ABOUT
Designing and leading successful Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB), Employee Wellbeing and Engagement strategies and culture change programmes. Experienced in setting and delivering tangible targets, by combining research and data with lived experience and a hands-on approach.
Committed to delivering impactful change projects both within organisations and across the UK through voluntary work and appointments to National Student Pride’s Advisory Board and Student Mind’s Anti-racism Council.
Recently awarded the Diversity Champion Corporate Award and International Inclusion Award, which form the International Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2023, by awarding body Diversiton for the development and early implementation of Unite Students DEIB and Wellbeing strategy. Shortlisted as a Rising Star for Property Week’s Student Accommodation Awards and Diversity Team of the Year at the British Diversity Awards 2024.
“As an intersectional woman, I’m passionate about promoting understanding and acceptance, over tolerance, and the workplace being an inclusive space where people can bring their full selves and feel like they belong.”
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Advisory Board and Trustee
Culture change management
Keynote speaker
Policy development
Report commissions
Research and innovation
Strategy design, developlement and implementation
Training design, development and facilitation (Inclusive leadership)
Reports & Publications
Living Black at University
Research into the experiences of Black Students in UK accommodation. Commissioned by Unite Students and carried out by Halpin, with the aim to create meaningful change through collaboration.
The intersectionality of identity
An exploration of identity as an intersectional and multi-faceted concept, written for Queermunity, a community-focused magazine that aims to amplify the voices and celebrate the stories of LGBTQIA+ people and their allies.
The future of race and inclusion
Podcast on the future of sustainability within purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), focusing on the steps the sector has made towards greater race equity since Living Black at University was published.
Diversity & Inclusion in HE
Podcast with fellow sector experts to consider race and inclusion in Higher Education (HE) after a year that has thrown race equality into sharp focus across all walks of life, and how to create spaces where all races can flourish.
Embedding EDI & Wellbeing
An interview on Sam’s experience of embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion & Wellbeing withing the UK’s largest and leading PBSA, Unite Students, to provide equal opportunities for all.