Streamed live on Wednesday 6 October 2021, we explore educational inequalities in the UK and what this summer’s grade inflation reveals about inequalities within our education system, across private and state schools.

We were joined by guest panellists:
Professor Barnaby Lenon CBE - Chair, Independent Schools' Council
Kim Rihal - Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships, Equal Education
Josiah Senu - Deputy Chair, Sutton Trust Alumni Leadership Board

Schooling & Inequality - with Prof Barnaby Lenon, Kim Rihal and Josiah Senu

Streamed live on 3 November 2021, we explore ways of addressing the practice of ‘tokenism’, to achieve more meaningful diversity and inclusion, in the media, politics and the workplace.

Our guest panellists are:
- Dr Jason Arday – Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Durham University 
- Dr Dayo Eseonu – Principal Researcher, The Young Foundation; Trustee, Involve
- Tamanna Miah – Campaigner, media spokesperson and Champion for the Young Trustees Movement
- Rachael Wilson – Managing Director, EW Group

Beyond Tokenism, with Dr Jason Arday, Dr Dayo Eseonu, Tamanna Miah & Rachael Wilson

This podcast takes place to celebrate International Women's Day 2022 on 8 March with the campaign theme: #BreaktheBias. 

This webinar has been curated by Cumberland Lodge Fellows, Adenike Adewuni, Dareen Assaf, Martha Beard, Chandni Patel and Hannah Phillips.

The discussion will be hosted by Cumberland Lodge Fellow, Dareen Assaf. Dareen's research explores female leadership in higher education, in an effort to understand barriers that obstruct female academics from progressing in their careers, and to understand the enablers that have helped those who hold successful executive leadership roles.

Our guest panellists include:

Detective Superintendent Paula Bickerdike - West Yorkshire Police
Simon Gallow - Advocate and HeForShe Lead at UN Women UK
Preet Kaur Gill MP - Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Edgbaston; Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development
Dr Alexandra Ramadan - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford

Women In Leadership #BreakTheBias

Dialogue & Debate is a series of monthly webinars broadcast in the first week of each month from Cumberland Lodge, featuring guest speakers drawn from public life. Wherever possible, our webinars are broadcast live, with the chance for the online audience to interact live with guests in our studio, through polls and questions.

Founded in 1947, Cumberland Lodge is a charity that empowers people, through dialogue and debate, to tackle the causes and effects of social division. We promote progress towards more peaceful, open and inclusive societies. 

Find out more about our programmes at cumberlandlodge.ac.uk

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