What’s your intention for 2021?

By Alison Maitland,  11 January 2021  Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Have you managed to stick to it? If it’s already seeming like hard work, you’re not alone. Studies indicate that resolutions are often broken and that they’re an...

Racism and ‘allyship’

16 Nov 2020   By Alison Maitland ALONGSIDE the Covid-19 crisis, the police killing of George Floyd and the resurgence of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US and many other countries have been defining events of 2020. They have focused attention on the persistence...

Inclusion in the new era of work

13 Sept 2020     By Alison Maitland BY MOST ACCOUNTS, we are moving into a new era of work. For those who typically worked in an office, the Covid-19 crisis has tipped the balance decisively in favour of workplace flexibility. The knowledge workforce of the future...

Systemic inequities need radical responses

13 July 2020  By Alison Maitland The economic crisis caused by the global pandemic risks reinforcing inequalities around the world. What needs to be done to prevent this and to stop the pockets of progress of recent decades from being reversed? It is an urgent...

Diversity numbers are ‘not enough’

26 June 2020 INdivisible cited in Germany’s ada magazine INdivisible, which I co-wrote with Rebekah Steele, was featured in an article about diversity and inclusion by journalist Alexandra Borchardt in the German magazine ‘ada’, which focuses on the...