MRSpride: SHOW UP

1.30pm – Registration and refreshments

2.00pm – A reading

Chloe Filani, poet, artist and performer

2.10pm – Welcome from event chair

Michael Brown, founding co-chair of MRSpride & Managing Partner, Insight, Data Solutions and Marketing, UM

2.20pm – KEYNOTE - Subjectivity: Embracing your own lived experience in your research practice

Renato Verdugo, YouTube

2.40pm – Q&A

2.50pm – A word from Lady Phyll      

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Political activist, co-founder of UK Black Pride & executive director, Kaleidoscope Trust

3.00pm – BREAK

3.20pm - Exploring Homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in sport through evaluating Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign

Gregor Jackson, Walnut and Robbie de Santos, Stonewall

3.40pm – Q&A

3.50pm - The Rainbow Gap: The differences between how organisations and consumers perceive LGBTQ+ issues

Luke Powney, Max Wilson and Jessica Cox, Yonder Consulting

4.10pm – Q&A

4.20pm - How we helped Manchester Pride return to its protesting roots

Anthony Shephard-Williams, Carla Berzolla and Chloe Stephenson, Mustard Research

4.40pm – Q&A

4.50pm – Chair’s wrap-up

5.00pm – DRINKS ON THE UM ROOF TERRACE

7.00pm – Close