BGTC Voice is the publication of the British Global Talent Council. We write about people who are building a career across borders: founders, engineers, researchers, artists, designers, film-makers and others whose work deserves to be known outside the room where it is done.
If that is you, tell us what you do. A person reads every message, and we reply to each one within three working days.
Tell us your story
A few lines are enough. Say who you are, what you do and where we can see it. The longer conversation can wait.
Stories we would like to hear
These are the kinds of story we go looking for, field by field. They are prompts, not case studies: nobody on this page is a real person we have written about. If your work sits between two of them, or none, write to us anyway.
Startup founders
You built a company, a product or a team from almost nothing. We would like to hear what the first year was really like, what you got wrong and what you would do differently. Real numbers are welcome, but the decisions behind them matter more.
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Software and AI engineers
Maybe you maintain a library thousands of people depend on, or you build systems that quietly keep things running. Tell us about the technical problem that nearly beat you and how you got round it. Open code, papers and talks give us something to check.
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Scientists and researchers
Your work lives in journals and conferences, and most people outside your lab have never heard of it. We would like a plain account of the question you are chasing and why it matters beyond your field. Tell us what is solid, and where the uncertainty still sits.
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Doctors and healthcare professionals
Clinicians, nurses and health-tech people see problems before the rest of us do. Tell us about something you changed in practice, a service you set up or a tool you built for patients. We never need names or records, only your own experience.
Visual artists
Painters, sculptors, photographers and printmakers: we want to know how a body of work came about. What were you trying to say, where has it been shown, and what happened when it met an audience? Exhibitions and catalogues are the kind of detail we can verify.
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Musicians and composers
A record, a score, a tour or a collaboration across borders could be your story. Tell us what the music is for and who it found, in your own words. Links to releases and performances help us listen before we write.
Architects and designers
A building, a product or a public space that people use every day, with your name rarely attached. We would like to hear how it was designed, what the brief got wrong and how you solved it. Photographs and project pages are a good place to start.
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Chefs and restaurateurs
Food is craft, business and culture all at once. Tell us about opening a kitchen, building a menu around a place or a tradition, or keeping a small restaurant going. We like honest stories about suppliers, teams and the long hours.
Fashion designers and makers
Whether you cut patterns, run a small label or work with fabric and repair, tell us what you make and why. We would like to hear about materials, production and the people who actually wear the work. Collections, stockists and press give us something to point to.
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Film-makers and media people
Directors, producers, editors, writers and journalists: tell us about a film, a series or a piece of reporting you are proud of. What was hard to get made, and who helped? Credits, screenings and festival selections are the evidence we look for.
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Fintech and finance
Payments, lending, data and the plumbing behind money. Tell us about a product that solved a real problem for real customers, or a regulatory knot you worked through. We would rather read how it works than hear how big it is.
Education and social enterprise
Teachers, school founders and people running organisations that put purpose first. Tell us what changed for the people you work with, and what it took to keep going. Modest results, honestly described, make better stories than big claims.
Photo credits: Film-makers photo: Matt Batchelor (derivative work: Octave.H), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Fintech photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. All other card photographs are CC0 or public domain.
Who we want to hear from
- Founders and builders. You started a company, a product or a project, and there is something to show for it: users, revenue, a team, a launch.
- Engineers, researchers and scientists. Your work is in papers, patents, open code or systems that people rely on, and almost nobody outside your field has heard of it.
- Artists, writers, musicians and film-makers. You have exhibitions, books, releases, screenings or prizes behind you, and you are taking your work to a new country.
- Designers, architects and people in fashion. Your projects are built, worn or in use, and the credit for them should carry your name.
- Organisers and partners. You run a forum, a festival or a programme and would like to work with the Council. Use the contact page for that.
What we would like to know
- What you do, in two or three sentences that someone outside your field would understand.
- What you have done that can be checked: a product and its users, a paper, an exhibition, a prize, a building, a film, a talk. One link is worth more than a paragraph.
- Where you are and where you are heading: the country you work in now, and the one you want to be known in.
- Why now: a launch, a show, a publication, a move, or simply the moment you decided your work should be visible.
You do not need a finished text, a press release or a publicist. A short, plain message is enough to start the conversation.
What happens next
We read what you send and write back. If your story fits BGTC Voice, we tell you how we would approach it and what we would need from you. If it does not, we say so. You decide at every step whether to go on. How we work on publications, and what the work costs, is set out on the Publication Services page.
We publish only what you have agreed to, and we check the facts we print. Please do not send confidential documents; links to public pages are all we need at this stage.