Day: October 20, 2016

Oct 20
BBC Sets Diversity Targets

In the BBC’s newly released ‘Content Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines’, it sets targets for 2017 and 2020 for the make-up of both its workforce and on-screen portrayal. Specifically, it has set an 8 per cent target for 2020 for the LGBT+ community. In terms of the workforce, this target is inclusive of all staff […]

Oct 20
Having the Chat: Dean Buckley

Hi Dean, thanks for talking to us! Firstly, tell our readers about yourself. At the moment, I am currently a first-year student at University of Auckland studying psychology. I am profoundly deaf from birth and was taught to communicate in New Zealand Sign Language and written English. So what drew me to your story was […]