{"id":18,"date":"2018-01-26T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/?p=18"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:17:43","slug":"rt-hon-david-lammy-mp-launches-2018-equity-speaker-series-at-uwe-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/rt-hon-david-lammy-mp-launches-2018-equity-speaker-series-at-uwe-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Rt Hon David Lammy MP launches 2018 Equity Speaker Series at UWE Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rt Hon David Lammy MP, author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/643001\/lammy-review-final-report.pdf\">Lammy Review<\/a> launched the 2018 Equity Speaker Series on Wednesday 24 January at the UWE Bristol Exhibition and Conference Centre. Lammy, who is an popular campaigner and outspoken social and political commentator, spoke on the topic of \u00a0\u2018The Confidence to Be: What next for the BAME graduate?\u2019 Following the talk, 200 delegates enjoyed networking and a Caribbean inspired canape reception courtesy of Calypso Kitchen restaurant ,\u00a0the brain child of UWE Bristol Alumnus Will Clarke.\u00a0 A number of pro-diversity organisations were also in attendance as exhibitors to promote opportunities to BAME students.<\/p>\n<h2>About UWE Bristol\u2019s Equity Programme<\/h2>\n<p>Equity is an innovative positive-action talent and professional development programme for home-BAME students at UWE Bristol.\u00a0 It was launched in FBL at the University\u2019s annual Link event in October 2017 which attracted approximately 300 students and professionals. \u00a0Its principal objectives are the improvement of graduate outcomes specifically in terms of increasing professional employment and self-employment rates as well as supporting them to aim for careers which offer promising earning potential.\u00a0 Equity days take place once a month and include race and identity coaching and workshops entirely facilitated by external BAME professionals and entrepreneurs. Each Equity day concludes with a keynote speaker that reflects the best of British BAME talent.\u00a0 (Equity Curator Dr Zainab Khan and Race Equality Programmes Officer Alex Mormoris are both based within FBL, any queries should be addressed to <a href=\"mailto:raceequality@uwe.ac.uk\">raceequality@uwe.ac.uk<\/a> you can also follow the programme on Twitter @Bristol_Equity )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rt Hon David Lammy MP, author of the Lammy Review launched the 2018 Equity Speaker Series on Wednesday 24 January at the UWE Bristol Exhibition and Conference Centre. Lammy, who is an popular campaigner and outspoken social and political commentator, spoke on the topic of \u00a0\u2018The Confidence to Be: What next for the BAME graduate?\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/rt-hon-david-lammy-mp-launches-2018-equity-speaker-series-at-uwe-bristol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rt Hon David Lammy MP launches 2018 Equity Speaker Series at UWE Bristol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,11,4,8,9,5,3,7,2],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bame","tag-bristol-business-and-law-school","tag-david-lammy","tag-equity","tag-equity-speaker-series","tag-fbl","tag-race-equality","tag-the-link","tag-uwe-bristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}