Marcus Ryder secures new role at Lenny Henry Centre for media diversity
DIVERSITY CHAMPION: Marcus Ryder MBE has worked in the UK media industry for 25 years
LEADING MEDIA diversity champion Marcus Ryder MBE has secured a new role at Birmingham City University to examine representation across UK media.
Mr Ryder has been officially named as Head of External Consultancies at the centre based in Birmingham City University and will look into diversity across the industry including in journalism, acting, film, TV and radio in both front-of-house and behind the scenes roles.
The new role will see him work alongside esteemed academics and industry leaders to explore how the UK’s media reflects its population and to be proactive in championing better representation across all sectors.
Exeter University has had more reports of sexual harassment and assault than any other university in the country, according to Everyone’s Invited.
New data shared by the group with ITV shows that in just one week, over 1,000 students submitted anonymous reports of their experiences of sexual violence, assault and harassment.
Across 1,035 reports, 86 UK universities were named. Exeter had the highest amount of reports, with 65 testimonies. The university told The Tab student wellbeing is its “primary concern” and it is committed to tackling misogyny and violence against women.
Other universities with high numbers of reports of sexual assault and harassment include Oxford, with 57, and Edinburgh and Leeds, with 53 each.
Oxford and Exeter universities are at the top of a rape culture league table compiled from more than 1,000 testimonies from students.
The Everyone s Invited website, which publishes accounts of sexual abuse and harassment, released the data yesterday to highlight the problem on campuses.
It said rape culture is endemic at universities and praised the courage of young women who had come forward to share their stories.
The website released a list of 17 universities mentioned in more than five testimonies, almost all of which were in the elite Russell Group.
The Everyone s Invited website, which publishes accounts of sexual abuse and harassment, released the data yesterday to highlight the problem on campuses (stock image)
One student told ITV News how an assault hit her work, social life and mental health. But it took years for her university to take action against her abuser.
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