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Zena Martin wrote a new post, Five top tips for setting up your own PR agency 6 months, 1 week ago
We are extremely excited about our very popular, November Networking Evening, which will take place on Thursday, 17 November! Our keynote speakers, Belinda Lawson, Co-founder of Lawson Dodd, and Jon Bennett, […]
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Zena Martin wrote a new blog post: A Vortex of Privilege 1 year, 1 month ago
Yesterday, British Prime Minster, David Cameron, berated his alma mater, Oxford University, for the fact that “only one black student attended the university last year”. It turns out that he was wrong, and Oxford was quick to correct him, In fact, one undergrad from the UK was black; but 41 (I have also seen a source quoting 27) [...] -
Zena Martin wrote a new blog post: The Elitist Vortex 1 year, 5 months ago
This month has seen a fair amount of media coverage on the fact that David Lammy MP has discovered more than twenty Oxbridge colleges made no undergraduate offers to black students, last year. There are many reasons why I find this statistic disappointing – although not necessarily surprising. However, what it has really made me [...]
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Zena Martin wrote a new blog post: An Invitation to Make Tangible Progress 1 year, 9 months ago
The CIPR has just announced its new Diversity Working Group http://bit.ly/bXMF6s , which will “ concentrate primarily on addressing the major diversity challenges facing the PR profession, particularly the under-representation of people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds at all levels, the gender glass ceiling, and discrimination…[Read more]
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Zena Martin wrote a new blog post: Best Companies for Diversity in the UK? 1 year, 10 months ago
For several years, in the United States, Diversity Inc and Black Enterprise Magazines have published their Top 50 and Top 40 (respectively) Companies for Diversity league tables. http://www.diversityinc.com/pages/DI_50.shtml?id=7617 and http://www.blackenterprise.com/diversity/diversity-list-2009-companies/ . The criteria are high and the process…[Read more]
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Zena Martin wrote a new blog post: Royal Television Society Panel Debate: Diversity in Broadcasting 1 year, 11 months ago
The event began with an introduction about the RTS community, given by the President of the RTS, and was followed by a video showing a host of famous and non-famous ethnically-diverse faces of Britain. This video was accompanied by musicians Black Eyed Peas’ ‘I Gotta Feeling’ which I thought worked really well. Among the famous [...]
