{"id":1400,"date":"2018-05-22T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T08:49:13","slug":"dr-zainab-khan-wins-at-the-bristol-diversity-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/dr-zainab-khan-wins-at-the-bristol-diversity-awards-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Zainab Khan wins at the Bristol Diversity Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Zainab Khan picked up the award for Positive Role Model (Race \/ Ethnicity) at the 2nd Bristol Diversity Awards event on Saturday 18th May at the Mercure Holland Hotel & Spa.<\/p>\n

Zainab was nominated for her work on the UWE Bristol Equity Programme.<\/p>\n

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Equity is a\u00a0positive-action talent development programme aiming to improve BAME\u00a0graduate\u00a0outcomes\u00a0\u00a0through\u00a0identity coaching,\u00a0enterprise education and large networking events.<\/p>\n

It marks a major departure from traditional diversity\u00a0practice in\u00a0Higher Education, and has received\u00a0\u00a0positive reception from external observers and city commentators for its innovation. You can find out more about the\u00a0Equity Programme\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prior to the event Zainab was interviewed for ITV’s local news <\/a>to discuss the upcoming awards<\/p>\n

Attending the awards\u00a0were Equity student committee members, Donna Whitehead (Executive Dean & Pro Vice Chancellor), Dr Harriet Shortt (Associate Professor Bristol Business School), Mena Fombo (Motivational Speaker and Equity Programme Coach) and Alex Mormoris, former colleague and key\u00a0member of the Equity Programme staff.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Zainab and the Equity team on this impressive achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Zainab Khan picked up the award for Positive Role Model (Race \/ Ethnicity) at the 2nd Bristol Diversity Awards event on Saturday 18th May at the Mercure Holland Hotel & Spa. Zainab was nominated for her work on the UWE Bristol Equity Programme. Equity is a\u00a0positive-action talent development programme aiming to improve BAME\u00a0graduate\u00a0outcomes\u00a0\u00a0through\u00a0identity coaching,\u00a0enterprise … Continue reading “Dr Zainab Khan wins at the Bristol Diversity Awards 2018”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,256],"tags":[25,27,281,283,56,73,183,209,210,282],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-business-school","category-bristol-law-school","category-event","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-business-school","tag-bristol-diversity-awards","tag-bristol-equity","tag-donna-whitehead","tag-events","tag-students","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-zainab-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/bristol-business-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}