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Employment levels for people with learning disabilities in the UK are 5 to 10 times lower than they were a hundred years ago. And the experiences of workers from the 1910s–50s offer inspiration as well as lessons about safeguarding.

To mark LGBTSTEM Day, celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer scientists, engineers and mathematicians around the world, our researchers tell us why celebrating diversity is important – and why identities really do matter. 

As the UK marks Black History Month, researchers from across the University talk about their route to ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ, their inspiration and their motivation.

¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ celebrated the first ever LGBTSTEM Day on 5 July – recognising all those who work in science, technology, engineering and medicine and who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other minority gender identities and sexual orientations.

At the end of June, the charity Stonewall produced a report along with ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ’s Centre for Family Research into the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pupils at our schools. On the eve of Pride London, Dr Nick Bampos, one of the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ’s Equality and Diversity Champions looks at the findings.

The Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Competition, set up last year to encourage new work propelling social change, is now open to a wider range of aspiring poets. Entrants are asked to submit their work by 17 October 2012.