Amanda Rice
Head of Diversity, BBC
Blog posts in total 7
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Moving in the right direction
Amanda Rice introduces the Diversifying Our Workforce: Employee Equality Information 2013 on the BBC's diversity website.
The BBC's commitment to developing opportunities for women
The representation of women across political, professional and business life has been widely debated in the past few months. For broadcasting too, there has been much focus on the role of women both on and off-screen, most recently on the number of expert women used on TV and radio in a campai...
A snapshot of age portrayal in the industry
When the BBC took over the chair of the Creative Diversity Network (CDN) in 2011 we made a firm commitment to investigate audiences' attitudes to Age in the media. Our partners in the CDN were enthusiastic and supportive of a cross-media approach and worked closely with us to ensure we delivered...
Everyone has a story - the BBC's new diversity strategy
Today we're publishing the BBC Diversity Strategy for 2011-15, outlining our commitment to diversity in the programmes we make and the people we work with. We are also publishing the research and consultation that have helped shape this strategy and perhaps most importantly, the action plans divi...
BBC Chairs Cultural Diversity Network
This week is an eventful one in the calendar of the BBC Diversity team and I wanted to take a moment to share some updates and information with you. Tonight we hold our official launch event to mark the BBC's takeover as Chair of the Cultural Diversity Network (CDN), an association of Britain's...
BBC Diversity Consultation opens today
Today the BBC opens a consultation to ask for your views about our ongoing diversity work. As a body funded by licence fee payers, the BBC is continually finding ways to talk to and involve the widest possible range of audiences including under-served communities. Asking people to tell us how w...
The BBC's award-winning diversity
As a public sector broadcaster, reflecting the differences within as well as between the UK's diverse communities, nations and regions in all our output is part of what we are here to do. It's nice to know that when we do that well - when we seek to really understand and connect with differen...
