It is clear how ethnic disparities within the labour market are linked to other disparities in policy such as housing, and influenced by national crises such as the cost of living crisis. Issues within the labour market leads to wage disparity between minoritised communities and their White counterparts.
The Telling Stories event on 22nd November 2022, was a powerful, social and introspective conversation about the art of storytelling. I know this because I was there. It asked critical questions that were extremely thought-provoking about how the UnMuseum project (as it stands today with this name) will tell stories. But it was also a general conversation for storytellers in all modes and forms, as well as an educational one.
BSWN and Knowle West Media have partnered to contribute to Digital Cities Bristol 2018 - a week of free training, networking and events aimed at developing the skills of current and future content makers throughout the creative industries. The session was jointly curated in order to discuss the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This year, our colleagues at Babbasa celebrated a 5th Anniversary with the launch of an incredible campaign titled ‘Hear Our Stories’, that aims to inspire hope by sharing powerful stories of people often disadvantaged in society. In collaboration with the award-winning Plimsoll Productions, Watershed and The Festival of Ideas, Babbasa hosted a fantastic evening with a short film screening and a panel discussion.
On 5th December 2018, BSWN was delighted to be invited to the 3rd Anniversary event of Bristol & Bath Regional Capital (BBRC), whose ambition is to become a significant and commercially sustainable driving force in the development of the region, catalysing regional change through civic-led, commercially-focused and innovative investment.
On 7th November 2018, University of Bristol held its second Policymakers’ Question Time event, with an audience of policymakers and academics, aiming to create new connections and creating closer cooperation between research and policy.
Our director Sado Jirde contributed as a panelist at a 3-strong panel that ask questions of four speakers, whose diverse subject areas reflected the breadth and complexity of policymakers’ roles.
Diversity in business is proven to boost innovation, improve decision-making, drive productivity and increase profitability. Our director Sado Jirde, the founder of 91 Ways Kalpna Woolf, and Dr. Zainab Khan recently featured in an article by Bristol 24/7 discussing the importance and lack of BAME representation in business.
On Thursday 11th October, Jeremy Corbyn visited Bristol to express his commitment to adjust the history curriculum taught in schools to be broader and less Euro-centric. He further mentioned his party’s support for a new Emancipation Educational Trust to educate next generations about slavery, the fight for its abolition, and the role of the British Empire and colonisation.
