Developing Inclusive Practice: Unconscious Bias Workshop

Price: £50 CIfA members and group members
£60 non-members

Limited bursary/low income spaces are available
Please contact Elizabeth (elizabeth.durst@archaeologists.net) for more information.

Description

It is essential that we work together as a sector to develop inclusive practice. In order to do this we need to learn to examine, confront and counteract behaviours, micro-behaviours and issues that perpetuate exclusion and inhibit us from becoming an inclusive and diverse profession. This CPD session and workshop will be delivered in two parts. 

The first half of the session will address ‘unconscious bias’; what it is, how it works, the impact of unconscious bias, and the actions we can implement within our specific roles to facilitate and work towards culture change. Our training partner Business in the Community has designed a bespoke session that will focus on issues specific to the sector.

The second half of the session is an interactive work shop building on the Unconscious Bias Training to look at archaeology and ‘decolonisation’. This is an issue that is being addressed throughout academia and the wider heritage profession. The workshop will form the beginning of a consultative process; examining current archaeological practice to produce a ‘Decolonising Toolkit’. This toolkit will be translatable to all aspects of archaeology, academia and the profession (community engagement, archives, buildings archaeology, fieldwork, local government, research, etc).

Featured presenters: Hayley Bennet (Business in the Community)

Business in the Community (BIC) is a business-led membership organisation dedicated to responsible business. They were created nearly 40 years ago by HRH The Prince of Wales to champion responsible business. BIC inspire, engage and challenge members and non-members to create a skilled, inclusive workforce today and for the future. BIC offer expert-led training programmes drawing on their professional experience and impact stories from across their membership to give participants skills and information that they are unlikely to gain elsewhere.

Agenda - TBC

About Equality and Diversity Group

The CIfA Equality and Diversity group works to support and develop best practice strategies for challenging the inequalities in gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability that currently exist within the profession. Our work as a group to date has led to a statement issued by CIfA, FAME and Prospect acknowledging that bullying, harassment and discrimination exist within the profession, and that addressing these issues requires a change in culture so that we prevent the loss of talented professionals from the sector and enhance our ability to recruit the archaeologists of the future.

Additional info

Lunch will not be included with registration.