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

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

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

Recorded live on 1 September 2021 at 11am, this Dialogue & Debate webinar explores the power of sport for fostering social cohesion, and promoting values of inclusivity, mutual trust and respect.

This webinar was hosted by our Programme Officer, Emily Gow, who was joined by three guest panellists:

- Mark Bullock - Coach for Paralympic/disability sport

- Russ Jefferys - Head of Communications, parkrun

- Hamid Vaghefian - Head of Community Engagement, London Marathon Events; Trustee, the Running Charity and Young Harrow Foundation; Non-Executive Director at the Sport and Recreation Alliance.

This Dialogue & Debate webinar explores one of the key themes in our 2021 report, Faith & Belief 2040  the changing role and wider community use of religious buildings in the UK, in our increasingly multicultural, multifaith society. We have teamed up with the National Churches Trust, as part of their ongoing project, The House of Good, which is examining the economic and social value of the UK’s church buildings.

This webinar is hosted by our Chief Executive, Dr Edmund Newell.

In this webinar, we discuss how communities might need to adjust in face of the challenges that COVID-19 has presented, including: increased unemployment; heightened social anxiety; ethnic, gender and geographical inequalities that have been exposed during the pandemic; and economic insecurity for many small charities, businesses and social services.

This webinar is hosted by our Chief Executive, Dr Edmund Newell.

Our guest panellists include:

- Jo Broadwood - CEO of Belong – The Cohesion and Integration Network

- Dr Magda Brokowska - Senior Research Officer, University of Essex; Co-author of Coming Together or Coming Apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England (2021)

- Professor David Halpern - Director, the Behavioural Insights Team

This Dialogue & Debate webinar explores climate resilience and adaptation. Featuring an intergenerational panel, we explore how people in the UK can adapt to climate change in ways that foster social cohesion rather than division across nations and within communities.

We ask: if climate change is likely to exacerbate social division, what opportunities can we seize to minimise this?

This Dialogue & Debate webinar explores the social cohesion implications of declining public trust in government, the media and between communities. We discuss different options for restoring public confidence as we aim to ‘Build Back Better’, post-pandemic.

It takes the form of a candid conversation with guest panellists and live questions from our online audience. It is hosted by our Chief Executive, Dr Ed Newell.

Ahead of International Women’s Day 2021, this Dialogue & Debate webinar, streamed live at 11.00am on Wednesday 3 March 2021, explores what we can learn from women's COVID-19 pandemic experiences, to support greater inclusion and equal opportunity in the future.

With the Brexit withdrawal process now complete, the UK’s ties to the European Union have been severed. What will happen next?

In this webinar, we will discuss the possible implications of Brexit, particularly in terms of our sense of identity, and relationships between the UK and other countries and within its our four nations. What will be the opportunities to embrace and the challenges to overcome?

This webinar is presented by our Chief Executive, Dr Ed Newell.