Diversity

10 Steps Businesses Can Take To Improve Diversity And Inclusion In The Workforce

A list of practical tips - from adjusting how you screen candidates, trying practical software programs that help combat bias, using clear and unambiguous inclusion statements in employee manuals and contracts, to updating your complaints system.

10 Steps to Make Sense of Answers to Open-Ended Questions

Two-page tip sheet on how to code and analyse qualitative data.

101 Links to Black Writers and Voices

Links to work by black writers, journalists, scholars and other commentators in Australia in the context of Black Lives Matter.

'As I write this on 23 June 2020, the two scholars most cited and promoted on social media in the field of racism and privilege, are White... The promotion of their work over Black writers perpetuates the idea that White people understand racism best, and that only they can solve it. Dangerously, it suggests that racism actually has nothing to do with Black people.'

20 Actions for Reconciliation

20 actions from Reconciliation Movement Week 2021, which include action points and links to improve, enrich, and act as a reference point and resource for your organisational culture.

ReFrame Stamp Report on the Top Films of 2022

Annually, ReFrame (the gender equity coalition founded by the Sundance Institute and WIF), publishes a list in collaboration with IMDbPro that reveals which of the year’s top films earn the ReFrame Stamp: a mark of distinction for projects that demonstrate a commitment to gender-balanced hiring. This report found that Gender-Balanced Hiring in Film Plateaued in 2022.

3 Ways Structural Racism Could Be Hurting You at Work — and How to Navigate Them

Jodi-Ann Burey shares her experiences in a toxic workplace, defines the issues, and provides an invaluable list of how you can individualy enact personal change in your career and working experience in the context of racist treatment.

30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday

Article listing actions specifically for the Asian community.

'In doing DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) work, I’ve found it useful to actually name the detailed and insidious ways we all participate in oppressing each other.

5 ways intersectionality affects diversity and inclusion at work

An article looking at the importance of considering intersectionality in diversity and inclusion efforts, and the negative impacts of not doing so.

6 Degrees Dictionary: A User's Guide to Inclusion

6 Degrees is a Canadian initiative that responds to rising nativism and exclusion through connection, artistic representation, online engagement and language. This co-created dictionary examines 12 words responsible for disagreement and misunderstanding, and recasts them to provoke and inspire.

6 Degrees Dictionary: A User's Guide to Inclusion - Videos

Three short videos on the 6 Degrees Dictionary. 6 Degrees is a Canadian initiative that responds to rising nativism and exclusion through connection, artistic representation, online engagement and language. The dictionary recasts 12 words typically responsible for disagreement and misunderstanding.

Nautanki Theatre

Focusing on the South-Asian migrant community, Nautanki Theatre is a performing arts organisation based in Western Sydney aiming to create works truly representing contemporary Australia. It reaches more than 100,000 people every year through its programs.

Reporting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Issues

Guide focused on reporting on Indigenous issues in the Australian media, but with best practice on cultural awareness that is applicable more broadly, such as avoiding assumptions about peoples' appearance and acknowledging the spectrum of views within a community,

7 ways your organisation can start to uproot systemic racism in the workplace

Organisations everywhere are discussing how to uproot systemic racism from the workplace. Where should you start? This article from the World Economic Forum offers up 7 practical steps for building a more diverse and inclusive organisation.

A guide for ensuring inclusion and equity in education

An UNESCO guide for policymakers to review how well equity and inclusion currently figure in existing education policies, determine actions to improve policies, and monitor progress. Features an assessment framework spanning concepts, policy statements, structures and systems, and practices.

A lack of intersectional data hides the real gender pay gap

Article looking at the need for an intersectional approach in Australian pay gap analysis. Experiences of gender-based discrimination are compounded by intersecting identities such as race, sexuality and disability - but these factors are are being hidden from view.

A Most Magnificent Mosaic

What happened when the Commonwealth Bank's board endorsed a target for 'The cultural diversity of our senior leadership to match the cultural diversity of the Australian population by 2020.' A case study of the strategies, policies, implementation and lessons learned.

A new anti-racism network is encouraging people in Australia to report racist attacks

An article around a survey from Victoria University, detailing the experiences of people who have experienced racism and haven't reported it. And as a call to action have set up an Australian-first, local anti-racism network.

A "Postdevelopment" zine

A short zine introducing "Postdevelopment," an approach responding to capitalism, Eurocentrism, Anthropocentrism and ongoing colonial legacies that calls for the end of development and proposes alternatives to it. Resolves definitions of post- and de- colonialism, and offers further reading.

A real history of Aboriginal Australians, the first agriculturalists

Bruce Pascoe introduces his influential research in Australian history, which he wrote about in Dark Emu.

'In 2014 I wrote a book Dark Emu, which exploded the myth that Aboriginal people were mere hunters and gatherers and did nothing with the land. I wrote the book because I found it hard to convince Australians that Aboriginal people were farming.'

Adjust Your View: Multicultural Arts Marketing Toolkit

Adjust Your View was intended to provide a framework for the development of multicultural audience strategies for the arts and cultural products. It also features leading Australian, US and European practices and case studies.

While the toolkit was written in 2009, it is still used across the arts for those wishing to develop multicultural audiences. This toolkit is divided into four sections - each part can used stand-alone or integrated together.

Adjusting the Colour Balance

Report on how to increase BAME partipation and representation in Film and TV, both in front of, and behind the camera with particular focus on directors. The four recommendations include policy advice on data collection, setting targets, recruitment and contracts.

All Culture is Local

Developed over five years, this Australian Research Council project offers 17 case studies and ‘recipes’ on Cultural Mapping and Data Collection and Cultural Planning. It focuses on council strategies in regional NSW, but many tips are transferable, eg Reuse existing data to save money; Use creative engagement for better results; work collaboratively; Include everyone, not just the ‘usual suspects'. Includes survey questions to use in local culture mapping.

Amazon Studios Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Playbook

The Amazon Studio diversity, equity and inclusion playbook offers tools and resources to guide decision making and 'disrupt biases' that occur across the lifecycle of a series or movie. Content covers storytelling, hiring behind the camera, casting, production, resources, reporting & documentation.

The resource provides tools to make inclusive decisions. It also suggests criteria for 'informed and consistent' creative choices and fosters thinking beyond the 'status quo'.

Anti-racism requires so much more than 'checking your privilege'

Article responding to the celebrity 'I take responsibility' pledges sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement.

'The mainstreaming of anti-racist discourse is causing many people to question their own position in the world. As welcome as this is, let’s not stop at self-reflection. Unlearning personal prejudices should coincide with undoing the structures, logics and economic arrangements that perpetuate global anti-blackness.'

AORTA - Anti-oppression Resource and Training Alliance - Resources

A selection of toolkits, handouts, guides, and other resources created by an American cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and solidarity economy through intersectional approaches to liberation. Covers transformative justice, racial justice, gender and anti-oppression among other topics.

Array Crew

ARRAY CREW is an equal opportunity platform built by Ava DuVernay, with a mission to support professionals in the film and television industry from underrepresented populations.

It includes, but is not limited to, women of all backgrounds and people of African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander descent.

Artistic Vibrancy

Subtitled 'A way for organisations to talk about artistic impact', this document outlines processes for gathering data and feedback on the artistic vibrancy of an organisation, along with case studies of arts organisations who've done this.

Suggested processes include alumni, artist and audience surveys, community consultation, benchmarking, guest artists interviews, peer review, annual strategic reviews, as well as numerical data such as artist and audience metrics (including items to track).

Arts create safe spaces for difficult conversations

In Nigeria, the Literary Evenings held by the Yasmin El-Rufai Foundation (YELF) attract a hugely diverse crowd. They provide a rare safe space for divided communities to enjoy the arts together and often spark difficult and sensitive conversations.

Assessing impact and the Public Sector Equality Duty

A step-by-step guide for Scottish organisations to assessing impact and equality of projects in accordance with the equality duty under the UK's Equality Act 2010. Includes guidelines on when to conduct an assessment, scoping, analysing information, decision making, publishing and monitoring.

Assessing your organisation's capacity for successful audience development

Worksheet 2.6 on p. 135 of the Increasing Cultural Participation Handbook is a worksheet to evaluate an organisation's current ability to implement an audience development initiative. Question topics include not only vision and resources, but the willingness of the organisation to evolve.

The Handbook also contains a step-by-step 'how to' for audience development, including other practical tools.

The Relationship is the Project: Working with Communities (Audiences and Cultural Diversity)

Cultural diversity of audiences is as significant as diversity on stage. This chapter examines the importance and use multicultural media as a vital communication tool for diverse audiences.

Australia needs more media diversity – and there are ways to achieve it

Bruce Guthrie outlines some steps to better media diversity, such as aiding small and medium publishers, and collaboration between government and the industry.

2022 Australian Publishing Industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion

The Australian Publishing Industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion reflects the views and responses of 989 staff and contractors surveyed in March and April 2022. The full report includes the methodology and sections on mental health and inclusion and belonging.

"The survey sets a baseline to track the demographic makeup of staff in Australian publishing; the high level of engagement with the survey indicates a strong desire for greater industry diversity and inclusion."

Australia's creative industry is shockingly white. But don't be discouraged

An astute analysis on the whiteness of arts leadership in Australia that provides recommendations on how to 'shift the balance'.

"Have hard conversations, set goals, take risks and appoint new gatekeepers...shifting this balance is well within your power – and the health of your industries depend on it."

Australia’s media has been too white for too long. This is how to bring more diversity to newsrooms

Article outlining ways to bring more diversity to Australian newsrooms, including offering increased training to CALD journalists, strengthening talent pipelines through better CALD networks, mentorships and events; improving CALD talent pipelines and consulting with people of colour. It also recommends undertaking and publishing regular diversity audits.

'The ABC and SBS publish regular diversity reports, and arguably, the very existence of these reports shows some progress is being made.'

Australia's Music Festival Diversity Problem By The Numbers & Some Steps To Improve It

This article calls out the 'top 5 cop-outs for booking a lineup that is not diverse' and has statistical information on the lack of diversity in music festivals - and by extension the music industry. It interviews women of colour and non-binary artists like the Papua New Guinea-born musician Ngaiire who tells us it's time to "look outside of what the 'industry gods' tell us what’s marketable".

Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture

A comprehensive yet simple guide that contextualises the race outcomes and leadership gaps in the US social sector, and offers approaches for building a 'Race Equity Culture' in your organisation. Identifies equity cycles, investments, levers, vocabularies and and tools.

Being Antiracist

Toolkit and analysis of Anti-Racism.

'Reflect on choices you make in your daily life (i.e., who you build relationships with, what media you follow, where you shop). How do these choices reflect being antiracist?'

Best practice recruitment guide for creative leaders

A comprehensive toolkit exhibiting best practice for creative leaders to hire in a diverse manner. (Links directly to a PDF.)

BFI diversity standards 'failing to tackle race discrimination in UK film industry'

Article on an evaluation of the BFI Diversity Standards in relation to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) participation after six years in operation by Dr Clive Nwonka from the London School of Economics.

'The research, conducted with the co-operation of the BFI, suggested that BAME participation in the industry remained considerably lower than other under-represented groups, particularly in behind-the-camera roles.'

Black Illustrations

Free digital designs of black people to use in online projects, such as websites, infographics or mobile apps. Over 40 images of people with different skin tones in workplace and medical settings, downloadable as PNG, JPG and Sketch and fully scalable.

Budget Equity Assessment Tool

Developed by the US City of Portland for its bureaus, this tool offers a self-assessment to assess how equity is prioritised and addressed within budgets. While not developed for arts projects, this checklist offers insight into methods of equity-testing budgets.

Building Your Plan: A Cultural Equity & Inclusion Toolkit

A worksheet for small organisations to create their own Cultural Equity and Inclusion Plan. This includes crafting a cultural equity statement and building an implementation plan.

CAAP Directors' Initiative

This initiative aims to unearth, nurture and develop Asian Australian directors for the stage. Includes a tailored 2 year training program for selected participants in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

Campaign for Race Equality in the Workplace

Business in the Community (BITC) in the UK lay out actions to prioritise on race. They offer a 'Race at Work Charter', with a list of actions to take as an organisation, and discusses the impacts of the role of organisational culture in making change happen. Download 'Monitoring ethnicity: A comprehensive guide for employers' for tips on capturing ethnicity and pay data in your organisation.

Capturing diversity metrics in the workplace

This article raises awareness of legal obligations in governance with regard to equity, diversity and inclusion. It offers a useful checklist on how to capture data and ensure that your legal, HR and policy processes are addressing equity, diversity and inclusion effectively.

Celebrating BIPOC Nonprofit Leaders: The Black Community Building Collaborative

As the nonprofit sector and unmet needs continue to grow, there’s a conscious effort by Black-led organizations to ensure that their services and communities are prioritized. By working to build enduring partnerships rather than transactional relationships with funders, the Black Community Building Collective prioritizes investments in the long-term sustainability of Black-led organizations throughout the community.

Centring Marginalised Voices at Work

Diversity Council Australia (DCA) has created a new guide on centring marginalised voices at work. This is a practical guide that clarifies what it means to centre voice and why this is important. It provides a step-by-step guide on how organisations can do this.

Check Our Biases to Wreck Our Biases

Second in a New York Times series on implicit bias, looking at how implicit bias works in selection situations and how some people are auditing their own implicit biases.

Commissioning for Diversity and Inclusion Guidelines — Screen Content

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines – Screen Content” will require production companies to provide greater access and opportunity to under-represented people and perspectives – on and off screen – including gender diversity, Indigenous Australians, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, people living with a disability and the LGBTQI+ community.

Community-Engaged Practice with Jade Lillie and Lia Pa'apa'a

Discussion of the book 'The Relationship is the Practice' edited by Jade Lillie and Lia Pa'apa'a which explores community engagement, collaboration, intersectionality, cultural safety, racial literacy, access and inclusion. Also links to the book.

Convivial Thinking: Critical Decolonial Collaborative - Raï Blog

Short blog posts by members of a global, open group of scholars working on post- and decolonial approaches to development and beyond. ‘Conviviality,’ means equity, mutual respect for others and nature, and assuming joint responsibility for how we live, act, and engage.

Counting Culture: Six Principles for Measuring the Cultural Diversity of Your Workplace

Concepts of identity are crucial to benchmarking diversity. These principles describe the importance of gathering detailed, granular statistics that make room for nuanced identities when mapping the cultural diversity of your organisation.

Courageous Citizens. How Culture Contributes to Social Change

This purchasable book affirms culture as a critical space to practice courage and perseverance towards societal reconfigurations. Aligned with the European funding program of the same name, it features those behind alternative stories, opening up space for questioning the fundamental nature of democracy.

Cracking the Codes: Power Analysis

An analysis of systemic inequality, putting bias in the context of wider history, identities, structures and institutions.

'The current conversation is not only shallow, but actually harmful. We continue to primarily focus on individuals, when institutional and structural inequities are the bigger problem.'

Creative Diversity. The state of diversity in the UK's creative industry and what we can do about it

Report on the economic case for diversifying the creative industry workforce in the UK. The report outlines the case for missed business opportunities and suggests routes of action to combat a lack of diversity.

Creative Industries Council Diversity Charter

One-page charter adopted by members of the UK's Creative Industries Council, including Arts Council England, British Film Institute, Crafts Council, UK Music and UK Interactive Entertainment. It commits the industry to take action in eight areas, including collecting data, increasing talent pipelines, promote diversity at senior levels and setting meaningful targets.

Creative Majority: ‘What Works’ to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion in the creative sector.

A report with case studies from Def Jam, Raising Films and NBC Universal. It recommends adopting a policy framework of the 'five As': Ambition, Allyship, Accessibility, Adaptability, and Accountability, as a continuum for ongoing appraisal and change.

The report can be used as a handbook for cultural and creative workers frustrated at the pace of change, and has potential application for other sectors, including higher education.

Crewvie entertainment and production crew directory

Crewvie is a crew directory and global database-driven platform of verified entertainment and production professionals. Developed, curated, and wholly owned by an all-women team, it focuses on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

CrossRoads Radio Drama

A six-part radio play aimed at creating awareness on the ‘Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.’ Reveals how the popularity and accessibility of radio can reach beyond the masses to localised communities.

Cultural Competence in Australia: A Guide

FECCA's guide to help organisations and individuals improve cultural competence and cultural safety, taking into account the varying needs of different groups that arise from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and exploring the landscape of training programs that can develop better systems, policies and processes in the workplace.

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

An article from Dr Tim Soutphommasane, Race Discrimination Commissioner, on his experiences of discrimination, and how and why leaders should be actioning our organisations to reach harmony and stability in the workplace.

Cultural immersion for young people through dance

At Nigeria's prestigious Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Schools Festival, performers are required to present a dance from a different cultural group, fostering engagement and understanding across the nation’s 450-plus ethnicities.

“We want to accommodate these cultural and ethnic diversities and see how we can harness them for our growth and the unity of Nigeria” - Makama Shekwo’aga, Festival Curator

Cultural Responsibility

This article analyses, in the context of Norway, questions about what it means to democratise culture and what role institutions have to play in this. It looks at frameworks of cultural responsibility and the challenges and failures the Arts Council Norway has faced in its "diversity" initiatives, and how it has recalibrated it goals in light of this.

Design Studio for Social Intervention's "Cultural tactics"

A paper introducing inclusive cultural tactics that expose and amplify some of the complexities of culture in order to dissect challenging social problems. Including US case studies, it shows how cultural tactics can act as leverage points for social justice.

Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity

A framework (also known as the 'Bennett scale') to describe how people experience and engage with cultural difference and become more competent intercultural communicators over time. Based on constructivist theory, the model offers six positions as a person's perception of cultural difference becomes more complex, moving from ethnocentrism to ethnorelativism.

The six stages are 'denial', 'defence', 'minimisation', 'acceptance', 'adaptation' and 'integration'.

Diversity and Inclusion 101 - Collecting Diversity Data

A guide which outlines the leading principles for undertaking respectful and inclusive diversity (D&I) data collection in order to obtain genuine, meaningful data. This guide is exclusively for DCA member organisations.

Diamond: The Third Cut

Report on the third year of Diamond, the world’s first industry-wide collaborative data collection system for monitoring diversity in broadcasting from the UK's Creative Diversity Network.

Diamond accumulated 30,000 responses looking into all forms of diversity. It found that Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation on-screen is 23% compared to the UK national figure of 14%. However, BAME people remain absent from many senior creative roles.

Dismantling Racism Works - Action Tools

A selection of action tools developed in the US including the role of change teams and caucuses in race equity work, giving feedback, race equity principles for taking action, and a race equity tool for organisations in developing explicit goals.

Dismantling Racism Works - Analysis Tools

A selection of analysis tools and definitions developed in the US including race equity stages, dynamics of denial and desistance - including tactics of privilege and resistance, effective problem solving, how a movement is built, and the 'Barriers and Bridges' principles.

Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema

This toolkit is a practical guide for improving the experiences of POC (people of colour) audiences, staff and filmmakers – and other intersections including gender, sexuality, disability, income and class — to create lasting change for future generations and sustain your organisation in a meaningful way.

Diverse Book Finder

Focused on Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities in the US, this tool allows libraries to upload their catalogue of children's books for an analysis of the representation of different cultures. Crucially this is not only about WHO is represented, but also HOW they are represented, eg, as 'folklore' type tales, as stories of oppression and resilience, or if diverse characters are presented as living lives that are identical or interchangeable with another cultural group.

Diverse Futures: The Pathways Forward panel

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards hosts a Change Maker discussion, tabling case studies of organisations that apply community based models to inclusion as we work towards celebrating a more diverse future in the screen industry and beyond.

Diversity: A Critical Engagement

London-based filmmaker Nasheed Qamar Faruqi has created a resource where cultural professionals can find information about the history and associations of the most common words that we encounter in relation to racial and ethnic diversity.

Diversity and equal opportunities in television and radio

A UK TV and radio broadcast standards agency, Ofcom present their report for 2020 with key findings on the diversity of the broadcasters they regulate, including the UK’s major eight TV and radio organisations. Ofcom chart the huge impact of Covid-19 and 2020’s anti-racism protests on those broadcasters’ approach to increasing workforce diversity in the future, and outline how they as an organisation will support the industry to become more diverse.

Diversity and Inclusion Learning from Diversity Council Australia

The Diversity Council Australia offers a suite of diversity and inclusion learning solutions including face to face and e-learning options.

Diversity & Inclusion on Boards

Sue Woodford-Hollick OBE talks talks about her own personal experiences as a trustee and Chair of numerous volunteer boards and as a director in the arts and cultural sector.

Diversity Assessment Framework

Under the British Council's Diversity Assessment Framework, each country office must report and provide examples and evidence against 10 indicators of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). The examples must show that EDI is embedded and internalised, both within the internal practices of the organisation and in its external projects. The evidence is assessed every two years by internal and external reviewers, as well as being scored centrally by the British Council Equity Unit.

Diversity & Inclusion Infrastructure Councils DBP Research Request

A report on the allocation of staff and financial resources to diversity and inclusion (D&I) functions from a benchmarking study of finance, healthcare and insurance companies. D&I spend per employee for member organisations varied widely from $12.50 to $250. Includes line categories for the D&I budget, and examples of diversity goals, as well as information on developing a D&I council.

'More than half of the companies benchmarked allocate approximately 2-3% of their overall budget to D&I.'

Does the Museum Model Work?

Can art museums break away from their original purpose as a 'civilising' influence to be redefined as spaces that actually serve the communities in which they reside? The article includes quotes from former Queens Museum President and Executive Director Laura Raicovich and Chaédria LaBouvier, the first black curator and black woman to organize an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, who spoke out about being sidelined in the promotion of the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit she curated.

Doing Research Inclusively

These Guidelines for Co-Producing Research with People with Disability, while focused on doing research with people with lived experience of disability, offer leading practice in inclusive research and collaboration. It offers six principles of co-production and strategies and tools for implementation.

.eleven

A collective of Muslim Australian contemporary art practitioners.

Embracing diversity through food in multicultural Malaysia

In Malaysia, Arts-ED’s ‘You Think You Can Masak’ (‘Cook’) program bring together young people to learn about their own, their friends’ and their community’s cultural beliefs and practices through food.

"One of the program’s main goals was to highlight the similarities, not just the differences, in the variety of dishes and cooking styles through shared ingredients."

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

The British Council's global EDI Strategy, featuring three main objectives: an inclusive organisational culture; developing capability and leaders; and performance, impact and legal compliance, as well as key tools for achieving this.

Equality Monitoring at the British Council

An introduction to the British Council's Equality Monitoring program, and the reasons for undertaking it, and tips for carrying out equality monitoring.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The British Council's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Strategy.

"Our work is based on building meaningful, enduring and respectful relationships across different cultures. We cannot do this without a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion."

Ethics and engagement in community art

A discussion of the difficulties of getting engagement right, particularly in rural communities. "An ethics of mutual learning and openness" must offer not just "representation, but also ownership". Shuvangi Khadka adds "outside artists must remain open to their own vision being radically changed via community critique."

Fostering Inclusive Success

Dahlia Books is an independent press based in Leicester that champions regional and diverse voices and provides a platform for original fiction and writers who are ignored by the mainstream.

Their leading programme is The Middle Way Mentoring Programme, a two-year professional development project that supports Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers. The program helps participants to examine the craft and the journey a writer needs to take to be published and become a professional creative.

Gari Yala: Centreing the experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians at work

Gari Yala, which means ‘speak the truth’ in the Wiradjuri language, is based on a survey 1,033 First Nations workers across Australia. The report reveals Indigenous employees continue to experience significant workplace racism and exclusion and that racism is impacting wellbeing and job satisfaction.

The report also provides 'ten truths' for organisations to improve workplace inclusion for Indigenous staff.

Gari Yala: Centring the experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians at work

This piece of research provides a firsthand understanding of the diversity of Indigenous workers’ experiences in the workplace. Named 'Gari Yala' – which means ‘speak the truth’ in Wiradjuri language – it also provides 'ten truths' organisations must understand to improve workplace inclusion for Indigenous staff.

Gary Foley: Advice for white Indigenous activists in Australia

First Nations historian, activist and leader, Gary Foley, explains the do's and don't's of white activism.

'If people are serious about wanting to become involved in the struggle for justice, the first thing you need to do is not go and talk to any blackfellas at all, really, you need to look in the mirror - you need to look at yourself, you need to look at yourself, you need to think hard and fast about who you are and make sure you haven't got psychological identity problems of your own.'

Grant Making with a Racial Equity Lens

Toolkit for philanthropists with interviews, examples, case studies and worksheets.

"Drawing on firsthand experiences, the guide offers advice on promoting and deepening your foundation's commitment to racial equity, both internally and in the programs you support.

Horizontal Development: Equitable Development for City-Makers

A toolkit featuring interviews, case studies and activities to introduce "Horizontal Development," a new American urban development approach that centres the margins, highlights diversity, celebrates place and is accountable to those impacted by the racist and classist policies by cities.

How Australia’s top companies do diversity right

A light article on how 6 of the best companies in Australia are actively working towards doing diversity right — and how they put their words into action, from the development of effective partnerships, diverse hiring through to measurement and tackling bias.

How Does Constructing Partnerships With Black Business Advance Diversity And Inclusion?

Carmen Morris, founder of a bespoke diversity consultancy, discusses the merits and methods of bringing black-owned businesses into your organisation's supply chain. Morris outlines how black-owned consultancies can help your organisation begin partnering and adopting more equitable processes for an authentic diversity and inclusion agenda. Audio option available.

How intersectionality can help storytellers

Pearl Tan and Priya A Roy give a useful primer on intersectionality and explain how intersectional approaches can make for better stories and a more diverse industry.

While it deals primarily with the screen industry, it breaks down the concept of intersectionality into its historical roots and explores structural, political, and representational intersectionality - and what this means.

How the Art of Social Practice Is Changing the World, One Row House at a Time

Artist Rick Lowe transformed derelict houses over 20 years into a thriving, African American cultural hub that preserves the community's roots. It is both a work of art and an act of community organising.

How to achieve a diverse candidate pool with inclusive job ads

To attract diverse candidates, a well-phrased job ad is a must. From a linguist's perspective, Kyle Snyder identifies 6 different types of inclusion to consider, with practical tips for each.

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Video in which Ibram X. Kendi introduces his ground-breaking book 'How to be an Antiracist'.

How to be Anti-Racist in the Arts

What does it mean to be an ally to people of colour? What does it mean to remove blackface from our streaming services? And what can the creative sector do to advance racial equity?

Diversity Arts Australia and the British Council launched the Creative Equity Toolkit with this timely conversation in partnership with Sydney Opera House.

How to Bring Your Cultural Identity to Work

Minority employees who share their race, ethnicity or nationality in meaningful ways with colleagues at work can lead to greater inclusivity and respect, according to research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The study found that rich cultural-identity expression that moves beyond superficial discussions to reveal parts of the inner self connected to one’s cultural identity fosters closeness and increases the majority group’s learning.

How to Build a Diverse and Inclusive Culture in the Workplace

A direct article which addresses the impacts of theMe Too movement,Black Lives Matter, the Harvey Weinstein scandal and other major events, and takes you straight to how to develop a healthy company culture, and bring diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

How To Co-Create: Practical Lessons From The Field

Co-creation can be misused, and the various risks that come with co-creation are explored in this guide. Alongside this are tips for using ethical methods that can help to reap the benefits of shared power and authorship. This guide warns against generic solutions, stating that local, societal factors must always be taken into account.

How to Do Pay Equity Analysis for Gender and Race

Many firms publish gender and ethnicity pay gap data; but for true diversity, workplaces need to make their audits intersectional. This resource from We All Count explains the basics of intersectional gender and racial pay equity audits.

How to Handle Cultural Misunderstandings at Work

An article introducing strategies to manage cultural shock in the workplace and tips on altering office procedures. It also discusses methods such as active listening; and moving from a fixed mindset to an open and curious one.

How to navigate the racial trauma your employees may be experiencing

Interview in which Farrah Harris (psychotherapist and workplace wellness champion) lays out steps to creating a psychologically safe environment for employees.

How to Reimagine the World - Collaboration Principles for Artists & Social Justice Organizers

A breakdown of principles for creative collaboration and social justice covering inclusion, wellbeing, power, valuation, relationship building, methodology and cooperation.

How 'white fragility' reinforces racism

Robin DiAngelo unpacks her book White Fragility with clips and examples from movies and TV.

'I am not going to get to where I need to go from a place of white comfort. I'm going to have to get mighty uncomfortable in order to challenge that.'

Hyphenated-Projects

Melbourne-based platform for artists with transcultural practices and a collective that presents, collaborates and develops new ideas. The collective was founded after presenting a survey exhibition of Asian-Australian artists in Victoria at The Substation titled Hyphenated (2018).

Implicit Bias Module Series

Online course aimed at educators to understand and mitigate against unconscious bias.

Inc Arts Unlock - Anti-racism toolkit

The Unlock toolkit is a free comprehensive resource aimed at arts organisations. It contains over 100 actions that will help creative workplaces become more inclusive, and focuses on hiring, leadership, work and care.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Accessibility Statement (IDEA)

The Australian and New Zealand's Games industries trade association's committment to a non-discriminatory approach and providing equal opportunity for employment and advancement in all departments, programs, and worksites. They commit to advocacy and policy work, and change organisational culture in the industry, with a list of actionable items.

Inclusive meetings’ nuts and bolts

A comprehensive infographic guide on how to host inclusive, multilingual meetings and events developed by a Quebec-based not-for-profit leading numerous projects on anti-oppression in community organisations.

Inclusive Pathways Framework

Report for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School looking at barriers to inclusion and ways to combat them.

'A key support that several consultees for this project mentioned was tracking opportunities for career progression and making them known to aspirants to kindle ambitions and find ways to address barriers.'

'There is a tendency in Australian arts practice to confine under-represented practitioners to ‘community arts’ rather than mainstream, professional content development. '

Inclusive Recruitment Checklist

A refugee inclusivity checklist. This Checklist is designed to help recruiters and employers address the barriers that refugees face when restarting their careers in the UK. It includes information and tips on advertising, interviewing and onboarding.

Inclusive Recruitment - Definition

Inclusive recruitment is the process of connecting with, interviewing, and hiring a diverse set of individuals through valuing different backgrounds and opinions. Full content is restricted to DCA members.

Inclusive Recruitment Guide: UK Theatre / Society of London Theatre

This downloadable guide will help you write a more inclusive job pack, remove bias from your selection processes, and decide where to post your job ads to reach a wider talent pool.

Indigenous Cultural Protocols and the Arts

Case studies in multiple art forms of how arts organisations have implemented the landmark Creative Australia Indigenous Protocols, developed in 2002 to ensure Indigenous culture is used ethically and legally with appropriate consultation and consent, according to both Australian copyright law and Indigenous cultural protocols.

Includes question prompts for developing project methodology to ensure respect and consent when making art that draws on another community's culture.

Indigenous Recruitment Guide

A practical manual with best-practice principles to encourage the recruitment of Indigenous people into the Australian Public Service.

Topics covered in this toolkit include: attracting talent, cultural competency, utilising Indigenous assessors, cultural safety and consideration of language.

I've been tempted by righteous anger against racists. It's not much help in changing society

A call to move the focus of the racial equity debate away from individual racism and towards structural racism.

'Blaming people may feel good but it won’t lead to structural change. There has to be a middle ground: of asking people to take responsibility and to step up as allies without alienating them by telling them how terrible they are first.'

Jumbunna: Strong Voices Stronger Communities: First Nations media employment and skills development

This report outlines a suggested employment and skills strategy for Australia’s First Nations Broadcasting and Media Sector. It promotes the need for skills development through regular traineeships, fellowships, exchanges, as well as a focus on getting cultural safety right.

Kari Foundation: Indigenous Employment

KARI's established indigenous community network powers their effective employment and mentorship program. In partnership with the government, specialist KARI mentors build strong relationships with both line managers and employees in the workplace, ensuring long-term careers not just jobs. KARI is an indigenous-led organisation.

Language Matters: Glossary of Terms

A comprehensive glossary of terms and phrases used in the diversity, equity and inclusion space, from an American group.

Language of Domination: Oppressive Meeting Dynamics

A list that outlines different ways that oppressive dynamics can play out in meetings and in organisations, with a focus on white/ male domination. Shared by a Quebec-based not-for-profit leading numerous projects on anti-oppression in community organisations.

Learning pattern: Centering Marginalised Knowledge

Developed by “Whose Knowledge?,” a global campaign recentering marginalised knowledges online, this "learning pattern" is designed for those who want to support marginalised communities add to Wikimedia projects. It offers critical questions, suggestions, and examples from experiences to illustrate lessons.

Letter from BIPOC Collective to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

After a racist incident at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, BIPOC (Black and Indigenous people of Color) staff wrote a frank and insightful letter to the leadership team with a list of key demands to bring racial justice and diversity to the institution.

Letting the Movement Decide

A report evaluating FRIDA’s impact that documents a funding model designed to promote emerging leadership, respond to changing realities, offer transparency, shift philanthropic power dynamics, and function as a learning and knowledge development hub for broader feminist and philanthropic communities.

Justice Funders

A blog series featuring stories by thought leaders contributing to justice transitions in philanthropy. Designed to inspire the US sector to re-imagine and practice a new kind of philanthropy that redistributes wealth, democratises power and shifts economic control to communities.

Living Music Report

Survey of programming in Australian Major Performing Arts Organisations in 2019, measuring the diversity of the repertoire of Australia's largest orchestras.

Out of the 2006 works performed across 2019:

'3% were written by female composers
9% were written by Australian composers
19% were written by living composers
0.45% were written by CALD Australian composers
0.05% were written by First Nations composers'

Managing Cultural Diversity: Training Manual

This training document aims to enable small and medium enterprises to better understand cultural diversity and how to manage it effectively to improve workplace relationships, teamwork, productivity, market knowledge, community relationships, customer service and competitiveness.

Martin Parr steps down as artistic director of Bristol Photo Festival

After an 18-month campaign by Mercedes Baptiste Halliday, Magnum photographer Martin Parr steps down from his festival director role after failing to notice racist depictions in a photography book he edited.

'the photographer said he was “ashamed of my association with the book”, writing: “I must have seen the spread in question, but not logged its implication, an oversight that I deeply regret.”'

Maxine Beneba Clarke talks about her new book The Hate Race

Australian author and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke speaks about her memoir The Hate Race.

'I felt that it was important to write The Hate Race. I felt there was a gap in Australian history in terms of migration stories, particularly coming out of the 70s, 80s and 90s, post White Australia Policy. So I wanted to be able to tell the story of what that time was like growing up as a young child of colour in the Australian suburbs.'

Mini IP Toolkit - Considerations Checklist

While not designed for arts projects, this checklist for commercial collaborations from Intellectual Property Australia attempts to ensure that major drivers and interests of all parties are understood and catered for in a collaboration contract. A hand one-page checklist to help make resources, IP and power structures explicit.

Mitigating Bias in Performance Management

This Deloitte article presents methods for challenging unconscious bias - and therefore systemic discrimination - in employee performance management. Case studies included.

More inclusive recruitment

A filmed event on Employability Day 2021 in the UK, at which employers, refugee professionals and sector partners share ideas and experiences about making recruitment processes more inclusive to refugees. A valuable and nuanced resource for leaders interested in diverse and inclusive employment and governance, with a focus on refugee professionals.

More Than a Moment Pledge

A pledge and process from a collection of West Midlands, UK organisations to ensure equity, investment in, and opportunities with and for Black artists and creatives within their organisation’s culture and work. There is a particular focus on checklists and strategy for governance and organisational culture.

New racial equity framework to hold tech companies accountable to racial justice commitments

Color Of Change is an online racial justice organization. They aim to "move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America." This is their racial equity framework designed for Tech companies, but with much transferable insight for the arts and media sector.

No Straight Lines

An interactive online publication, guide and practical resource prepared by a world-leading participatory grantmaking and capacity-building fund to share recommendations and engage other INGOs and funders in dialogue on how to work with young feminist organisers for transformation.

Nonprofit Executives and the Racial Leadership Gap: A Race to Lead Brief

This report explores the gaps between not-for-profit executive leaders of color and white leaders, and compares executives to staff in the US. It features findings from the Race to Lead survey of 4000+ across the American sector, including a secondary consultation focused on executives.

Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging

A report outlining ‘a cultural strategy for belonging’ that centres the leadership, voices, storytelling, practices, and knowledge of marginalised peoples and communities in America. Offers resources, evidence, case studies, and a workshop module aimed at artists, organisers, cultural strategists, funders, among others.

Open Diversity Data

Links to published diversity data for a range of mostly tech-based organisations, including AirBnb, Facebook, Netflix and Twitter.

'Companies already collect data about their employee demographics. Let's ask them to publish it. Open diversity data will make it easier for everyone to better understand the diversity landscape and work toward solutions.'

Oscars Announce New Inclusion Requirements for Best Picture Eligibility

Representation standards will apply to the Oscars from 2022. Films nominated for Best Picture must meet two out of four Academy Inclusion Standards, which address race, gender, LGBTQ+ and disability.

'In 2016, after they failed to nominate any person of color among their 20 acting nominees, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who was Academy President at the time, took historic action by committing to doubling the number of women and diverse members by 2020, which they have achieved.'

Other peoples’ stories

Wiradjuri writer, teacher and academic Jeanine Leane ponders questions of representation and who had the right to tell another person's story.

'if non-Indigenous people are still only encountering Indigenous people via the works of non-Indigenous writers/historians/filmmakers/artists, then are they really encountering us at all?'

Our anti-racism statement

A statement from the UK's Film and TV Charity, acknowledging that they have not done enough to recognise racism in the screen sector, and that it has affected their ability to provide support to everybody working behind the scenes in film and TV. The statement is a commitment of intent to be an anti-racist organisation and demonstrates this by allocating resources. A useful template to help leaders to set organisational mission statements.

Our routes: Women's node - an illustrated journey of women in community network

An illustrated reflection and guide on the experiences of women in male-dominated technological community networks. Documenting contributions from intimate womens’ circles alongside checklists and infograpthics, it addresses barriers and opportunities in education, partnership, and empowerment for building and leading community networks.

"Our Stories, Our Knowledges" resource series

A resource series for marginalised communities working on knowledge production, featuring stories, lessons, tools and tips. Part 1: Decolonising Our Stories and Knowledges, Part 2: Transformative Practices for Building Community Knowledges, Part 3: Adding Our Knowledge to Wikipedia, Part 4: How to Ally and Be a Good Guest.

Out of Context #5: Appreciation vs. Appropriation of Cultural Musical Objects

A 10-part series that addresses the topic of cultural appropriation as it intersects with both Western European-based classical music and the broader social landscape.

'I do not doubt [John] Cage’s sincerity with his use of the I Ching, and his emersion into Zen and Japanese culture was probably deep and profound. But in a world where we celebrate the ideas of individual geniuses like John Cage, how do we also acknowledge the source communities for these ideas?'

Participatory Grantmaking Aims to Dismantle Power Imbalances between Funders and Communities

An interview with Urban Institute fellow Jasmine Johnson about participatory grant making. It provides insights into some of these knowledge gaps through a qualitative study of 10 funders in small, midsize, and large cities across the USA. Johnson gives key takeaways from her study in this interview, three things to consider before adopting participatory grant making and the challenges of using this funding model.

Podcast: The Black Woman’s Guide to Philanthropy

A podcast focusing on black women in philanthropy. Features the co-founder of BlackHer - an online platform inspiring Black women changemakers, an impact investing expert, CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and co-Director of the Donors of Color Network.

Policy change at Darlinghurst Theatre Company

Darlinghurst Theatre Company in Sydney makes a public commitment to:

'having, at minimum, 50% of all artists in our employ, every year, belonging to an Indigenous, Black or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse community and to having diversity of representation across our season and programming. This will include employment of playwrights, actors, directors and designers.'

Portes Ouvertes: Developing an Anti-Oppression Policy - Some things to keep in mind

A short guide and checklist for developing an anti-oppression policy in your community organisation. Developed by a Quebec-based anti-oppression leader, it covers assessing organisational strengths, identifying areas for improvement and where to focus trainings.

Power and Privilege in the 21st Century Museum

This accessible publication shares tactics for change emerging from the US Museums Association (MA) Transformers programme. It covers commentary from the MA community, and offers practical guidance for people who want to work in a more inclusive way in the sector.

Power Moves: Your essential philanthropy assessment guide for equity and justice

A comprehensive self-assessment toolkit from the US, that helps funders determine how well you are building, sharing and wielding power and identify ways to transform your programs and operations for lasting, equitable impact and justice.

#PowerShifts Resources: Reclaiming Representation

The introductory post to a blog series by Oxfam’s ‘From Poverty to Power’ offering stories, projects and resources addressing blindspots in development work, and how to make power shifts happen. Features a special focus on other ways of telling stories and decolonising knowledge.

Practicing Equity: Activating Oppositional Consciousness from the Margin

A short article outlining how oppositional consciousness can be thought of as a technology that marginalised leaders can develop and practice in order to create strategies to navigate and reconfigure power while resisting its dysfunctions.

PWC Global Diversity & Inclusion Survey

A toolkit and survey you can take based on PwC’s multi-year, global, cross-industry survey. It explores what diversity and inclusion programs organisations have in place, and the impact they are having on employee experience.

Race and Ethnic Diversity: a deep dive into Diamond data

According to the Creative Diversity Network: 'This report presents data on ethnic and racial representation across seniority, genres – both on and off-screen – and job roles.'

The report gives tangible industry next steps and a road map to work on delivering racial equity in the television sector in the UK.

Race Equality Guide

The British Council's guide to good practice in racial equality. It identifies racism and the ways in which it manifests globally; addresses the ways in which race and ethnicity sit within the Council's approach to equality, diversity and inclusion, and sets out actions and case studies for change, such as challenging stereotypes, addressing under-representation and communicating inclusion.

Race Forward: Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity

"Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity contains a variety of tools that emerged from Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in arts organizations."

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

Drawing from the Race to Lead survey of 4000+ across the American not-for-profit sector, this report engages an intersectional analysis to examine how women of colour encounter more systemic obstacles than white women and men of colour in the sector.

Racial Equity Tools: Collecting Data

This resource includes tools, tips, and examples about data, including: potential sources for the kinds of data helpful in assessing racial equity work, methods for securing quality data, and some of the challenges of using existing databases.

Racial Equity Tools Glossary

The Racial Equity Tools Glossary defines a wide range of terms used in work to achieve racial equity and racial justice at every level, including board and senior management in systems, organisations and communities.

Racism in the arts – reform or revolution?

An article discussing creating safe spaces, with a link to a panel where a group of creatives speak about institutionalised racism in the arts — and offer solutions.

Racism in the UK film industry: what needs to change, and who needs to change it?

Six workers in and around UK film discuss racial inequality - and what is needed in terms of meaningful workplace changes in the screen sector.

Racism. It Stops With Me

Australian Human Rights Commission campaign and guide on how to conduct a conversation about racism, along with videos and other resources.

'The tips and conversation questions in this guide have been developed based on consideration of Australian and international research on anti-racism strategies, current Australian Human Rights Commission education resources and training guides, and human rights education principles and pedagogies.'

Racism. No Way: Glossary of terms

A comprehensive glossary of diversity, equity and inclusion terms and phrases from an Australian group.

Re-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process

A tool that provides effective strategies to intervene in ways that expand and empower collective work for racial equity in arts organisations, including sections on how to make your grant panel, application forms, recruitment process and board more racially diverse. It also includes a concise glossary of terms.

Register of Cultural Awareness Training Providers

A regularly updated directory of South Australia's cultural awareness training providers. All principal presenters are Indigenous.

Reimagining the Internship to Promote Racial Equity

An article analysing and giving perspective on how internships can promote racial equity and how it should be part of diversity, inclusion and equity efforts.

It also looks into gateway barriers and gives tips on how to create an inclusive internship program.

Remixing Europe: unveiling the imagery of migrants in European media

Available via free download, this book examines imageries of migrants in European media. Produced out of ‘Remapping Europe, A Remix Project Highlighting the Migrant’s Perspective,’ it explores concepts, tools, and case studies to re-view, re-investigate and re-consider prevailing imageries of migrants.

Requirements of funded organisations

Arts Council England (ACE) funded organisations in bands 1-3 are monitored against the Creative Case for Diversity, ACE’s initiative on diversity in arts, arts leadership and audiences. These monitoring prompts include appendices which outline the indicators used to monitor performance against the Creative Case for Diversity and the evidence used to establish the indicators gathered through the organisation’s activity, ACE’s contact with the organisation and its annual report.