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andysmarshall
Jun 3, 20242 min read
Neurodiversity And The Baked-In Barriers
It seems like a lifetime ago – the 1990’s. I was a secondary school teacher and getting very uneasy about what I saw happening in...
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andysmarshall
Apr 22, 20243 min read
Unconscious Bias – The Baby and the Bathwater
Unconscious Bias training seems to have been unceremoniously dumped across many government and civil service departments. “Oh, you’re...
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andysmarshall
Mar 26, 20241 min read
HOW DO WE DEFEND EDI?
Decades of work on lowering barriers for people who face discrimination and exclusion in the workplace and society is under attack. I’ve...
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andysmarshall
Mar 25, 20241 min read
SO, WHAT HAS EDI ACHIEVED?
I’ll consider what EDI has achieved in workplaces in a future post but first, let’s take a look at society as a whole. I have put...
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andysmarshall
Mar 24, 20242 min read
EDI - WHY IS PROGRESS SO SLOW?
Here, I need to uncover my Marxist roots. Please don’t switch off! Some of these ways of understanding the world and society are vital in...
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andysmarshall
Mar 23, 20242 min read
WHAT HAS EDI ACHIEVED FOR OUR WORKPLACES?
When I began researching this, I was even more shocked than I thought I might be. Really? After 30 years of EDI effort and...
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andysmarshall
Mar 22, 20242 min read
WHAT AM I DOING TO DEFEND EDI?
I’m anxious that no one feels patronised or undermined here. There are many brilliant, committed people working in EDI but, to return to...
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andysmarshall
Mar 21, 20242 min read
WHY WE NEED TO BROADEN ‘DIVERSITY’
To really understand Inclusion, we need to blow open the common conception of Diversity: “Oh yes, Diversity, that’s about race, sex, age,...
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andysmarshall
Mar 19, 20242 min read
WHY WE NEED TO SHIFT POWER
There is an approach I use in my work offered by Catalyst, in their report ‘Getting Real About Inclusive Leadership’. It proposes the...
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andysmarshall
Mar 2, 20242 min read
BURSTING BUBBLES
Ever had one of those moments when you’re confronted with the reality you are only a tiny part of a massive picture, but that you’d come...
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andysmarshall
Aug 30, 20234 min read
Lessons from a lifetime of allyship
On 14th October 2022 I went to Tony Paris’ funeral in Butetown, Cardiff. It was a powerful experience that has played in my thinking and...
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