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Consider culture add, not culture fit: how to re-think recruitment to support neurodivergence

Employers are increasingly aware that welcoming and celebrating workers from all backgrounds and identities can have significant business benefits and challenge wider social inequalities. Despite m...

neurodiversity in the workplace
Embrace every kind of mind: a guide to creating neuro-inclusive working environments

Neurodiversity describes the amazing variety in human neurology, thinking, communication styles and expression. Those typically excluded are a wide spectrum of neurodivergent conditions, characteri...

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Morson unite for 'Accessibility to Me' Week 2022: One World 🌍

This week we celebrate ‘Accessibility to Me Awareness Week’ with our web accessibility partners Recite Me. Together, we are uniting everyone across the globe and communicating a vital message: To b...

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Morson Group launches 'The Morson STEM Foundation' to level up the North West

Morson Group has set a benchmark for big business involvement in the north’s levelling up agenda by funding a new STEM centre (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) and multiple scholarships at...

Accessible, universal, careers for all: International careers week
Enabling careers for all with Recite Me | National Careers Week

For National Careers week 2022, their ethos is all about empowering positive change through Careers Education. With National Careers Week well underway, our very own EDI Lead, Sam Price caught up w...

New beginnings: The PoWEr up Collective
Morson join Northern PoWEr Women's 'PoWEr up Collective'

Morson Group is proud to join other pioneering organisations and over 70,000 individuals in the PoWEr Up conversations and collective; leading the way to mentor, connect and accelerate change and g...

Inclusive culture
The Inclusive Culture Pledge 2022: Our Commitment

​Morson Group ​has joined leading companies from a range of sectors and industries in signing the Inclusive Culture Pledge in 2022, an initiative managed by diversity consultancy The EW Group. Dive...

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Over 55s – the great debate on this untapped talent pool

​While businesses have spent years trying to perfect their ED&I strategy to bring people of all genders, ethnicities and abilities into the workforce, new research demonstrates one major demographi...

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Should we celebrate International Men’s Day? History, controversy & significance

​Every year on 19th November, International Men’s Day (IMD) is celebrated across the world. Many people will be left wondering why men need an awareness day when every day could be considered male...

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"My career has been better than I could ever have anticipated." Meet Elise Coalter, Project Director at St. Modwen

Elise Coalter is a Project Director at St. Modwen, a British-based property investment and development business specialising in the regeneration and remediation of brownfield land and urban enviro...

Accessibility: what does it mean to you?
Accessibility: what does it mean to you?

​When you hear the word ‘accessibility’, how does it resonate with you? Equal access, ease of use to the internet and online content, level playing field, wheelchair users’ ability to access shops...

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Diversify or die: Inclusion is key to the survival of UK manufacturing

​Make UK, the Manufacturer's Organisation, is helping the sector engineer a diverse, digital and green future.​It aims to help the manufacturing business change, adapt and transform to meet the f...

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"Turning my back on medicine was a big decision" - Maneesha Bhate, Software Design Authority Enterprise Architect

​Firmly set on a career in medicine, it was only when volunteering at a local hospital that Maneesha Bhate realised it wasn’t her destined route. With her father already a successful engineer, she ...

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Engineering HERoes: Morson renames meeting rooms after female engineering pioneers

​​As a reflection of our recognition of the role that women have played in the fields of engineering and beyond, Morson has renamed our meeting rooms in honour of several key figures.Our brand new ...

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"I'd never considered engineering as an option" - Emma's journey to automation engineering

​Emma approached Morson back in November 2019 as she was made redundant from her position at Warwick University and looking for her next role.​After a successful first and second stage interview, w...