Earlier this month, the Diversity Allies Leadership Committee met for the first time. In this blog, Richard Wragg joins us to give an update on their discussions and plans for the future. As some of you will know, the Diversity Allies Group was initially formed to undertake and then review and promote training around diversity […]
The background Like many archives, here at Hull University Archives (HUA) we’re very aware that our collections tend to centre the lives, voices and experiences of a limited section of the population – that is to say, male, white, and middle to upper class. We’re also aware that, historically, cataloguing practice tended to reinforce this, […]
Zoe van Well, Archivist at Worcestershire County Council, introduce the work by ARA’s Diversity Allies on Collection Development Policies and Representation. Diversity and inclusion can mean different things to individuals so it’s worth remembering a breadth of diversity and inclusion is represented in the protected characteristics within the Equality Act 2010 and we can have […]
In this post from ARA’s Diversity Allies, Philip Milnes-Smith, explores the work of the Diversity Allies in the context of the recent UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report. The headlines from the recent report from the UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, and the circumstances of its release, have both generated a […]