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Welcome to WIM21! We are so happy to have been able to put on a conference for you all in what has been a very difficult year. It has been a challenge for the committee this year, as we have not been in the same room throughout the whole planning process, but we hope you appreciate our efforts to bring the spirit of an in-person conference to you this March. We have such an amazing line-up this year, it's our biggest yet and I hope you learn some valuable skills, make connections and have fun hearing some inspiring. people talk about their fascinating lives! The Women in Media Conference was founded in 2016 by a group of students at the University of Manchester who, even at student level, noticed that the media industry was dominated by men. Something needed to change! So, in 2016, the first Women in Media Conference was held in Manchester to celebrate the achievements of women within the industry. Our aim has always been to educate and inspire young people wishing to have a career in the media, building upon the skills they need to succeed and connecting them with a network of inspiring women. The conference also aims to address ongoing intersectional issues, including gender, class, and racial imbalances within the media. Each year we invite influential women from a wide range of backgrounds to share their stories and expertise, as well as the challenges they have faced in the industry. WIM2021, has been organised and run by an all-student team from the Manchester Media Group, the media wing of the University of Manchester Students' Union. It is a celebration of the successes of women from a wide range of sectors within the media industry. We are excited to bring you panels and talks from women in sectors from politics, and radio to reporting for children, working behind the scenes and hearing from women working at the forefront of diversity campaigns within the media We welcome delegates of all genders to WIM21 and encourage you to explore what's on offer this year and discover the wide range of career opportunities available within the media industry. We want you to feel empowered to break through whatever barriers are stopping you from reaching your goals! On behalf of the whole WIM21 committee, thank you so much for attending this years virtual conference and donating to our two amazing charities: Once a Month & MASH. We are so excited to get started!
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Monday 15th 19:30pm 'In Conversation with Eve Bennett'
Tuesday 16th
18:00 pm Regional Newspaper Journalism Panel 19:00 pm Global & Conflict Journalism Panel
Wednesday 17th 13:30 pm In Conversation with Laura Kuenssberg 17:30pm Just Made it in the Media Panel
Thursday 18th 17:00 pm Diversity & Accessbility Panel 18:00 pm Tik Tok Panel
19:00 pm Zines & Starting your own Publication
Friday 19th
18:00 pm In Conversation with Dr Radha
Saturday 20th 11:00 am CV Workshop with Journo Resources 15:00 pm Social Media Panel 19:00 pm Angst, Thongs & Perfect Snogging: Female Sexuality in the Media
Sunday 21st 16:00 pm Reporting on a Pandemic
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Monday 22nd 18:00 pm Political Journalism 19:00 Music in the Media Panel
Tuesday 23rd 17:00 pm SYP Publishing Panel 18:00 pm Women in Sport 19:00 pm Reporting for Children
Wednesday 24th 17:00 pm STEM Panel 18:00 pm In Conversation with Sally Nugent 19:00 pm Building your Brand
Thursday 25th 12:30 pm In Conversation with Beth Rigby 18:00 pm In Conversation with Julie Ritson
Friday 26th
11:00 am Building your network workshop 13:00 pm PR Panel 19:00 pm Freelancing Panel
Saturday 27th
11:00 am Radio Panel 15:00 pm Producing & Working Behind the Scenes
Sunday 28th
14:00 pm Regional Broadcasting 20:00 pm In Conversation with Suzi Ruffell & Tom Allen
Our wonderful charities Each year all the profits from the conference goes to charity, this year we have chosen to support both MASH (Manchester Action on Street Health and Once A Month
Once A Month
are a student-led volunteer group that work to tackle period poverty in Manchester. They organise the making of essential items which are distributed to charities, vulnerable groups and rough sleepers.
"We started off at the University of Manchester, but last year we started creating sister projects at universities across England, so we now have 6 Once a Month projects and we're always looking to grow bigger!"
MASH
Manchester Action on Street Health are a charity that provides free and confidential support for women who are sex working in Greater Manchester. Mash runs a drop-in centre in the 'beat' area, proactively visits women in saunas (massage parlours) and takes the MASH mobile drop-in van out, late at night, around the streets of Manchester and Cheetham Hill to reach women sex working on the streets.
Monday 15th March 7pm
In Conversation with...
Eve Bennett
Eve is a modern languages undergraduate at Oxford University and the founder of The Meridian Magazine, a publication designed for aspiring young journalists. She also has a YouTube channel with over 230,000 subscribers where she documents student life and offers study tips.
WIM and Wine
WIM and wine events are our more relaxed evening talks that give you the chance to put down the pen and enjoy these wonderful journeys in the media. Meet the speaker and ask questions in a more relaxed environment. So, pour yourself a glass of wine and be entertained and inspired by the amazing people we have lined up for you.
Regional Newspaper Journalism Panel
Tuesday 16th March 6pm
Helen Pidd is the North of England editor of the Guardian, part of a team of reporters in the Guardian's original home of Manchester. She has been a foreign correspondent, reporting from Myanmar, Delhi, Berlin and much of Europe, and started her career as a features commissioning editor.
Helen Pidd In 2020 Maria Breslin became the Liverpool Echo’s first woman editor in its 141-year history having previously spearheaded the title’s huge online growth. She is passionate about local news and improving diversity in our newsrooms. Maria previously worked as the Echo's head of content, was a news editor at the North Wales Daily Post and worked as a reporter in the Press Association's northern bureau for five years. She started her journalism career at the reporter group of newspapers in Manchester after training as a journalist at UCLAN. She is a mum-of-one and lives in south Liverpool. She enjoys reading, watching football and did a bit of yoga prelockdown.
Maria Breslin
Regional Newspaper Journalism Panel
Tuesday 16th March 6pm
Before becoming a journalist, Dani worked in digital marketing. She is due to finish her fast-track NCTJ diploma with News Associates this month, and is currently working at The Mill.
Dani Cole
Sanjeeta Bains writes for Birmingham Live and is a feature writer with a focus on food, drink and restaurant reviewing across the city. Sanjeeta focuses on current positive stories in Birmingham to let locals know where to visit and any new scenes they should be in the know about!
Sanjeeta Bains
Global and Conflict Journalism 16th March 6-7pm Faranak Amidi is a journalist and broadcaster for BBC World Service. She is the women's Affairs reporter for the near east region of the World Service-her current project is the relaunch of BBC Pashto's Instagram page for women. The Page is dedicated to covering issues related to pashto speaking women in the region. Faranak also presents a weekly radio program called the Fifth Floor on BBC World Service Radio every Friday. Faranak joined the BBC as a Broadcast Journalist for the BBC Persian Service. She left the service in 2017 and joined the Near East Visual journalism team as a women's affairs journalist. She has used your Instagram page ever since as both a newsgathering tool and a platform to amplify the voices of Farsi speaking women (cis gender and trans) and LGBTQ+ communities.
Emily Webb is the presenter of Outlook, the BBC World Service programme that focuses on extraordinary personal stories and the people behind the headlines. Emily has reported on stories ranging from groups of bikers helping tsunami survivors in Japan to diamond heist detectives in Antwerp. As winner of the 2018 Sue Lloyd Roberts Awards she presented a series of pieces for radio and television about a group volunteers rescuing people accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea. After graduating with a degree in Social Anthropology, Emily started out as a local radio reporter for BBC Somerset; she then worked in television before joining the BBC World Service in 2016. She lives in London.
Deborah Haynes is foreign affairs editor, covering the biggest foreign stories around the world and carrying out her own investigations. She has reported from Europe on Brexit the United States on Donald Trump, and broken stories on suspected Russian disinformation operations and suspected cyber attacks in the UK. Before joining Sky, she was defence editor and previously Iraq correspondent at The Times. She covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as focusing on armed forces issues in the UK, including exposing the true extent of a funding crisis within the UK's military. She won the Amnesty International award for national newspaper human rights reporting in 2008 for a series on the plight of Iraqi interpreters working for UK forces in Iraq.
In Conversation with Laura Kuenssberg Wednesday 17th March 1:30pm
Laura is the political editor of BBC News. Before that she was Newsnight's chief correspondent and a regular presenter of the programme after a spell as ITV News business editor. Laura has lived and worked in France and in the United States. Before joining the BBC in 2000, Laura worked in local radio and TV and studied at Edinburgh and Georgetown universities. She is a proud Glaswegian, but lives happily in East London.
Wednesday 17th 5:30pm Just made it in the
Media
Nimo Omer
Nimo Omer recently joined Tortoise Media as a Reporter after completing a BA in Politics at the University of Manchester. She has since started hosting the Sensemaker Daily podcast - the daily news podcast from Tortoise. She was also a founding editor of The Meridian Magazine and has worked as a freelance reporter with work published in The Independent, Gal-dem, Black Ballad among other places. Her journalism focuses on race, Brexit, migration and social movements.
Hannah Montgomery Hannah currently works in radio for BBC News as a Studio Manager/Director working across Radio 4, 5 Live, World Service and the Asian Network. She has previously written for BroadwayWorld. movements.
Isobel Lewis
Isobel Lewis is a culture reporter at The Independent, writing news, features and reviews about all areas of the entertainment industry while specialising in comedy and TV. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter for Metro.co.uk and Bustle and has written for publications including The Atlantic, The Guardian and Vice.
Diversity and Accessibility Panel
Thursday 18th 5pm
Lara Joannides
Lara Joannides is a senior journalist and currently lead of the BBC’s 50:50 Equality Project, an award-winning initiative to increase the representation of underserved audiences in the media. She has more than ten years of experience producing News content for leading broadcaster news outlets, with a particular focus on underserved audiences. Before joining 50:50, Lara was the output editor for BBC Africa's first-ever youth programme, BBC What’s New
Nina Goswami BBC Creative Diversity Lead and journalist. Nina spearheads initiatives, including the multi-award winning 50:50 Project, to support the BBC's aspiration that its on-air representation reflects society. Nina is also a journalist and edits the BBC’s National TV Bulletins. She has worked in media her whole professional career including at The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph. Nina is also featured in the Global Diversity List 2020’s Top 20 Diversity Professionals and was highly commended at the Asian Women Achievement Awards 2020.
Diversity and Accessibility Panel Thursday 18th 5pm Thursday 18th March 5pm
Navene Alim Navene Alim is a Senior Lawyer at Channel 4 within the Corporate Legal department. Navene is an experienced commercial lawyer, specialising in platform deals, ad tech and software development. She is committed to diversity and inclusion and, alongside her day job, is a founder and co-chair of the Channel 4 Women’s Network. 4Women were responsible for launching the Channel’s dedicated menopause policy, the first among UK media companies to do so. The policy was recently shared publicly to encourage other companies to use it. She also sits on the Channel 4 BAME network and works closely with HR on employee initiatives that promote inclusion across the channel.
TikTok TikTok Panel Panel
Thursday 18th March 6pm Florence has worked in marketing and advertising for over 4 years. After completing a Level 3 Photography Diploma from Lincoln College she went on to work for a UK Top 100 brand agency, and is now working for Purpose Marketing and as Creative Director for s.media, a specialist YouTube media partner. During the first lockdown, she began taking TikTok seriously and has since grown her following to over 30 thousand with an engagement rate of 10.8%. Her content includes lifestyle videos, vlogs, fashion and styling videos, which she has also branched over to her YouTube channel.
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Florence Florence Price Price
I’m a printmaker and animator based in Liverpool, my work is centred around female empowerment and social issues such as climate justice! I’d describe my work as a mix of contemporary illustration with influences from vintage music / protest posters all tied together with a rebellious punky spirit !
TikTok TikTok Panel Panel
Thursday 18th March 6pm Hello! I'm Eva, Illustrator from Brighton. Drawing is my passion and I'm very lucky to say it became my full-time career in 2020. I've worked continuously for the past 2 years, to build the business I run today, shipping out orders worldwide! Everything is designed by me, ethically produced in the UK and shipped out by either myself or my parents from our home, in 100% recyclable and biodegradable packaging. Alongside this, I'm also a full-time Brighton Uni student, currently in my 2nd year studying BA Illustration. I love creating products that people feel excited about purchasing, and am very passionate about creating art that is not only aesthetically pleasing but also accessible and affordable.
Eva Eva Malley Malley
Neve Gordon-Farleigh is a freelance journalist, podcaster and radio producer. Armed with a ring light and hours spent scrolling the latest trends, she is also the content producer for the Journo Resources Tik Tok page.
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Thursday 18th 7pm
Zines Zines
Beth Kirkable
Beth Kirkbride is a gold-standard NCTJaccredited freelance journalist who has worked with Cosmopolitan, Metro, The Telegraph and more. Her main beats are entertainment, showbiz, tech, digital culture and lifestyle. Beth is also the founder and music editor of The Indiependent, a volunteer-led entertainment outlet and print magazine providing opportunities for early-career stage journalists, established in 2014.
Casey Logue Casey is a graduate student in Philosophy and English Literature and teacher of English. Her research interests include feminist aesthetics and the ethics of objectification. Casey created Peach Street in 2019 and remains the magazine’s editor. She’s in between Liverpool and the Midlands, is a massive lefty, and thoroughly enjoys coffee, oranges, and books that weren’t written by men.
Thursday 18th
Zines Zines Sharan Dhaliwal Sharan Dhaliwal founded the UK’s leading South Asian magazine Burnt Roti, which is a platform for young creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and destigmatise topics around mental health and sexuality, amongst others. She is the Director of Middlesex Pride and creator of Oh Queer Cupid, a queer speed dating and comedy night. She has had bylines in i-D, HuffPost, the Guardian and was on the list of global influential women for the BBC 100 Women 2019. She is currently writing her debut non-fiction book Burning My Roti, to be released in September 2021 by Hardie Grant.
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In Conversation with Dr Radha Friday 19th 6pm
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Dr. Radha is a practising NHS GP, broadcaster & campaigner for wellbeing. She has appeared on a number of shows across the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, including Life Hacks, The Sex Education Show, This Morning and BBC Breakfast as both a presenter and medical expert. She has a particular interest in young people’s health & supporting parents, and has worked on campaigns with BBC Children in Need, Public Health England, MIND, British Heart Foundation, JDRF, The Mix And the NHS Youth Forum.
Social Media Panel Saturday 20th March 3pm
Chandni Sembhi Chandni Sembhi is the founder of the Soyouwanttobeajournalist Instagram account, giving advice and tips to people wanting to get into or progress in the media industry. She also works as a content editor for Viacom/ Channel 5.
Asyia Iftikhar Asyia is a student and freelance journalist with bylines in gal-dem and The Metro. She is founder of the Young Journalist Community Facebook Group
Angst, Thongs and Perfect Snogging:Female Sexuality in the Media Saturday 20th March 7-8pm Sharan Dhaliwal Sharan Dhaliwal is the Director of Middlesex Pride and creator of Oh Queer Cupid, a queer speed dating and comedy night. She has had bylines in i-D, HuffPost, the Guardian and was on the list of global influential women for the BBC 100 Women 2019.
Annie Lord
Annie is the UK Vogue's online dating columnist. She also has written features for Vice, The Sunday Times, the New Statesman and more. She wrote an article that went viral about Connell from Normal People's chain
Hannah Ewens
Hannah Ewens is a writer and editor at VICE UK where she covers culture. She has been published in Guardian, the Sunday Times Style, The Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, the Observer, Kerrang! and Crack. Her first non-fiction book Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture is out now.
Hannah Van-de Peer
Hannah is a staff writer for The Breakdown, as well as a
freelance lifestyle journalist. She has previously written for HuffPost, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian and Metro. Specialising in sex, dating, feminism and health, Hannah says she’s ‘in the business of breaking taboos’ surrounding female sexuality.
Reporting a Pandemic
Sunday 21st 4pm
Emily Morgan Emily Morgan is the Health Editor for ITV News having led Health coverage since 2017. Prior to this, she covered politics for ITV News, where she played an integral role in the 2017 general election coverage following Theresa May’s "battle bus", during which she became known as the correspondent to ask the blunt questions. As ITV New's health correspondent and subsequently as Health Editor, Emily has repeatedly exposed discrimination and racism towards BAME Doctors and Nurses in the NHS. Since the beginning of 2020, Emily has led the Coronavirus coverage for ITV News, and became one of the first broadcast journalists to report from a UK hospital early in the pandemic.
Rosamund Pearce
Deborah Cohen Deb Cohen is Health Correspondent of BBC Newsnight. She studied Medicine and French at the University of Manchester before becoming an editor of the BMJ editing academic and debate sections of the journal becoming its first Investigations Editor in 2010.Deb has also done investigations with Panorama, Channel 4 News, Dispatches, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Telegraph. She was also a fellow in Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University and has won several awards for her work.
Rosamund Pearce is a Visual Data Journalist for The Economist. She creates both static and interactive data visualisations, primarily for the Graphic Detail section. Prior to joining The Economist in 2019, Rosamund produced multimedia for Carbon Brief, a climate change news site. Her work there twice won the Association of British Science Writers’ Innovation of the Year award. Rosamund has given talks about data visualisation to a number of institutions, including the Royal Meteorological Society. She holds an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London.
Political Journalism Moya Lothian-McLean
Moya Lothian-McLean is a features journalist who works across editorial, audio and visual content. She's reported for the likes of the BBC, The Independent and The Guardian and is currently Politics Editor at gal-dem, whilst concurrently working on an upcoming history podcast with Broccoli Content.
monday 22nd march 6pm
Harriet Line
Nicola Slawson Nicola Slawson is a news, culture and social affairs journalist. Nicola is an experienced reporter and editor working for national newspapers, magazines and digital-only publications.
Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor at PA, the UK's national news agency. She reports on major political events from the Houses of Parliament and has accompanied prime ministers on visits overseas. Harriet has also worked at The Times and started her journalism career at Durham University's student newspaper Palatinate. She was named PA's News Reporter of the Year in 2020.
22nd March
Music in the Media
7pm
wherearethegirlbands @wherearethegirlbands is a project dedicated to making the music scene more accessible to everyone, through the promotion and celebration of women creatives in Liverpool. The page gives a platform to artists and their work with interviews, reviews, panel discussions and more, and aims to open up the discussion around gender inequality in the music industry and in local scenes. The page acts as a directory for artists to network and collaborate, creating connections that span across artistic disciplines, social backgrounds, levels of experience and more.
Rebecca Mason "I’m a 23 year old full time, Manchester based music publicist at Sonic PR, and founder/editor of the online music publication One Great Song (www.onegreatsong.co.uk) I’ve been with Sonic PR for the past 3/4 years now, working on both regional and national press campaigns for a mix established and upcoming artists including the likes of Dream Wife and Hinds. I’ve also been running One Great Song in my spare time since the age of 16/17, and occasionally book & promote live shows in the North West.."
22nd March
Music in the Media
7pm
Georgia Hardy Georgia is the founder of promotions company Spilt Milk and has programmed events for the likes of VICE, LNZRT, DIY Magazine and Goose Island at some of London's best loved independent music venues, including The Old Blue Last, MOTH Club, The Shacklewell Arms, Sebright Arms, and The Windmill. She is also the co-founder of Route, a community interest company which aims to diversify the music industry workforce and inspire young people at the start of their careers by sharing stories, experiences and practical advice from within its numerous fields..
Annette Lee
Annette Lee is the Head of Press at the British independent record label 4AD (part of the Beggars Group, which includes the labels Matador Records, Rough Trade Records and XL Recordings). Born and raised in the UK to Chinese immigrant parents, she interned at the label’s parent company The Beggars Group before being offered a receptionist job at its London HQ after graduating in 2005. Annette was promoted to her current role in 2011.In recent years, Annette has overseen press campaigns for Tkay Maidza, Holly Herndon, Future Islands, Big Thief and Aldous Harding, adding to a history of working with the likes of Scott Walker, Deerhunter, St. Vincent, David Byrne, Tune-Yards, Daughter, Mark Lanegan, The National, The Breeders among many more. Annette was named Best In-House PR of the Year in 2011 at the Record of the Day Awards, while her team picked up Best In-House Department in both 2011 and 2012.
22nd March
Music in the Media
Ruth Wyatt
7pm
Hannah Tinker
I started out on the media side of the music industry a few years ago, while I was at university. I was working at a supermarket while studying and started doing odd voluntary bits to angle myself towards the creative industry, like writing for Gigslutz, I built a website for a friend's band (now defunct), helped out musician friends with social media and was a chief organiser for Oxjam Leeds. Carried on working for a supermarket then got a very dull desk job after university and started writing for MCR Live, a blog and radio station. After a few months or so, I was invited to become the Editor for the site part-time - quickly left the desk job and went into bar work alongside this. Then a few months later was offered a full-time position as Editor, Social Media Coordinator and a general radio/sessions Assistant. Sadly, in early 2019, MCR Live closed and I was then offered a role as counter/bar staff at Wilderness Record Store. A couple of months in, I presented my previous experience and industry knowledge to the team behind it and now I'm the Marketing and Programming Manager for the store and venue, which is a very hands-on role. Alongside this, I'm the co-founder of Fair Play Festival, which stems around having an equal and fair billing across gender, sexuality and race and manage the electronic duo YAANG..
"‘Ruth is a Creative and Licensing Sync Manager at major record label Warner Music, home to legendary powerhouse labels Atlantic Records, Parlophone Records and Warner Records. Beginning her career at Abbey Road Studios with film supervision company HotHouse Music, Ruth learnt the ropes of sync working on projects such as The Inbetweeners 2, Suffragette, and Philomena.With over six years music industry experience, Ruth heads up the trailer, film and television sync denominations at Warner Music UK, placing the artists’ music into as many opportunities as possible.This includes track placements in trailers, such as Last Christmas (2019), Greed (2020), to BBC productions ie. critically acclaimed ‘I May Destroy You’, and everything from Sky Sports and BBC Sport shows (Football Focus/MOTD), to working closely with music supervisors on Netflix shows ie. End of The F**king World, Sex Education, Top Boy, to bespoke pieces for Netflix originals, BT Sport and Hollyoaks, to music placements in reality TV shows such as The Circle, Made In Chelsea, and Love Island.Ruth also has an ear for new music and through Warner Music’s boutique publishing company W Songs, she signs emerging talent to help give writers/artists further exposure and a leg-up through sync.Her passion for music underpins her breadth of music knowledge and expertise.’
Publishing Panel Tuesday 23rd March 5pm Mandy Gao
Editorial Books Intern at SAGE Publishing. Graduated from the University of Manchester in 2020 with a degree in foreign languages and joined SAGE through a BAME-internship programme. Although working for a London-based company in a Londoncentric industry, she is working from her cosy desk in Manchester.
Rosie Howie
Rosie Howie is the Senior Publisher at Hodder Gibson, Scotland’s leading educational publisher and part of the Hodder Education group. She has worked in publishing for a decade and has a passion for producing the best possible resources to support students and teachers.
Elizabeth Beck Freelance proofreader, with experience in production at both Saraband and Manchester University Press. SYP North Chair and Treasurer.
Women in Sport Panel TUESDAY 23rd MARCH 6PM
Rebecca Myers
Rebecca Myers is a journalist for The Times and Sunday Times, specialising in women's sport. She is the lead reporter on the paper's annual Sportswomen of the Year awards and has reported from the Commonwealth Games, the FIFA Women's World Cup, and the World Athletics Championships. She was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year 2018.
Sarah Collins
Sarah Collins is an Executive producer at talkSPORT, developing on air-talent such as Andy Cole and Darren Bent and working on production teams across the network. She is an award-winning journalist, including a Sony Gold Award: Producer of the ‘Breaking News’ nomination and ‘Best Sports Programme’ at the Gillards. Prior to her move to talkSPORT she spent 23 years at the BBC, and was Head of Sport at BBC Radio Manchester and freelance editor at BBC 5 Live (606). Away from work she is passionate about grassroots sport, inspiring young people and giving back to the community. She is a Co-Founder of Dominoes Junior Netball Club in Manchester, the club now boasts 150+ players.
Women in Sport Panel TUESDAY 23rd MARCH 6PM
Sarah Mulkerrins
Sarah Mulkerrins is a Sports Presenter with BBC News. She has covered The Olympics & Paralympics, Women's World Cups & Euros, The Premier League, Six Nations Rugby, Golf Majors and more. For the BBC, she works across TV and Radio for both their domestic and world channels, presenting on the BBC 1, the News Channel, BBC World News, 5 Live Radio and the BBC World Service. From Galway, she did a degree in Communications Studies at Dublin City University before working for an independent production company and the broadcaster Setanta Sports in Ireland. She moved to Manchester in 2011 to work on a football magazine show for the BBC and has been with the corporation since
Katie Whyatt Katie Whyatt is a UK-based women's football correspondent for The Athletic. She was previously the women's football reporter for the Daily Telegraph, where she was the first full-time women's football reporter on a national paper. This year, she is nominated for the Football Supporters' Association's writer of the year and is nominated for the Sports Journalists' Association Awards in the football and young journalist categories
BBC : Rep orti ng For Chil d Tue ren s 23r day d 7p m Shanequa Paris made her TV debut as a presenter on CBBC’s news programme Newsround, presenting live bulletins each morning to thousands of children. Thrown into the deep end at the beginning of the UK’s first ever lockdown, Shanequa reported on the updating story of Covid-19 and filmed special reports during the Black Lives Matter protests. With a passion for broadcasting Shanequa has produced for BBC 1Xtra, presented on BBC local radio, focussing on engaging the 16-
Shanequa Paris
24year old demographic with hot topics and pop culture debating.
Cerys is Head of Content Production in BBC Education, the department which aims to transform lives through education by delivering annual campaigns aimed at countering a cultural, societal or educational need, and Bitesize - the BBC’s formal education resource for children and young people. Cerys is responsible for all BBC Education’s campaigns and promotion, it’s well-being and support portfolio for parents and young people on Bitesize as well as the TV offer for Lockdown Learning and beyond. Cerys is a former TV and newspaper journalist and has been an editor of news programmes for both the BBC and ITV.
Cerys Griffiths
STEM in the Media 24th March 5pm
Abigail is a Senior Systems Engineer for BBC News' Contribution Network, delivering connectivity solutions for BBC News and Sport events. Abigail has 6 years experience in broadcasting, having joined the BBC on a graduate scheme. Abigail is an active STEM Ambassador and member of the Young Professionals’ Board at WISE, campaigning for gender equity in STEM
Abigail Seager
careers.
Dr Anjana Khatwa is an acclaimed and award winning Earth Scientist, engagement specialist and TV Presenter. Anjana is a graduate of the BBC Expert Women Programme and has appeared as a regular expert contributor on many natural history programmes such as BBC Two’s Fossil Detectives, The History Channel’s How the Earth was made, ITV1’s Treasures of Britain and PBS’s Treasures of the Earth. She was a ‘super-contributor’ on BBC Four’s three-part series, Beach Live, where she was the show’s resident geologist expert, engaging audiences with her insight and knowledge about geology and fossils.
Dr Anjana Khatwa
STEM in the Media Dr Elsa Panciroli
Beth O’Leary is a freelance live sound engineer based in Sheffield, England. While studying for her degree in zoology, she got distracted working for the student union’s entertainment society and ended up in the music industry instead of wildlife conservation. Over the last ten years, she has done everything from pushing boxes in tiny clubs to touring arenas and spends a lot of her life in muddy fields working on most of the major festivals in the UK. She advocates for increased diversity in the technical side of live events through mentoring and blogging for Soundgirls.org. She has a particular passion for understanding how things work, travel, and good coffee.
Alex Morss
Dr Elsa Panciroli is a scientist and writer from Scotland. She is currently a researcher at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and associate researcher at National Museums Scotland, studying the evolutionary origins of mammals. Elsa is a keen science communicator, delivering public talks on palaeontology and evolutionary biology. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Palaeontology Online and Biological Sciences Review. She is a graduate of the BBC’s Expert Woman training programme, and frequently contributes to radio and podcast programmes, such as Crowdscience, The John Beatty Show and Our Lives. Her upcoming book, Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Bloomsbury Sigma), is publishing 10th June 2021.
Beth O'Leary These days I mostly write about, teach and do ecology, but I also do wider science and environmental writing and I am not one single thing. What I do is diverse - I think you have to diversity when you are a working class female striving to follow your own path and achieve important but often seemingly undervalued things [i.e. conservation and environmental journalism] in two of the least diverse industries where so many people seem to be living with appalling working conditions [zero hours, short contracts, unpaid, low paid]. And in my experience the industry’s attitude doesn’t get easier when you become a mum.
In conversation with Sally Nugent
Wednesday 24th March 6pm Sally Nugent is a presenter and broadcaster, she presents sport stories for BBC Breakfast. Last year Sally covered a series of high profile exclusive interviews including Marcus Rashford MBE about his quest to end child food poverty, for which the story won a RTS Scoop of the Year award, and covering Rob Burrow’s journey throughout his MND diagnosis. Starting her career at BBC Radio Merseyside, Sally has previously worked at BBC North West Tonight, BBC News and BBC Sportsday.
Building your Brand Building your Brand Building your Brand
Wednesday 24th March 7pm
Bee Anderson Bee (aka BeeIllustrates) is a 22-year-old illustrator and creative from Devon, currently in their final year studying a Ba(Hons) in Illustration at the University of Edinburgh.Bee has worked with a range of high profile, international clients, including Spotify, Refinery29, Shania Twain, STAEDTLER, SkyAtlantic and many more. Bee’s work has caught the attention of public figures such as Ariana Grande, Jameela Jamil and Grace Beverley, and has been featured in publications including Creative Boom, Time Out London, Visual Atelier 8, Polyester Zine and more. Bee is also a top 15 finalist for Unidays Student Woman of the Year 2020 (Winner TBA), and has been nominated as one of the University of Edinburgh’s most influential women of 2020.
@Beeillustrates
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Wednesday 24th March 7pm
Bethany Mannon Bethany Mannion is a student and an illustrator, based between Nottingham and Leicestershire. She created Spilt Milk Press in 2018, an online shop based on Etsy that stocks sticker packs and art prints.
@Splitmilkpress
Mel Hoare Melanie Hoare is the creative behind the brand Groovy Cat Garms. She learnt how to screen print in March 2020 as something to keep her occupied during lockdown, and then saw the opportunity and potential to build a brand. As working in hospitality was no longer a reliable option her energy was focussed into growing her small business - which has gone from selling 15 t shirts to now bringing in over 300 orders per month..
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Building your Brand Building your Brand Building your Brand Eva Malley
@EvaMalleyArt
"Hello! I'm Eva, Illustrator from Brighton UK. Drawing is my passion - it's how I've spent the last 22 years of my life, and I'm very lucky to say it became my full-time career in 2020. I've worked continuously for the past 2 years, dedicating my time and care into building the business I run today, shipping out orders worldwide! Everything is designed by me, ethically produced in the UK and shipped out by either myself or my parents from our home, in 100% recyclable and biodegradable packaging. Alongside this, I'm also a full-time Brighton University student, currently in my 2nd year studying BA Illustration. I love creating products that people feel excited about purchasing, and very passionate about creating art that is not only aesthetically pleasing but also accessible and affordable"
Wednesday
24th March 7pm
In Conversation with...
Beth Rigby Thursday 25th March 12:30pm
Beth is political editor, bringing you the latest news and analysis from Westminster. She has worked as a political journalist for nearly a decade, covering two general elections, the Scottish independence and EU referendums, and all the twists and turns of Brexit. Beth has interviewed the biggest names in British politics, from Theresa May to Tony Blair, as well as breaking exclusive stories around cabinet reshuffles, splits and the Brexit crisis. Before joining Sky, Beth worked as a newspaper journalist for nearly two decades at The Times and Financial Times, where she held a variety of positions including media editor, deputy political editor and consumer industries editor. A former financial journalist, she won awards for her work as the Financial Times' retail correspondent and hedge fund writer. She was also chair of the parliamentary lobby in 2015.
In Conversation with...
Julie Ritson Thursday 25th March, 6pm
Julie Ritson is a Picture Correspondent with 33 years of experience at the BBC. She joined the BBC in 1988 as an Assistant Film Editor, and began filming in 1993 with assignments to Bosnia and Northern Ireland. In 1999 she moved to the BBC’s Moscow Bureau where she covered wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan post 9/11 and was later embedded with British troops in Iraq during the 2003 invasion, and has subsequently done another 12 military embed assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011, Julie returned to her spiritual home of News, working on many of the biggest stories and events at both home and abroad. In 2018 she was promoted to the senior role of Picture Correspondent which involves more training, recruitment and the testing of new camera equipment alongside her regular filming and editing duties. Julie was born in the North East, bred in Scotland although her family travelled extensively with her father’s work, living for a time in Australia and South Korea. She’s a qualified Padi Divemaster and Nitrox Diver, a CAA qualified drone pilot and a lover of dogs and campervans.
PR and Marketing
26th March 1pm
n o t l o B a h t r Ma Martha is a self-taught event organiser, digital marketing strategist, radio host, artist manager and graphic designer with extensive experience in the music industry. Alongside her studies at the University of Manchester, Martha worked as Digital Marketing Manager for The Cause nightclub and launched several successful student event brands, including a fashion show. On graduating, Martha spent a year at major drum & bass record label Critical Music, before moving on to her current role as Digital Marketing Manager for UKF and Drum&BassArena. 18 months ago, Martha founded Not Bad For A Girl; a collective of female DJs that she continues to manage
r e l d n a h C e s Loui Louise is a Media communications specialist who works with organizations to create content and campaigns across multiple channels & platforms. Currently working with local authorities to create COVID-19 communications, Louise has also worked with BBC, HSBC, the Prince's Trust and Superdrug to name a few.
h a s n a u Q e r i Cla
Claire Quansah, head of client and business development at Social. Claire leads client and business development at integrated communications agency, Social, supporting the agency’s growth through research, content and campaigns. Her career spans more than 15 years of experience in PR and communications with global agencies Golin and Havas, having led corporate, B2B and B2C campaigns for brands including Greggs, Asda, St John Ambulance and Sodexo.
Freelance Panel friday 26th march 7pm
Bethany Dawson
Bethany Dawson is a freelance journalist focusing on news and features, with a focus on human ights and social affairs. She has bylines across a number of ublications including The Independent, The Times, the BBC, VICE, Refinery 29, Private Eye, and more. She splits her freelancing with University, as she'll be graduating in the summer of 2021 with a degree in Politics and Sociology.
Beth Kirkbride
Beth Kirkbride is a gold-standard NCTJaccredited freelance journalist who has worked with Cosmopolitan, Metro, The Telegraph and more. Her ma beats are entertainment, showbiz, tech, digital culture a lifestyle. Beth is also the founder and music editor of T Indiependent, a volunteer-led entertainment outlet and p magazine providing opportunities for early-career stag journalists, established in 2014.
Freelance Panel
Timi Sotire Timi Sotire is a freelance music journalist, with bylines in Refinery29, The Guardian, NME and others. With a specialism in profile writing, she has interviewed high-profile musicians including Dua Lipa and Jazmine Sullivan, as well as rising stars such as Bree Runway, Tiana Major9 and others. She is also a Marketer in the financial services, with a Level 6 Qualification in Professional Marketing. Timi's full portfolio can be accessed at: https://www.timisotire.com/
Friday 26th March 7pm
Radio Panel
Saturday 27th 11am
I am a radio reporter for BBC Newsbeat, providing the news for Radio 1, 1Xtra and Asian Network and I also write articles for the BBC News website. I have worked at the BBC for nearly five years and was offered a place on the Journalism Trainee Scheme after completing my Masters Degree in Broadcast Journalism. From there I spent two years working as a reporter for the Arts and Entertainment team before joining Newsbeat. My specialisms include entertainment and music reporting and I have a particular focus on underserved audiences, particularly working class women.
Annabelle Rackham
I'm the Assistant Producer for one of the UK's biggest commercial Breakfast Radio shows - KISS Breakfast with Jordan & Perri which launched in August 2020. Since graduating from Manchester University in 2018, I have also helped launch national DAB station Scala Radio in 2019 and have worked on Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp. As well as producing, I specialise in new music and present a monthly podcast called 'Discover Monthly' which focuses on the best new indie, pop and unsigned artists. I have contributed to the success of some major new artists over the last few years including Arlo Parks, L Devine and Thea.
Jodie Byrant
Radio Panel
Saturday 27th 11am
Whilst at the University of Manchester, I coChaired the Women in Media Conference 2019, and was Station Manager at Fuse FM (following a year working as Head of News). I was also a Youth Columnist for five years at my local newspaper in my hometown, and have work experience at Penguin Random House and the Mail on Sunday's 'YOU Magazine'. I have my own blog and podcast (@astepasideblog on Instagram)
Mia Edwards
Hannah O'Gorman is the Programme Director at STEAM Radio, a brand new Manchester radio station aiming to bring creatives together and provide a platform for local community projects and activist groups. Her background is in philosophy but she's been immersed in the Manchester music scene since her early teens and stumbled into uni radio as a way of showcasing the best of the weird and wonderful music being played in the city. Since then she has produced shows with a number of stations at home and further afield, become a gig promoter, and joined Rhythm Lab Records as the new Label Manager.
Hannah O'Gorman
Radio Panel
Saturday 27th 11am
Hannah currently works for BBC News as a studio manager/director working across Radio 4, 5 Live, World Service and the Asian Network. She has previously written for Broadway World
Hannah Montgomery
s e n e c S m e p h t 3 d h c n i r h a e M B h d t n a 27 n o ti c u d Pro Debbie Ramsay – Editor BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra Newsbeat I am a senior leader in BBC News running a team of journalists focus on original journalism for the BBC's flagship multi-platform youth outlets – Radio 1, 1Xtra and iPlayer aimed at 16-29 year-olds. Nurturing new talent is one of my passions so, as well as being a sponsor of the BBC’s Digital Journalism Apprenticeship scheme I mentor journalists internally and externally. I am an advisor to the Director General’s Senior Executive Group and the BBC News Group Board. Outside of work I sit on Prison Radio Association's Board of Trustees and I am a Mind Media Awards judge.
Sarah Smither is an award-winning Director of Photography with over 20 years experience in the industry. Following a fine arts degree from Oxford Brookes University, she moved to London to begin her TV career in the kitroom of a rental house where she stayed until going freelance in 2003. After working for 7 years in broadcast, Sarah moved to Bristol and began specialising in branded content, commercials and independent feature films. Sarah is passionate about encouraging more women into the camera department and educating film students about what a Director of Photography really does. @camerawomanDOP on Instagram
s e n e c S m e p h t 3 d h c n i r h a e M B h d t n a 27 n o ti c u d Pro Jo Ruxton is a passionate campaigner for the oceans she started the first marine programme for WWF in Hong Kong being a key advocate for the establishment of the first marine parks there. She was a lead member of the BBC’s diving team whilst producing and directing underwater sequences since the first days of filming on Blue Planet in 1997. Disappointed in the lack of conservation messages in the BBC films she worked on, she left to work independently and when she started to hear about the problem of plastic waste in the oceans, she produced the documentary feature, A Plastic Ocean, a multi-award-winning film that was released in 70 countries.
Who Are Plastic Oceans UK? Plastic Oceans UK have been experts on plastic pollution for a decade, starting with award-winning documentary A Plastic Ocean. It’s been named by Sir David Attenborough as “one of the most important films of our time” and has ignited mass consumer awareness. Now citizens have been engaged – it’s time to solve the crisis and change attitudes. Our programmes engage multiple audiences on the appropriate use and value of plastics, as we commit to long-lasting change.
Regional Broadcasting
Sunday 28th March 2pm
Regional Broadcasting
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Friday 19th
Friday 26th
3pm Fuse Muse
9am Breakfast with
4pm The Northwest
Ciara E
Emo Show
11am Mind if i Expoze 2pm Heard Immunity 6pm Undecided
Saturday 20th
Saturday 27th
1pm Bits and Bops
7pm The Cheek
9pm Red Wine Radio
8pm The Bloom Room
Sunday 21st
Sunday 28th
9am Lifestyle Rise
10am Tits for Tat with
9pm Between Rock
Pale Waves
and A Hard Place