLOR’S AWARD
Presented by Geoff Thompson MBE, Chair of Governors, University of East London
PROJECT: Bedfordshire Police Community Cohesion Team
RECIPIENT: Chief Inspector Hob Hoque
Congratulations to Bedfordshire Police for being awarded the Chancellor’s Award.
(They have Luton in their patch and all the issues within the Muslim community and between the Muslim community and others. The various provocations of the far right have targeted their patch. They track incidents, measure reported rising tensions and engage hard with the BME community to help diffuse situations).
PROJECT: IBM’s Global Supplier Diversity Program
RECIPIENT: Louise Harries, UK HR Services Sourcing Lead
PROJECT: Transparency at The Bank of England
RECIPIENT: Simon Fillery, Head of Inclusion
Congratulations to The Bank of England for winning this year’s award for transparency.
PROJECT: Equality Monitoring of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust’s Workforce
RECIPIENT: Representative of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
They identified significant disparities and under representations in an area with a large Asian population – 18%, but only 13% working in the trust. They Identified significant under representation of British Asian staff in nursing. With a workforce of 5574, they admitted they lacked key data on 25% of the workforce. In addition, they were transparent on the non heterosexual staff, reporting higher levels of bullying and staff having trust issues with the trust. They have developed a comprehensive action plan and are leading in an increasingly challenging area after the government publication of disparity statistics.
PROJECT: Diversity and Inclusion at AIG
RECIPIENT: Julie Humphreys, Head of Diversity and Inclusion
Congratulations to AIG, this year’s Impact Award Winner.
PROJECT: Improving diversity of participants on Executive Talent Schemes
RECIPIENT: Janette Durbin, Director, Civil Service Talent
PROJECT: Researching inventor gender profiles in worldwide patenting
RECIPIENT: Christopher Harrison, Senior Patent Examiner and Senior Informatics Analyst, IPO
Congratulations to the IPO for winning the GED Research Award 2017.
A piece of research involving the predictive use of first names over a worldwide database of 36 million names. In the process they open up a whole new challenge to add to the gender disparity in STEM , in Finance and in Tech. Progress can now be measured for the first time.
PROJECT: Moving Ahead Project
RECIPIENT: Representative from Northampton Healthcare NHS Trust
Raj has helped launch a new social enterprise DRIVE (Diversity Recruitment Institute for Value and Excellence) – we could add an award for acronyms – Chaired by Baroness Jan Royal with the aim of affect an extra 150,000 hiring choices over the next 5 years. Raj is active in publishing reports and features regularly and actively in broadcasting and trade media.
He is a special advisor the Prime Ministers Social Mobility Implementation Office and has contributed to the Parker Review, the Davies Review and the McGregor-Smith review.
This award recognised the range of Raj Tulsiani’s personal commitment above and beyond his business engagement.