Creative Equity Toolkit

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.

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.

Intercultural Collaboration and the Responsibilities of Representation: Dalisa Pigram

Yawuru and Bardi woman Dalisa Pigram is the Co-Artistic Director of dance company Marrugeku.

'Working with those Elders and with other artists at a young age, you develop a sense of responsibility. Best practice is to accept that responsibility – where you sit in the group.'

'We did this as a collective – it wasn’t one person at the front telling everybody what to do... it was 'listen to these people who hold that story and everybody brings their strength to work out the best way.'

Jordan’s National Centre for Culture and Arts

The National Centre for Culture and Arts of King Hussein Foundation (NCCA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation. Its objective is to incorporate performing arts in all levels of education, to encourage change in creativity and humanitarian values and cross-cultural understanding and to bring about social change. NCCA has been a pioneer in the development of dance and theatre in Jordan and in the region.

Looking beyond the horizon: How CIOs can embed DEI into succession planning

Guideposts and principles to help CIOs transform their succession-planning efforts to better prepare and promote a truly diverse slate of new leaders

'executives frequently struggle to pass the baton to diverse candidates: Companies often haven’t built diverse networks or recruited talent that more closely resembles a broader multidimensional workforce.'

Navigating culture in the workplace with Professor Nareen Young

"Organisations don't do things because it's the nice thing to do...change happens when we put pressure on": In this episode of the Voices of Australia podcast, Professor Nareen Young discusses how Australian workplaces can become more diverse and inclusive. Nareen is Professor for Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Workforce Diversity at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology Sydney.