Karen Machin, one of the founder members of the ROLE network, spoke with Christine Burns, for the podcast Just Plain Sense.
In this Podcast, Karen talks about stigma and discrimination and the link with hate crime.
Christine Burns MBE is the Equality and Diversity Programme Manager at NHS Northwest. She is also a director of Plain Sense Ltd, providing diversity education and general consultancy to public sector and private organisations. She was the Chair of the North West Equality and Diversity Group from 2007 to May 2010 and is now succeeded by Paul Martin and Louise Barry.