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Our blog provides analysis, commentary, and actionable strategies to help individuals and organisations create fairer, more inclusive environments.
Expert Contributions
At Diversity Scotland, we believe in the power of lived experience, critical thinking, and collaborative dialogue. Our blog is a platform for challenging perspectives, sharing bold ideas, and driving equity-focused change in the workplace and beyond.
We regularly feature contributions from practitioners, researchers, creatives, and community voices exploring topics such as
- Equity, inclusion, and justice in policy and practice.
- Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and anti-racism.
- Accessibility and disability rights, mental health, trauma awareness, and workplace wellbeing.
- Intersectional lived experiences from underrepresented groups
We welcome guest contributors who can offer insight, reflection, or evidence-based commentary. If you have a story, strategy, or perspective to share, we’d love to hear from you.
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Latest Articles
Inclusive Hiring Matters – Especially Now
Let’s build the kind of hiring systems that reflect the kind of world we want to live in.
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When Binary Law Meets Cultural Identity: The Hidden Discrimination Risk in the UK’s Approach to Sex and Gender
Rigid binary definitions of sex and gender in UK law risk disproportionately impacting people from ethnically minoritised backgrounds...
Is AI Quietly Rewriting Old Agendas? The Risk of Digital Inequality and Tech-Driven Eugenics
Artificial intelligence is reshaping society, but is it also reinforcing inequality? Explore how AI, bias, and tech-driven pronatalism...
Why Trans rights are also data rights: Privacy, dignity and the impact of the Supreme Court ruling
The UK Supreme Court ruling on sex and the Equality Act raises critical concerns about data protection, privacy, and the rights of trans…
Official Statement from Diversity Scotland: the UK Supreme Court ruling on 16th April 2025 regarding the legal definition of a ‘woman’.
Diversity Scotland responds to the UK Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the legal definition of sex under the Equality Act. Our statement out
UK Supreme Court Ruling on the Legal Definition of 'Woman': What Does It Mean for Inclusion?
The landmark UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of 'woman' could significantly impact inclusion policies. Diversity Scotland explores
Diversity Scotland partners with new charity Sidh Chailleann Art
Diversity Scotland is proud to be collaborating with new Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation Sidh Chailleann Art to facilitate...
World Humanist Day 2022
Our Founder Tony has been speaking with fellow Diversity Scotland colleague Alexis McKenzie about her work as a Humanist Celebrant
Pretty rainbow logos could just be paying lip service
In an article published in today's The Scotsman newspaper, Diversity Scotland's Founder Tony McCaffery considers whether the increase in...
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
This year for #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek we chatted with a neurodivergent academic about his lived experience of autism.
Is Scotland inclusive?
This week Tony took part in a panel talk for Scottish International Week which was organised by Scottish Business Network during COP26.
Stephen Lawrence Day 2021
Today is Stephen Lawrence Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the life of Stephen Lawrence who was murdered in an unprovoked, racist...
Derek Chauvin guilty on all 3 counts
The 12 members of the Minneapolis Jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin have unanimously found him to be guilty of the murder of George Floyd..
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Considering what may be on the minds of your employees? (March 2021)
The last couple of weeks have seen us face some of the most unfathomable, unacceptable and tragic events in recent times. As a business...
Inclusion at Christmas
As the festive holiday season rolls around again, so will accusations of politically correct rules waging war on Christmas...
10th Anniversary of the Equality Act 2010
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Equality Act coming into law. When it came into force on 1st October 2010 it brought together 116...
Workforce Strategy Survey 2020 - Findings
The teams at Diversity Scotland and Includes You worked in collaboration to better understand how organisations in the UK operated during...
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
What acts of Kindness did Tony and Gail Porter get up to this week?
Gender Pay Gap Reporting may not seem like a priority right now but...
Given that the UK Government has suspended the 2020 Gender Pay Gap Reporting deadline because it recognises that your HR teams are facing...
Coronavirus exposes inequality
As more and more precautionary measures are implemented by governments and employer organisations to contain and delay the spread of the...
Are attitudes towards Working From Home about to change?
With the Coronavirus outbreak forcing employers to consider our shared responsibility to minimise the risk of exposure and protect our...
DON'T CALL ME BAME!
According to recent data, more than 7.6 million people in the UK come under the category of BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic)...
Missing the EU Already?
On 23rd January 2013, then United Kingdom (UK) prime minister, David Cameron, said he wanted to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the..
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