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In this special BDAS episode we explored leadership, identity, and lived experience within the health and care sectors through the lens of the panel’s extensive expertise. It brought together voices from creative practice, policy, community leadership, and lived experience. Looking into how they intersect to shape more inclusive and equitable systems of care. Host Corine Walker, a Bristol-based wr...

In this episode of the Bristol Distinguished Address Series, an expert-led panel discussion explored how the South West could become a leader in innovation, sustainability, and economic growth through space-enabled technologies, bringing together perspectives from academia, industry, and regional initiatives to highlighted opportunities for collaboration and future development. Hosted by Rebecca H...

To mark Ada Lovelace Day 2025, UWE Bristol is celebrating Women in Tech Week - a programme of events and resources designed to celebrate, challenge and change the narrative around gender equity in technology. The initiative began with a simple question: What would it take to make tech feel like a place where women belong, thrive and lead? The answer is a week that combines visibility, allyship, pr...

In this episode we speak with three entrepreneurs and our focus is on innovation in health technology. We are joined by Professor Matt Freeman, who is the Centre Director at Future Space, which is an innovation centre that has become the gold standard for university-industry collaboration. Future_ Space at UWE Bristol is a multi-award-winning innovation centre designed for pioneering high-tech hig...

In Episode 9 part two, we continue the conversation with Shehzaad to consider how relationships between HQs and subsidiaries are influenced by the dialogue between East and West in terms of ideas about inclusive leadership, how the word for leader in Bengali is understood and his practical tips about how to help inclusive leadership to be successfully transplanted into different contexts.

In Episode 9 part one, Shehzaad Sams, CEO and Founder of Rononiti talks about his experiences of consulting with organisations globally. He reflects upon some of the colonial assumptions of a Westernised approach to EDI and how practices can become much broader and attuned to a local context.

Episode 2: A conversation with marketing and communications professionals from financial institutions on how inclusive messaging is developed, the challenges involved and examples of good practice.

Episode 3: Exploring how designing financial services for accessibility and inclusion from the ground up creates better experiences for everyone, not just those with specific needs.

In episode 10 we hear from founder and CEO of Oak Agility; Kwasi Owusu- Asomaning who introduces us to his multicultural and multilingual working context as an executive coach. He shares some thoughts on creating inclusive 'we' spaces, the relationships between HQs and subsidiary businesses and some practical takeaways around his own reflexive learning and approaches to EDI.

In episode 11 we speak with Donna Ladkin who is Professor of Inclusive Leadership at the University of Birmingham Business School. We discuss her new book, ' Challenging Colonizing Logics in Management Research: Towards a Broader View of Management'. We take a journey through her own experiences and practices to consider how we can reorientate ourselves to the world through a connecting consciousn...

In Episode 8 part two, Marguerite Weber continues to reflect upon how her own cultural background and identity influences her EDI and leadership practices and whether the concept of inclusive leadership can be translatable.

In Episode 8 part one, Marguerite Weber of Weber Michel Associates talks about her experiences in the banking sector as an executive recruiter. She considers how things have changed over the last 40 years and how in setting up her own company she resolved to do things differently.

Episode 1: An in-depth look into the barriers underserved entrepreneurs face in accessing financial services. Aimed at surfacing unseen challenges and lived experiences, with representation from entrepreneurs and financial institutions. Topics: Personal financial history, credit access, banking assumptions, gender bias in funding. Theme: How systemic design leaves people out — and what’s lost beca...

In Episode 7 part two we continue the conversation with Fernando to consider how inclusive leadership translates and to consider how leaders can navigate this process across different contextual and linguistic contexts.

In Episode 7 part one we talk to Fernando who is a leader in a Spanish University and consider his experiences of working in a multinational University when educating students in different languages and also consider the implications for EDI in this context.

In this latest episode, we are joined by Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Mechatronics at UWE Bristol. From pioneering low-cost prosthetic legs to developing AI-driven assistive devices, Appolinaire is reshaping how technology intersects with healthcare and his vision to create a centre that uses AI, 3D scanning and printing to tailor affordable prosthetics in real time is...

In this special collaboration with Bristol’s 2025 Festival of Nature on the theme of ‘Water’, we heard from an expert panel about rivers as the ancient ‘gut health’ of our planet. They explored the crucial role of rivers in the carbon cycle and our ecosystem, the research work and citizen science that is being carried out to learn more about them, the campaigns to keep our waters clean - and what...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Two seemingly unrelated organisations are finding innovative ways to support youth in vulnerable situations, and promote community safety. Watch and listen again to this very pertinent BDAS event, where we heard from a youth boxing therapy charity from Bristol and an office for violence prevention from Edmonton, Canada – both working to reduce v...

In episode 1 we discuss why it’s important to study EDI across different language contexts and how we began the research process.

In episode 6 we reflect upon the ways in which we are disseminating the research and how we worked with our advisory panel.

In episode 5 we consider whether the idea of inclusive leadership travels and translates across different languages and cultures.

In episode 4 we talk about the differences between working in a UK quartered head office and an Italian host site.

In episode 3 we discuss the challenges of working across different languages; the differences we noticed and the translation decisions we made (this episode is in two parts).

In episode 3 we discuss the challenges of working across different languages; the differences we noticed and the translation decisions we made (this episode is in two parts).

In episode 2 we talk about the research methods of interviewing and photo elicitation and consider the role of language translation during data collection and analysis (this episode is in two parts).