Leading Libraries Series: Leading for Inclusion
Challenges to inclusive practice
Resource list
Web accessible articles
A useful set of tools and resources on inclusion covering aspects like unconscious bias and micro-inequities, created by the University of Sussex Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research - free to use in your workplace. The CHEER Toolkit.
A summary of the history of ideas around equality, diversity and inclusion, with a useful focus on the UK workplace from the Arbitration and Conciliation Service, ACAS. Improving equality, diversity and inclusion in your workplace.
A thoughtful piece by a white, male writer about coming to terms with his own unconscious prejudices, 'White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not' by Robin D'Angelo for the Guardian
A straightforward article on the phenomenon of in-groups and out-groups and tips on how to avoid exclusionary behaviour – Susan Krauss Whitbourne at Psychology Today. 'In-groups, out-groups and the psychology of crowds'
A brief article about the phenomenon of 'covering' in the workplace, created for Deloitte with a link to their research report on how covering affects the search for talent. Inclusion survey: Uncovering Talent
A class divided by Dr Marilyn Field gives a more recent take on Jane Elliot’s work around how in-group beliefs create prejudice
Videos and podcasts
A fascinating series of videos and personal accounts of people's experiences of exclusion in UK society, created for the UK Parliament series '#yourstoryourhistory' – great for anyone who wants to understand more about people who have different experience of life in the UK
'I can't be racist' – an informative listen on conscious and unconscious bias produced by the BBC with psychologist, Dr Keon West who interviews a range of experts on
the subject
June Sarpong, author on diversity looks at the challenges faced by people living with a disability in their working lives - Diversity with June Sarpong: why are people living with disabilities overlooked by business?
A hard-hitting Tedx talk by Helen Turnbull on the challenges of creating an inclusive organisation, covering psychological and political aspects - Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion and Collusion
A class divided takes a closer look at Jane Elliot’s work around how in-group beliefs create prejudice
Recommended books
An in-depth look at how bias and stereotyping affect our ability to be genuinely inclusive 'Diversify: how to challenge inequality and why we should' by June Sarpong, London: HQ, 2019
A wide ranging pool of resources on antiracist education from the publisher Routledge – Educating for Black Lives
Module materials
Slide pack: Challenges to inclusive practices
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This is the second of a set of four Leading for Inclusion modules within the Leading Libraries Series.
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