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Charlton v Homophobia Football Tournament

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A great day was had at the Valley yesterday for the Charlton v Homophobia football tournament. The event was a collaboration between Proud Valiants, Charlton Athletic fans who identify themselves as part of the LGBT community, Bexley Invicta, a local gay friendly football club and the university’s LGBT+ network.

The university team was made of a variety of different staff members, students and others associated with the university. A good crowd attended to watch with Greenwich fans definately the loudest!

The matches were excellent, very competitive and evenly matched, and despite very little practice and a very hot morning the Greenwich were the winners having beaten Bexley Invicta and drawn with Charlton (Proud Valiants).

Huge congratulations goes to all involved and we look forward to next year.

 

The pioneering women of the BBC’s early years

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_88759664_pictureshowscleanersleavingthebbc011032The BBC has announced that it aims to get more women into positions of authority by 2020, but what was the situation in the early years of the organisation? Dr Kate Murphy has been researching the era for a new book.

The 1920s were a time of great contrasts for working women. On the one hand the vote had been won in 1918 (for those aged over 30) and the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 had removed most barriers to the professions. More

Does my face fit? Exploring the experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic academics and professionals in higher education

On By In Ethnicity, Race, Uncategorised

This symposium organised by Professor Tracey Reynolds considered the experiences of BME academics, the extent to which they are being valued in the higher education sector, and their progression to more senior positions in the profession.

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Tracey Reynolds

 

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The Keynote Speaker was Dr Gurnam Singh. Principal Lecturer, University of Coventry.  

Other  speakers included:

Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu, UCL; Professor Tracey Reynolds; University of Greenwich; Dr Edward Phillips, University of Greenwich; Dr. Geraldine Brown; University of Coventry; Dr Nicola Rollock, University of Birmingham; Equality Diversity and Inclusion Champions, University of Greenwich; Dr Akile Ahmet, LSE

The symposium was opened by Judith Burnett.

BME Symposium 28.4.16

Here is Dr Nicola Rollock from the University of Birmingham talking about barriers to progression.

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Inspiring and Encouraging BME Student Transition to Graduate Employment

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A one day symposium was held on 22 April at our Medway Campus entitled Inspiring and Encouraging BME Student Transition to Graduate Employment.

The event aimed to enable students to hearing inspiring, informative and encouraging stories of career development from BME role models and to provide a forum for discussion of BME employability issues.

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The morning session speakers included:

Trevor R Hall CBE – Executive Vice Chair Windsor Fellowship

Richard Mendez – Head of Employability and Careers Services at the University

Daniel Robinson – Manager of the Reed-ncfe job brokerage and employability support initiative

Ria Popat – Prize Winning Alumnus

Roisin Dunne – Students’ Union Vice President (Education)

Satya Shah – Senior Lecturer in Project and Programme Management

The afternoon involved a round table discussion and workshops involving the speakers and audience which explored the challenges and programme of action.

Women and Water

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Women and Water

From carrying coal to transporting tourists, the canals of the North have taken a variety of loads, but a new narrowboat is bringing something unusual to the waterways – a women-only arts centre.

The Idle Women project, aimed at addressing “the urgent need for women’s space” and providing “a radical redress of power, acknowledgement and voice”, has been put together by caretakers Rachel Anderson and Cis O’Boyle.

It centres around the Selina Cooper, a renovated butty with both a living area and an arts space which will travel the canals for the next two years, giving women a chance to “take off armour and just relax and breathe a little”, Anderson says.  More

BAME Cadet Receives Sword of Honour

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BAME Top Soldier

A top-performing officer cadet at Sandhurst has thanked the Army for putting him on the right track.

Officer cadet Kidane Cousland, who grew up on a housing estate in Tottenham, says had he not signed up as a 16-year-old he would be dead or in prison.

Now 24, he served in Afghanistan in 2011 with 29 Commando, Royal Artillery.

He is among only a handful of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) cadets to be awarded the “sword of honour” for coming top of his intake.  More

Shared Parental Leave

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Fathers are not taking advantage of rules that allow them to share leave with their partners, according to research published a year after the rights came into force.

Shared parental leave (SPL) was introduced on 5 April 2015 to give parents more choice and flexibility in caring for their children during the first 12 months after their birth. Parents can split 52 weeks’ leave, receiving some payment for 39 of those weeks. That is on top of the two weeks’ statutory paternity leave available to fathers.  More