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Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship #Conference #CREME28, Thursday 21st November 09:30-16:30 (UK Time) Face to Face Event at Aston University, John Cadbury House Conference Title: Advancing Together: Shaping the Future of Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship Conference Blurb: The landscape of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK is evolving rapidly, presenting both challenges and unprecedented opportunities. Join us for the 28th Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference, where leading scholars, policymakers, and entrepreneurs will come together to explore cutting-edge research, innovative solutions, and emerging opportunities in this vital sector of the UK economy. This year's conference focuses on the theme of "Advancing Together," emphasising the collective effort required to drive positive change and growth in ethnic minority businesses. We'll explore crucial topics such as: • Innovation in Supporting Migrant Communities: Explore how cities like London and Birmingham can successfully integrate superdiverse communities to promote social cohesion and well-being. • Technological Advancements: Discover the latest social and technological innovations supporting migrant communities and their businesses. • Growth Strategies: Uncover new approaches for ethnic minority businesses to pursue growth through inclusive innovation. • Representation and Voice: Discuss strategies to amplify the voices of ethnic minority businesses in policy-making. Our distinguished speakers and panellists will share insights from groundbreaking research, successful case studies, and policy initiatives. Through interactive sessions and networking opportunities, attendees will gain valuable knowledge and connections to help shape the future of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative dialogue that will influence the trajectory of ethnic minority businesses for years to come. Join us in forging new paths and advancing together towards a more inclusive, innovative, and prosperous future for all. Monder Ram. Registration Link:

🔈 | The landscape 🏙️ of #ethnic #minority #entrepreneurship in the UK 🇬🇧 is evolving 📈 rapidly, presenting both challenges and unprecedented opportunities 🤝. Join us on Thursday, November 21st 📅 at Aston University's John Cadbury House 📍 for the 28th Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference, sponsored 🤝 by Lloyds Banking Group. Leading #scholars 👩🏾🎓📖✍🏻, #policymakers 🗳️, and #entrepreneurs 👨💼💼 will come together to explore cutting-edge #research 📝🔎, innovative solutions, and emerging #opportunities in this vital sector of the UK 🇬🇧 #economy. Places are limited and 1️⃣ st come, first served, so make sure to register 🗳️ your #FREE spot here: https://lnkd.in/eH8Wm2PU #CREME28 #AdvancingTogether #Diversity #Enterprise #Inclusion #Communities #Businesses #Research #EthnicMinority #Policy #TeamCREME

🗣 | #FactualFriday And that concludes 🏁🛑 our #CREMEat20 festivities ... 🔈 What an exciting few months it has been celebrating 2️⃣ 0️⃣ years of CREME at Aston University and commemorating this significant milestone 🎉🏆🎂.  As we reflect 🪞 on #CREMEat20, some of the highlights have included:  🔶 The day-long hybrid 20th Anniversary Conference at Aston University 📍 , titled "Two Decades of Impact: CREME's 20th Anniversary Conference", featured an agenda for distinguished 🎖️ #international scholars and practitioners in #minority #entrepreneurship. We were honoured to have 🤝 international 🌏 keynote speakers from Canada 🇨🇦, Italy 🇮🇹, and the Netherlands 🇳🇱, including Robert Kloosterman, Benson Honig, and Daniela Bolzani! 🔶 The #TrailblazerTalks seminar series featured notable experts 🔍💡 highlighting key areas where CREME has made substantial contributions to work 💼, debate 🗣🎙️, and policy 📜 over the last 2️⃣ decades. The talks featured; 🔵 Professor Paul Edwards of Birmingham Business School who discussed 'The Sociology of Work 💼 and Occupations on the Nature of Social Relations at the Workplace’. 🔵 Dr Maria Villares-Varela, Associate Professor 👩🏫 of Sociology at University of Southampton, who gave a presentation titled 'Precarious #migrant #entrepreneurship: gendered ⚥ in-work poverty for new migrants in the UK 🇬🇧.' 🔵 Ian Harrison, Head of Export Development at the Department for Business and Trade, who gave a presentation on 'Modernising Trade 📦🚚 - A Department for Business and Trade Perspective.' 🔵 Last but not least, Professor Richard Roberts, Professorial Research Fellow at CREME, was joined by Dave Tindall, Senior Investment Manager at the British Business Bank 🏦, for a talk titled 'Access to Bank Finance 💳 💷 for Ethnic Minority Firms in the UK - Past ⌛🔙, Present, and Future 🔮.' 🔶 CREME's PhD students 👩⚕️, including Nicolle Mudzongo, Shuai Qin, Daniel Musa Mafulul, and Fahmida Choudhury, highlighted their work with acclaimed practitioner partners 🤝, Punch Records, ACH Refugee Integration Services Provider 🧡, and Food, Farming and Countryside Commission in the #PhDinCREME campaign.  🔶 Farnum Taruvinga, CREME Marketing Coordinator, writing ✍ a blog titled '2 Decades of Impact: CREME's 20th Anniversary Conference. 💫 🙌 | Thank you to all of the speakers, #researchers, #communities, #businesses, #policymakers, partners, and delegates who joined us in marking our 2️⃣ 0️⃣th anniversary and contributed to our mission 🎯🚀 of 'Making Diversity and Enterprise Everyone's 🫵 Business'.  #TeamCREME #CREMEat20 #TeamAston #Diversity #Enterprise #Inclusion #Communities #Businesses #Research #EthnicMinority #Policy

🗣 | #FactualFriday And that concludes 🏁🛑 our #CREMEat20 festivities ... 🔈 What an exciting few months it has been celebrating 2️⃣ 0️⃣ years of CREME at Aston University and commemorating this significant milestone 🎉🏆🎂.  As we reflect 🪞 on #CREMEat20, some of the highlights have included:  🔶 The day-long hybrid 20th Anniversary Conference at Aston University 📍 , titled "Two Decades of Impact: CREME's 20th Anniversary Conference", featured an agenda for distinguished 🎖️ #international scholars and practitioners in #minority #entrepreneurship. We were honoured to have 🤝 international 🌏 keynote speakers from Canada 🇨🇦, Italy 🇮🇹, and the Netherlands 🇳🇱, including Robert Kloosterman, Benson Honig, and Daniela Bolzani! 🔶 The #TrailblazerTalks seminar series featured notable experts 🔍💡 highlighting key areas where CREME has made substantial contributions to work 💼, debate 🗣🎙️, and policy 📜 over the last 2️⃣ decades. The talks featured; 🔵 Professor Paul Edwards of Birmingham Business School who discussed 'The Sociology of Work 💼 and Occupations on the Nature of Social Relations at the Workplace’. 🔵 Dr Maria Villares-Varela, Associate Professor 👩🏫 of Sociology at University of Southampton, who gave a presentation titled 'Precarious #migrant #entrepreneurship: gendered ⚥ in-work poverty for new migrants in the UK 🇬🇧.' 🔵 Ian Harrison, Head of Export Development at the Department for Business and Trade, who gave a presentation on 'Modernising Trade 📦🚚 - A Department for Business and Trade Perspective.' 🔵 Last but not least, Professor Richard Roberts, Professorial Research Fellow at CREME, was joined by Dave Tindall, Senior Investment Manager at the British Business Bank 🏦, for a talk titled 'Access to Bank Finance 💳 💷 for Ethnic Minority Firms in the UK - Past ⌛🔙, Present, and Future 🔮.' 🔶 CREME's PhD students 👩⚕️, including Nicolle Mudzongo, Shuai Qin, Daniel Musa Mafulul, and Fahmida Choudhury, highlighted their work with acclaimed practitioner partners 🤝, Punch Records, ACH Refugee Integration Services Provider 🧡, and Food, Farming and Countryside Commission in the #PhDinCREME campaign.  🔶 Farnum Taruvinga, CREME Marketing Coordinator, writing ✍ a blog titled '2 Decades of Impact: CREME's 20th Anniversary Conference. 💫 🙌 | Thank you to all of the speakers, #researchers, #communities, #businesses, #policymakers, partners, and delegates who joined us in marking our 2️⃣ 0️⃣th anniversary and contributed to our mission 🎯🚀 of 'Making Diversity and Enterprise Everyone's 🫵 Business'.  #TeamCREME #CREMEat20 #TeamAston #Diversity #Enterprise #Inclusion #Communities #Businesses #Research #EthnicMinority #Policy

Celebrating 600 Living Wage employers across the West Midlands! On the morning of the 4th of November (sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ejcz8ZTX) We will be marking a huge milestone in the growth of the Living Wage. In our 11th year of campaigning for fair wages, there are now 600 employers who are putting their hands in their pocket to make sure that their lowest paid workers have a descent wage. Join us in marking this, with refreshments, networking and contributions from major politicians, employers, and civil society leaders from across the West Midlands. Saidul Haque Saeed Angela Jeffery Mashkura Begum (MBA) Stephen Pihlaja Hasan Salim Patel Professor Aleks Subic Asha Rage Andrew Gordon Sharon Thompson, JP John Cotton Monder Ram Gurdeep Chima Taher Gadiwala Richard D Broome Naomi Hawkins

🗞 This week we released our October #newsletter, highlights include: ⭐️ #CREME28 updates with Lloyds Banking Group 🙋♀️ ⭐️ #TrailblazerTalks with various guest speakers for our 20th Anniversary #CREMEat20 🗣 ⭐️ Our #BHM ✊ campaign called 'Did you know?' looking at the theme of #ReclaimingNarratives ⭐️ Partner updates from ACH Refugee Integration Services Provider 🧡 Punch Records Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing Read the newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/eCcAUP_J #Diversity #Enterprise #CREMEat20 #CREME28 #Research #Policy #Impact #TeamCREME

Developing effective civil society leadership is a key mission of our community organising at Citizens UK. To celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, we in Birmingham Citizens previously teamed up with CREME to deliver Leadership Talks in local communities. Watch the below short video as some of these leaders share their experiences of training & acting with us.

New Event: CREME’s 28th Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference, 21 November, Aston University - Register for your FREE place today. https://lnkd.in/eH7w-Hk2 https://lnkd.in/euXHk-B9

🔙 | #ThrowbackThursday 🔈 | Last Thursday, we held our final Trailblazer Talk of 2024 at Aston University‘s , John Cadbury House 📍, with CREME Professorial Research Fellow Professor Richard Roberts leading the discussion 💬, and Dave Tindall, Senior Investment Manager of British Business Bank, also joining us. This talk sought to explore 🧭🔍 one of the most contentious debates #ethnic #minority #entrepreneurship: access to finance 💱 Check out the highlights 🎥 below ⬇ #AccessToFinance #DebtFunding #Finance #SMEGrowth #Diversity #Enterprise #TimeToChange #Research #Impact #TrailblazerTalk 🚨 | But wait, that's not it! Keep an eye 👀 out for an upcoming video with CREME's Centre Director, Professor Monder Ram. Stay tuned ... 📲

#CREME28 🔉 | We are excited to announce that Ian McLaughlan, Strategic Lead for Business Growth West Midlands at West Midlands Combined Authority, will speak 🗣 in Session 5 titled 'Looking to the Future' of our 2️⃣ 8️⃣ th Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference, sponsored by 🤝 Lloyds Banking Group. The conference, titled 'Advancing Together 🤝: Shaping the Future 🔮 of #Ethnic #Minority #Entrepreneurship', will be held on Thursday, November 21st 📅 , at Aston University's John Cadbury House 📍 .  ℹ | As Strategic Lead for Business Growth West Midlands, Ian has led the establishment and development of the service since WMCA took on responsibility for delivering 🚚 support for businesses in April 2023. For over 20 years Ian has led projects and programmes enabling #economic growth 📈 💷 , particularly for small #businesses and #entrepreneurs. Register to hear 👂 from Ian: https://lnkd.in/eH8Wm2PU #CREME28 #AdvancingTogether #Diversity #Enterprise #Inclusion #Communities #Businesses #Research #EthnicMinority #Policy #TeamCREME