This year Imperial's Beyond Ethnicity Career Conference (BECC) for Minority Ethnic staff and students will take place on Friday 26 September 2025 at Imperial's South Kensington Campus. This one-day event is open to everyone at early career stage including research staff, professional, technical and operational staff, and MSc and PhD students. 

You can now register your place for this exciting and free event.

Keynote

2025's keynote talk will be from Gamiel Yafai MBE, founder of Diversity Marketplace, an initiative set up to support Recruitment Resourcing/Branding Agencies, and Direct Clients to achieve their Diversity an Inclusion objectives in terms of recruitment, attraction and retention. Since its inception, Diversity Marketplace has also conducted 32 research projects and developed many training programmes including the facilitation of the Civil Service’s Positive action Pathway (PAP) modules, Action Learning Sets and development days.

In 2016 Gamiel released his book Demystifying Diversity: A Handbook to Navigate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion- a guidebook to explain the major issues and complexities involved in Equality theory and practice.

BECC Talks and career panel

The conference will host a suite of workshops which will look at the historical context of EDI. how the minority tax affects individuals, how to demonstrate your value in the workplace, learning how to be and attract allies, understanding institutional power dynamics, and identifying competence and confidence.

The day will conclude with a careers panel where we will hear from individuals at mid-career stage in both academia and industry.

Audience

The conference is created for:

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD students
  • Postdoctoral researchers
  • Early career professionals who have an interest in STEMM and business
  • Alumni are also very welcome to attend 

Organisers

The Conference is organised by Imperial As One, the Race Equality Network for Staff and Postgraduate Students at Imperial College London and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre.