Creative Equity Toolkit

Unconscious Bias Training

The British Independent Film Awards offers a training program to all votes and jurors to help them recognise and mitigate against potential bias based on genre, budget, commerciality, reputation or the gender and race of key creatives or lead actors.

This training is supported by ScreenSkills using National Lottery funds awarded by the BFI.

Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?

A look at the theory underpinning the concept of unconscious bias, which formed the basis of the Guardian's Bias in Britain series. It looks at whether unconscious bias is truly unconscious, and evidence that unconscious bias training can actually have a damaging effect on diversity and inclusion.

Unconscious Bias: What is unconscious bias?

This article and video gives a very clear definition of unconscious bias.

Unravelling the Concept of Unconscious Bias

Analysis of the development of the concept of 'unconscious bias', and the shift of culpability for racism from institutions and structures into the unconscious.

What do terms like systemic racism, microaggression and white fragility mean?

A glossary for anti-racism, including 'systemic racism', 'structural racism', 'institutional racism', 'white privilege', 'white fragility', 'microagressions' and 'white-splaining'.

'white fragility supports racism because it shifts the power dynamic in an insidious way...All of a sudden, the conversation becomes less about what the person of color experienced, but the white person's reaction, and, in so doing, is an attempt to undercut the validity of the person of color's experience.'