Since taking over as leader of GSK’s LGBT+ employee resource group – Spectrum – two years ago, Jason has worked towards building a culture where LGBT+ employees feel comfortable to be themselves. This has involved Jason leading the organisation’s entry into the Stonewall’s WEI, sitting on the newly created LGBT+ Council as one of the Spectrum leads, visiting some of the country’s most LGBT+ friendly organisations to learn best practice and share learnings/ideas, and creating gender-neutral identity and gender expression policies. Jason also mentors other employees and was responsible for gaining endorsement from the then CEO to fly the rainbow flag above GSK’s corporate headquarters. Jason’s key passion lies in furthering LGBT equality and inclusion in science and health research, where he has been the GSK lead on a collaboration between GSK, the Wellcome Trust and Francis Crick Institute to form the Proud Science Alliance in 2017. The purpose of the alliance is to promote LGBT+ equality in the scientific community, since no such group or organisation currently exists. He also recently participated in an external panel discussion at the inaugural EDIS (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Science & Health Research) symposium and is an active member of Stonewall.
