Diversity

MORSON NEWS | 4 MIN READ Northern Power Women release Future and Power List for 2020. We're delighted that one of our own, Charlotte Lewis, Head of Technology - Vencuro is featured on the Future List. The country’s largest awards championing gender equalities announces the Future and Power Lists for 2020. Northern Power Women today have released the names of 102 women who ha...

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION | 2 MIN READ Morson are proud to announce that we have joined leading companies from a range of sectors and industries in signing the Inclusive Culture Pledge in 2020, an initiative managed by diversity consultancy The EW Group. Diversity and inclusion in the workplace is becoming increasingly important for both employers and employees. Research has s...

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION | 6 MIN READ In September, we launched our Rainbow Laces campaign which saw hundreds of Morson track operatives working on the London Underground given rainbow-striped laces for their safety boots in celebration and support of the LGBT community. To celebrate Rainbow Laces Day 2019, we reflect on the successes of our Rainbow Laces initiative, find out m...

DIVERSITY EVENT | 2 MIN READ Morson was proud to sponsor the R-Ladies data event which was focused around creating diversity in data hosted by Thoughtworks. The mission of R-Ladies is to achieve proportionate representation by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently underrepresented in the R community. We spoke to Ellen from R-Ladies to find out mo...

DIVERSITY | 4 MIN READ We chat to Anna Wooden who is flying the flag for women in rail working within Morson's rail division. Find out more about her flourishing career and how she says that working within a male-dominated industry only makes her even more determined to prove that women are equal to men when out on track. We’ve proudly been flying the flag for women in rail ...

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION | 6 MIN READ Hundreds of Morson Track Operatives working on the London Underground are being given rainbow-striped laces for their safety boots in celebration and support of the LGBT community. As members of LGBT charity Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme, Morson has committed to ensuring all of its candidates are encouraged to be themselves at w...

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION | 4 MIN READ We sat down with Charlotte Curtis, Project Manager at First Group to find out more about her career journey and aspirations for the future. Find out more about Morosn's commitment to diversity. Due to expansion and significant investment in infrastructure, confidence in the UK rail industry is at its highest. Crossrail and the soon to comme...

Working as Head of Marketing for a global staffing business that operates within some of the sectors hardest hit by diversity imbalance, it has been a priority of mine from day one to embrace and promote diversity, both within the Morson Group and amongst the many stakeholders we support. I was completely honoured to be named on Northern Power Women’s Future List 2019, havin...

INDUSTRY NEWS | AEROSPACE | 4 MIN READ The European Space Agency (ESA) and Barbie have collaborated to showcase the achievements of Samantha Cristoforetti, the only active female astronaut in Europe. The campaign will begin with a number of motivational videos being released, in which Ms Cristoforetti will show young girls from the UK, Germany, France and Italy around the ES...

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION | 5 MIN READ Diversity, equality and inclusion are three codes that the tech industry is yet to crack. Currently, just 17% of tech roles are filled by women, with the sector. We take a look at some company-wide culture changes that will set the standard of what tech companies can be doing to address and stamp out the issue of gender inequality. Diversit...