inclusivity

Planner Live Online: Covid-19 exposes the risks in the built environment

29.06.2020

Laura Edgar

The causes of poor health outcomes in the built environment are well known, an audience at an RTPI webinar has heard, but what is needed are the resources to address poor health and a wide range of professions need to be part of the discussions intended to achieve this.

Women of Influence 2020

06.03.2020

The Planner

Who are the women working in and around planning who are having an impact - both on individual planners, teams and organisations; and on planning policy and practice? Here's our Women of Influence for 2020...

Men - the secret to greater equality for women

05.03.2020

Anna Sabine

Gender equality in industry can only be achieved if organisations make the effort to engage men in discussions, campaigns and policy formulation alongisde women, insted of making it a women-only issue,...

The gender agenda: How planning with women in mind can improve our towns cities

03.03.2020

Natalya Palit

2018/19’s RTPI George Pepler award-winner used her grant to investigate the impact of ‘gender mainstreaming’ in Austria’s capital city. Natalya Palit MRTPI finds out what UK planning can learn from Vienna....

Whose transport system is it anyway?

03.03.2020

Joanna Ward

Joanna Ward considers the gender imbalances in transport planning and how the profession should refocus to ensure our transport infrastructure serves everyone.

RTPI appoints diversity consultant

17.07.2019

Laura Edgar

The RTPI has appointed a specialist diversity and inclusion consultant to draw up an action plan that aims to help increase diversity of the town planning profession alongside the institute’s members.

Why we made a placemaking toolkit for the LGBT community

09.07.2019

Yohanna Weber

An LGBT+ place-making toolkit has been published to support the protection and development of LGBT+...

Gender inequality is still harming planning

28.06.2019

Aude Bicquelet-Lock

We talk a lot about diversity and inclusivity in the workplace, but new RTPI research shows that gender inequality is alive and well in planning, says Aude Bicquelet-Lock

We need to look at the person, not their haircut

14.03.2019

Richard Douglas

Employers should hire individuals based on ability not their ethnic background, argues Richard Douglas

Nominate your ‘women of influence’ 2019

21.01.2019

Simon Wicks

There’s less than one week left to nominate your Women of Influence for 2019! The survey closes at 3pm on Monday, 25 February.

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