8.30am - 9am Arrival registration
9am - 9.10am Introduction
9.10am - 9.30am Opening the conference
Zahara Chowdhury, EDI Business Partner at BNU and Sanum Khan, Assistant Headteacher, Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School The Room
Damien Page, Deputy Vice Chancellor, BNU The Room
Rachel Macfarlane,
9.30 - 11am Key note
This keynote will examine the role of leaders in ensuring that educators are consciously operating through a lens of race equity, creating safe spaces to talk about race and recruiting, retaining and developing staff and governors/trustees of colour. Rachel will share case studies and examples of strategies adopted across a range of schools which are striving to achieve race equity
11am - 11.30am Break The Room
11.30am - 12.15pm Key note
12.30pm - 1.15pm Navigating Intersectionality
Aisha Richards, Founder and Director of Shades of Noir
Hannah Wilson, Director and Founder of DiverseEd
This contribution will attempt to present a critical landscape of the HE sector at large through the canon of intersectional antiracism. Richards will aim to share perspectives with lessons learned from her practice as a leader in applied social justice in the sector.
Taking an intersectional approach to DEI ensures that no-one is left behind and that as educators and employers we are seeking to identify and remove multiple barriers. This session will provide: An understanding what intersectionality is. Reflect on how multiple systems of inequality overlap An awareness of the multiple factors that manifest advantage and disadvantage.
• Recognition of how intersectionality impacts individuals and groups.
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