Creative Equity Toolkit

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Creative Workforce Scoping Study

The Creative Workforce Scoping Study is a groundbreaking piece of research that distils knowledge of long-standing workforce issues in the creative sector, along with new data on how contemporary labour, technical and economic challenges are impacting the creative workforce in Australia.

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  • 3 minute
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  • Published: 2025
    Country: Australia

  • Author: Creative Australia, Service and Creative Skills Australia (SaCSA) 

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Culture Change Toolkit: How to collect and use diversity data

Tips on collecting and using diversity data, and not asking for data that is not required. Case study on how diversity data has revealed areas for improvement for one organisation - Sound and Music.

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  • 5 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: UK

  • Author: Arts Council England

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Diamond

A precise and standardised system for gathering, tracking and publishing diversity data on the UK screen sector, used by BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. Diamond collects data about the gender; gender identity; age; ethnicity; sexual orientation and disability of people working on or off screen on all UK-originated productions using voluntary participant surveys.

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  • 2 minute
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  • Published: 2018
    Country: UK

  • Author: Creative Diversity Network

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Diamond Project Review

Since 2018, the Creative Diversity Network's Diamond research have highlighted the lack of diversity in senior roles, especially the roles of writer and director. This report presents their headline findings on diversity among writers, directors and producer directors working in UK television, focusing on representation by gender, disability, age, race and ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

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  • 32 minute
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  • Published: 2023
    Country: UK

  • Author: Creative Diversity Network

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EDI assessment tool

In collaboration with Radius Networks, Ofcom have developed a new approach to collecting qualitative workforce data. It has three aims: to drive and monitor improvements to workforce diversity and inclusion; to understand the changing priorities of the broadcasting sector; and
to support learning, evaluation, and collaboration within the sector.

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2022
    Country: UK

  • Author: Ofcom, Radius Networks

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From margins to mainstream: API representation in Hollywood

Research by McKinsey and Company acknowledges that API representation in film and television has increased in the past two decades but notes that more than two-thirds of API consumers are dissatisfied with the level of authenticity of their on-screen representation.

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  • 15 minute
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  • Published: 2024
    Country: USA

  • Author: Kabir Ahuja, Michael Chui, Elaine Dang, Esther Lee, Joe Takai, Jackie Wong