Back in business

For various reasons this blog has been taking a long hiatus in recent months.

I’d rather not go into laborious detail as to why, but it has something to do with a 15,000 word dissertation and starting my first proper job in journalism at Third Sector magazine as the fundraising reporter.

This blog will now be resuming normal practice though, with the aim of getting at least one or two posts up a week. And I will also be blogging occasionally for Third Sector; incidentally one of my first posts for the magazine can be found here.

By Sophie Hudson

Independent Business Article

My first ever article in a national newspaper can be found here this morning.

And a useful read for anyone wanting a round up of which shares to buy or sell this week, with Diageo as a headline feature.

By Sophie Hudson

Article link: Out with homophobia in our workplaces

An article of mine about homophobia in the UK workplace has recently been published in Personnel Today, click here to read it.

The main message I would like people to take from this is to understand that this is a problem which although improving does still exist.

One of the things which was brought to my attention several times when I was interviewing people for the article was that not being homophobic seems to have become a bit of a ‘fashionable’ thing in recent years.

They said they were worried that when this fashion becomes a bit tired that people’s true prejudices will surface more obviously again and this, quite rightly, scares them.

We’ve therefore really got to work on our unnecessary prejudices as a society a lot more. They don’t do anyone any favours, not the people who hold the prejudices as my article hopefully points out, and especially not the people who are suffering purely because you have unnecessarily stereotyped them.

By Sophie Hudson