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.

UNESCO - Diversity of Cultural Expressions - 5 Principles in Australian Arts

UNESCO's Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression is a legally-binding international agreement that ensures artists, cultural professionals, practitioners and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and enjoy a broad range of cultural goods, services and activities. Australia became a signatory in 2009.

This short film offers five principles and case study examples that nurture the diversity of cultural expressions.

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.