Jacket and Tie…Or Female Equivalent
Imagine your workplace dress regulations, now go back in time to the early 1900s. The British Army has made great progress towards gender equality and...
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Glacial Process Integrating Women
BLUF: The British Army’s strategy for the integration of women is outdated, ineffective and requires a radically different approach. The British Army is trying. The...
International Women’s Day 2021 – Wavell Room #choosetochallenge
International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 seeks to inculcate a global challenge culture and raise awareness of the problems that still exist for women. In Defence,...
Wargaming has a Diversity Problem
Executive Summary Wargaming has a diversity problem: 98% white and male. I propose there are two ways that people engage with wargames: To dominate, to...
Neurodiversity in defence and a chaotic world
Defence has a reputation for recruiting from the same groups of people to achieve the same missions and has a blanket prohibition on the recruitment...
Diversity in the MOD: Poisoned Chalice or Golden Opportunity?
The Ministry of Defence has come a long way on diversity in a very short time. When I joined it as a young civil servant...
Communicate to Innovate – Positive Change in the Fire Service
Meaningful verbal communication is a rare art these days, a form of listening that we have somehow managed to devalue. In a world that sees progress...
The Defence Approach to Diversity
If Defence wants to improve diversity of thought, then race or gender based diversity targets; promotion systems; Command, Leadership and Management courses; and staff courses...
Wavell Chats: Warrior Ethos
Friends of Wavell Room take to the chat channels to hash out this whole warrior ethos thing....
RAF Warrant Officers Don’t Grow Beards!
When my good friend and colleague told me he had shaved his beard off after few weeks, I wasn’t too surprised. I presumed he had...