08:45
REGISTRATION OPENS, NETWORKING & EXHIBITION
09:45
PLENARY SESSION ONE
Diversity & Inclusion Review 2018
09:45
Welcome:
Dr Jana Javornik
Associate Professor in Work and Employment Relations, Leeds University Business School
09:50
Chair’s Opening Remarks:
Afua Hirsch
Writer, Broadcaster and Barrister
10:00
Plenary Presentation:
Is Britain fairer? The state of equality in Britain today
Alasdair MacDonald
Director of Programmes, Equality and Human Rights Commission
10:15
Panel Discussion 1: Gender, Social Mobility & Equality
Speakers include:
Zamila Bunglawala
Deputy Director, Strategy and Insight, Race Disparity Unit, Cabinet Office
Dr Omar Khan
Director, Runnymede Trust
Cllr Sanchia Alasia
Mayor of Barking and Dagenham
10:45
Panel Discussion 2: Age, Faith & Disability
Speakers include:
Mandy Sanghera
Multiple Award Winning Philanthropist, Independent Community & Global Consultant and Global Campaigner
Denise Keating
Chief Executive, enei
Atif Choudhury
Chief Executive, Diversity and Ability
Alasdair MacDonald
Director of Programmes, Equality and Human Rights Commission
11:15
REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING & EXHIBITION VIEWING
11:45
PLENARY SESSION TWO
Leadership & Implementation
11:45
Panel Discussion 3: Equality and Diversity through Inclusion
Speakers include:
Chloe Chambraud
Director of Gender Equality, Business in the Community (BITC)
Dr Jay Stewart MBE
Chief Executive, Gendered Intelligence
Claudia Iton
Diversity and Talent Management Specialist
12:15
Panel Discussion 4
12:45
LUNCH, NETWORKING EXHIBITION VIEWING & STUDIO INTERVIEW
13:10-13:40
Lunchtime workshop: Getting a real return on your investment in diversity amd inclusion
Simon Fanshawe OBE
Partner, diversity by design
13:45
PLENARY SESSION THREE
ACTION FOR INCLUSION
Host:
Afua Hirsch
Writer, Broadcaster and Barrister
1. THE NOON AWARD
2. TRANSPARENCY AWARDS
3. RESEARCH AWARDS
4. IMPACT AWARDS
5. UEL CHANCELLOR’S AWARD
6. TACKLING SERVICE DISPARITY AWARD
7. INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE AWARD
14:15
Nudging toward inclusion: developing and leveraging a behavioural diagnostic for inclusion
Stephen Frost
Chief Executive Officer, Frost Included
14:30
National Police Chiefs’ Council Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Tonya Antonis
Chief Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, County Policing Command Suffolk Constabulary
14:45
Disability inclusion in the workplace: transforming organisational culture through a community of practice
Dr Caroline Harper CBE
Chief Executive, Sightsavers
15:00
Panel Discussion 5
15:15
REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING & EXHIBITION VIEWING
15:30
BREAKOUT SESSIONS A
Workplace Chance – Reform, Innovation and Revolution
(Presentations to be selected from the call for papers – sessions are kept open to ensure most up to date material)
1. Main Stage
MEET THE AUTHOR – Why don’t we tell the truth about work and parenting?
Christine Armstrong
Author, ‘The Mother of All Jobs: How to have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish)’; Contributing Editor, Management Today
2. Case Study Stage
How identity shapes stakeholder attitudes and action towards progressing black, Asian and minority ethnic representation in senior leadership
Doyin Atewologun
Director, Centre of Gender & Leadership, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University
Fatima Tresh
ESRC PhD Researcher, University of Kent
Schwartz Rounds: finding space in the workplace for reflection
Emma Allen
Equality and Diversity Strategic Lead, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
3. Workshop Stage
Inclusive leadership: more than ‘managing diversity’
Presented by The Centre for Inclusive Leadership (TCfIL), London
Sajjad Iqbal
Director, TCfIL
Fitzroy Andrew
Associate, TCfIL
4. Case Study Stage
Internationalization at Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland: the meaning of inclusion for students’ success
Birgit Schmid MSc
School of Applied Psychology, Institute for Cooperation Research and Development Olten, Switzerland
BPP University Inclusion and Learning Support Service
Nicholas Glossop
Head of Inclusion and Learning Support, BPP University
5. Case Study Stage
Age friendly employers
Patrick Thomson
Senior Programme Manager, Centre for Ageing Better
Mary Bright
External Liaison lead for CEO UK Insurance, Aviva
How and why diversity and inclusion makes life better in the IPO
Lesley Babb
Head of Pay, Reward and Diversity
Ben Buchanan
Deputy Director, The Intellectual Property Office
16:15
BREAKOUT SESSIONS B
Change Makers
(Presentations to be selected from the call for papers – sessions are kept open to ensure most up to date material)
6. Main Stage
Driving inclusive practice and avoiding the potholes!
Atif Choudhury
Chief Executive, Diversity and Ability
Pam Blackhurst
Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Office for National Statistics
7. Debate Stage – Social Mobility
Men have babies too! Engaging men in building gender balance
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
Chief Executive, 20-First
8. Workshop Stage – GED Bright Sparks Case Studies
Symbols of change: image and action for inclusion
Bee Rowlatt
Writer and Journalist; Author of In Search of Mary
Dr Jill Armstrong
Bye Fellow and Researcher for Collaborating with Men Project, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
9. Case Study Stage
A short rant; how men and women can be feminists at work
Bee Rowlatt
Writer and Journalist; Author of In Search of Mary
Dr Jill Armstrong
Bye Fellow and Researcher for Collaborating with Men Project, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Domestic and faith based abuse
Mandy Sanghera
Multiple Award Winning Philanthropist, Independent Community & Global Consultant and Global Campaigner
10. Case Study Stage
Opt out or locked out? Paid parental leave policy and barriers to care and career for Australian fathers
Dr Samone McCurdy
Department of Social Work – Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
16:45
CONFERENCE CLOSES