Industry

Ogilvy: don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion – take action

Advertising and marketing giant Ogilvy UK is spearheading the drive to make the creative industries more diverse and inclusive

New breakfast club aims to tackle institutional racism in schools

Breakfast Clubs Against Racism launches crowdfunding appeal to help tackle the inequalities BAME communities face in schools

Are ethnic minority businesses more outward-looking and lucrative?

In an era of Brexit and an uneven economy due to COVID-19, we need ethnic minority entrepreneurs, and their £74 billion contributions, even more

Accelerator partners with VC firm to diversify funding climate

Are venture capitalists funding the same kinds of businesses? A new funding advice series wants VCs to support more diverse founders

High-level diversity and inclusion role key to driving organisational change

Commonwealth Financial Network bolsters its diversity, equity and inclusion strategy with new C-suite recruit.

Compliance sector marred by lip service on diversity

Diversity implementations in the financial services sector are shallow and ineffectual, suggests a new ICA report on the compliance sector

Always go where there’s space to grow: seeking challenge and adventure

Working at Salesforce has enabled Omar Faiz to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime

Organisation goes remote to solve journalism’s diversity issue

A mentorship scheme for journalists has gone online during lockdown. Will it help open up the sector to BAME and working-class candidates?

Dearth of female STEM students fuels skills gap

More female role models in the STEM industry are needed to plug the gender and skills gap at work

Black Girl Finance: challenging the lack of ethnicity pay gap reporting

We all already know about the impact of gender pay gap but what happens when we add on the intersectionality of race?