Past HR Network Conference
10 June 2021
About this event
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) has never just been about policies, programmes and headcount. It is also about culture, leadership, business strategy and co-production. This conference will build on the D&I focus which both the pandemic and Black Lives Matter have prompted by bringing together speakers and delegates who want D&I to become part of the fabric of organisational life.
As employers regain some ‘bandwidth’ to focus on their post-pandemic priorities, many recognise that they have an opportunity to do more than just polish up their D&I ‘credentials’ and to accelerate many of the initiatives they were already working on and to tackle others which have now become more urgent. At IES we are hearing this message from many of our employer contacts, network members and clients and this conference is an opportunity to hear from practitioners and people with lived experience about what is new in D&I and the future challenges we all need to confront to ‘move the dial’ on D&I decisively.
Event resources
Event recording:
Summary blog:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace: reflections from the IES conference
Zofia Bajorek summarises the recent IES annual conference on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an employee lifecycle perspective.
Slides:
An Inclusive Future for Work
Liz Sayce OBE, Visiting Senior Fellow, International Inequalities Institute
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Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
Wendy Cartwright, former HR Director, Olympic Delivery Authority
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Diversity of Thought
Barry Bofffy, Head of Inclusion & Diversity, British Transport Police
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Obesity at work: Challenging the last ‘acceptable’ form of discrimination
Jacqueline Bowman, EU Policy Lead for the Study of Obesity
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Video interview: Keeping inclusion at the top of the management agenda and the benefits of ‘co-production’ in the design in inclusivity initiatives.
Stephanie Hutchings, Strategic People Consultant and Disability Inclusion Specialist, London Borough of Hounslow
Video interview: Beyond Gender Pay Gap reporting: the case for monitoring disability and ethnicity too
Duncan Brown, IES Principal Associate
Topics covered at this conference included:
- Post pandemic strategic priorities for diversity & inclusion
- Diversity of thought
- Co-producing diversity and inclusion – a lived experience perspective
- Making the case for D&I to the Board
Chair:
Stephen Bevan, IES Head of HR Research Development
Speakers:
Liz Sayce OBE, Visiting Senior Fellow, International Inequalities Institute
Wendy Cartwright, former HR Director, Olympic Delivery Authority
Barry Bofffy, Head of Inclusion & Diversity, British Transport Police
Jacqueline Bowman, EU Policy Lead for the Study of Obesity
Stephanie Hutchings, Strategic People Consultant and Disability Inclusion Specialist, London Borough of Hounslow
Dr Duncan Brown, IES Principal Associate