CM welcomes Student Communities Zone to the meeting, and celebrates the first ever joint-zone meeting.
CM introduces TL who first brought up this agenda
TL: concerns across media departments as a whole. Don’t believe it's due to lack of demand. Lack of programmes with diversity e.g. BBC Radio1Xtra
TL: Goal: to find out whether people don’t want to do it, or if barriers are in place
AH (Student Communities Coordinator) opens the discussion with some feedback from President of ACS on what CI can do:
- Student group takeover – take over a CI group / surge / susutv
- Broadcasting in own language - international
- Dedicated slots for workshops for international groups
- Produce a survey: ask INT groups what they would want to see (first thing to do:
CM: What can we do to for BME openness?
- GS: encouragement
- EG: cross-collaboration events
- Using SC societies as a resource
- CCS: PA Dance is very diverse. Collaboration between Dance groups and media
- Clear introduction from the start of how to get involved (e.g. Surge show)
- TL: tap in from the beginning (freshers) for ultimate engagement. Student Communities: many international students don't start until later. Week after bunfight instead.
- EG: Zone conference at beginning of year: opportunity when there are numbers together