Biography
Dianah is the Adviser on diversity for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She directs the Institute's diversity research programme and leads the development of good practice guidance on diversity to help employers make progress in this challenging and complex field. She also leads the Institute's public policy work on diversity.
She serves on national level advisory boards in connection with research and the promotion of good diversity practice and, among others, has worked with Joseph Rowntree, UMIST, Sheffield Hallam, the European Business Network for Social Cohesion, the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), and various university research centres such as CROW, NIACE and CAWA.
Dianah was a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Age sponsored by the DTI and a member of the DWP Age Partnership Group. She was also a member of the Advisory Board set up at the end of 2003 by the Commission for Race Equality to revise the Code of Practice on the Race Relations Act. She is currently on various government advisory boards and steering committees such as those dealing with the development of a gender equality indicator, the review of age legislation, approaches to addressing the ageing UK population and workforce, and the rehabilitation of ex-offenders through work.
Previous public appointments include membership of:
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the Home Office Core Advisory Group set up to review the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
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the EOC Advisory group on equal pay
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the National Advisory Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities (NACEPD), which preceded the National Disability Council (NDC), and the DRC. In particular Dianah has driven the Institute's position on managing diversity and specific initiatives on age, disability, equal pay, harassment and bullying, as well as race, work–life balance and employing people with criminal records.
Her current agenda includes ground-breaking research on managing diversity and the business case, some of which has already been published in a variety of CIPD guides and reports designed to raise awareness about diversity, stimulate thinking about sensible changes in employers’ approaches to the employment and development of people at work and support good practice which is both fair and makes business sense.
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