Overview

The Black Lives Matter protests brought the conversation around race into sharp focus. In this session, Dr Ollie Folayan will discuss diversity and inclusion landscape and seek to define the place of race and ethnicity within that landscape. The nature of racism is also described through the lens of history. The talk will also discuss the process of allyship and outline steps organisations can take to become more equitable.

Speaker

Dr Ollie Folayan, Co-founder and Chair, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE)

Ollie is visiting professor to the School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee and head of process and safety at engineering consultancy, Optimus Plus Aberdeen. He is the co-founder of AFBE-UK. Ollie graduated with a BEng in chemical process engineering with fuel technology from the University of Sheffield in 1999 and then earned a doctorate (PhD) in fuels and combustion from University of Leeds in 2002, authoring five international publications in the field of combustion and engineering. To date Ollie has worked on major CAPEX front end engineering design, detailed design and commissioning projects.

Ollie has championed successful outreach programmes such as Making Engineering Hot, NextGen (Scotland), Transition and Real Projects, and has co-authored three publications on the influence of role models in the transition from academic study to the workplace and on the sustainability of the engineering profession in the UK. Ollie has chaired a number of annual seminars featuring key industry leaders and politicians and is a regular speaker at events on varied engineering topics. Ollie was a member of the All Energy Diversity and Inclusion task group setup in 2019 by Oil and Gas UK.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Milton Keynes Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Webinar archive

This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend, but if you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand then you will need to be a member of the Milton Keynes Members Group.