What role do you play?

Discover your equity focus, what you should consider and resources to help you implement anti-racist practice throughout your work.

These role profiles form the second part of Dartington Service Design Lab's Anti-Racism Framework. Learn more about the full Framework here.

Who is this designed for? All those working on research and design.

How should I use it? This tool can be used by an individual or a group. It can be used before you have begun a particular project or at any point during the project. This tool can be used multiple times to help you refocus your anti-racist practice

How does it work? After answering a series of questions, your role and equity focus will be revealed. This is just the starting point. You will then be guided to a set of reflective questions designed to help you consider the actions needed to embed anti-racist practice in your work. Additional tools and resources are available to support this reflection, but the emphasis is on taking time to engage deeply with the questions and what they mean for your role and context.

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The Convenor brings diverse individuals, groups and organisations together. Your work has the potential to build trust, enable collaboration and create collective impact. You should reflect on where your approach sits on a spectrum from transactional to relational.

Your equity focus is: Inclusion, invitation and process equity.

You need to consider how to create inclusive spaces, how to enable trust across difference and what you can do to shape the conditions for equitable collaboration

Key questions to ask:

• Who is/isn't in the room? Who is invited/not invited?
• How might power dynamics across different axes shape how people turn up, contribute and benefit?
• Which voices tend to be heard?
• How has the group been prepared to come together?
• Who is accountable for taking actions and why?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Reciprocal Learner creates spaces for mutual learning, skills exchange, and capacity building between stakeholders, including yourself.

Your equity focus is: Mutual growth, critical reflection, and anti-hierarchical learning.

Consider how you will challenge knowledge hierarchies through mutual learning, unlearning, and co-development. Reflect on where your practice sits on a spectrum from traditional relationships and hierarchies through to mutual learning spaces.

Key questions to ask:
What are you sharing with/teaching to those who are contributing/participating/leading the work? What do they do/create themselves?
How can the wisdom of individuals and communities be valued and learnt from?
Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
How are you positioning yourself - as expert? Are you doing with or doing to?
Are you recreating racialised or other inequitable dynamics in doing so?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Youth and Community Champion works with young people and communities to centre their experiences, elevate their leadership, and improve services.

Your equity focus is: Power redistribution and authentic participation.

You need to consider how you can meaningfully redistribute power to young people and communities, ensuring voice and leadership. You should reflect on where your methods sit on a spectrum from manipulation/extraction through to redistribution of power.

Key questions to ask:

• Where are you operating on Hart’s ladder of participation/co-production or other similar frameworks?
• Are there places where you could/should aim to move up the ladder? How might you do this? What resources are needed?
• Who is involved/invited to participate? Who is missing?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How have you identified and responded to accessibility needs?
• Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
• What feedback loops and exit/next step strategies are in place?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Influencer for Anti-Racism leads thinking, practice, and partnerships to challenge inequities and drive inclusive change.

Your equity focus is: Power sharing, agenda setting, and transformative leadership.

You need to consider how you can hold power accountably and how can you shape systems and ideas in ways that centre justice and redistribute influence. You should consider where your motivations and leadership sit on a spectrum from merely wanting to gain credibility for your work to being for the benefit of children, young people and families most affected by inequities.

Key questions to ask:

• Who is accountable for taking actions and why?
• Who is benefiting from this?
• How are you positioning yourself  - as expert?
• Are you doing with or doing to?
• Are you recreating racialised and other inequitable dynamics in doing so?
• Has the appropriate power and level of influence been “assigned” to those with accountability for taking actions?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources

Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Researcher and Evaluator generates evidence to understand problems and surface insights. You may use a range of methods from traditional, to participatory to innovative methods. Your work has the potential to support services, drive improvements and appraise change.

Your equity focus is: How knowledge is created, whose knowledge counts and methodological justice.

You need to consider how you can design and conduct research and evaluation in ways that centre equity, redistribute power, and challenge dominant norms of knowledge and knowledge production.

Key questions to ask:

• What is considered/valued as evidence by key stakeholders? Why? And in what format?
• Who is missing from the existing evidence and that you are producing (e.g. in your sampling)? What bias does this create?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How does your own positionality shape the knowledge produced and how you see it? What are your blind spots?
• Is your approach extractive?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Designer designs and develops interventions, services, and strategies that are grounded in evidence, responsive to user needs, and capable of driving meaningful change through insight, iteration and collaboration.

Your equity focus is: Equitable Change and Co-creation

You need to consider how to design and develop interventions, services, and campaigns that are grounded in lived experience, informed by evidence, and co-created with communities to drive equitable change and challenge systemic racism. You should reflect your where your methods sit on a spectrum from tokenistic consultation to meaningful co-production.

Key questions to ask:

• What assumptions are you making about "service and/or intervention users", and where do these assumptions come from/what norms are they grounded in?
• Whose lived experience and cultural knowledge is driving the design of this service or intervention, and whose is left out?
• What power dynamics shape how decisions are made throughout the design process?
• Who is the service or intervention for, and who gets to define that?
• What is the existing evidence about inequities in access, uptake and outcomes of similar interventions?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Evidence Bringer synthesises robust, accessible, and context-specific evidence to support action, accountability, and change. You may do this as part of research and evaluation, but not necessarily.

Your equity focus is: Rigour, inclusion and justice in evidence generation

You need to consider how you can create and curate knowledge that reflects diverse experiences. Think about how you will acknowledge bias in the evidence-base, and challenge dominant notions of validity. You should reflect on where your methods sit on the spectrum from traditional evidence synthesis, production and curation to community rooted evidence learning.

Key questions to ask:

• What is considered/valued as evidence by key stakeholders? Why? And in what format?
• Who is missing from the evidence-base? What bias does this create?
• In what context and under what circumstances was the evidence created?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Mapper maps systems, actors, gaps, and opportunities to better understand evidence, systems, power and influence.

Your equity focus is: Visibility, structure, and how systems reproduce oppression/discrimination.

Consider how you can make power structures, systems, and marginalised actors or dynamics visible. How will you identify areas and opportunities for equitable change? Reflect on where your work sits on a spectrum from maintaining/improving existing systems that hold inequities in place to subverting, reimagining or dismantling those systems for real change.

Key questions to ask:

Who is/isn't in the room participating in mapping process? OR Whose perspective is this map representing?
Who holds power (formal, informal, relational, narrative) in this system?
Who benefits from how the system/map currently operates? Who is harmed?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The New View Revealer supports clients, partners and communities to imagine and shape different and potentially more equitable futures.

Your equity focus is: Imagination and inclusion/social justice in shaping the future.

You need to consider how to imagine just and inclusive futures that break from oppressive norms and create new possibilities. You should consider where your work sits on a spectrum from maintaining the status quo to community-led futures with differently imagined systems.

Key questions to ask:

• Who is involved/invited to think about this new future?
• Who will be able to participate in the future that we're trying to create? Are they involved/represented?
• What are the different agendas, assumptions/norms and interests of different stakeholders and how might they compete?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Reciprocal Learner creates spaces for mutual learning, skills exchange, and capacity building between stakeholders, including yourself.

Your equity focus is: Mutual growth, critical reflection, and anti-hierarchical learning.

Consider how you will challenge knowledge hierarchies through mutual learning, unlearning, and co-development. Reflect on where your practice sits on a spectrum from traditional relationships and hierarchies through to mutual learning spaces.

Key questions to ask:

What are you sharing with/teaching to those who are contributing/participating/leading the work? What do they do/create themselves?
How can the wisdom of individuals and communities be valued and learnt from?
Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
How are you positioning yourself - as expert? Are you doing with or doing to?
Are you recreating racialised or other inequitable dynamics in doing so?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Convenor brings diverse individuals, groups and organisations together. Your work has the potential to build trust, enable collaboration and create collective impact. You should reflect on where your approach sits on a spectrum from transactional to relational.

Your equity focus is: Inclusion, invitation and process equity.

You need to consider how to create inclusive spaces, how to enable trust across difference and what you can do to shape the conditions for equitable collaboration

Key questions to ask:

• Who is/isn't in the room? Who is invited/not invited?
• How might power dynamics across different axes shape how people turn up, contribute and benefit?
• Which voices tend to be heard?
• How has the group been prepared to come together?
• Who is accountable for taking actions and why?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources

Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Influencer for Anti-Racism leads thinking, practice, and partnerships to challenge inequities and drive inclusive change.

Your equity focus is: Power sharing, agenda setting, and transformative leadership.

You need to consider how you can hold power accountably and how can you shape systems and ideas in ways that centre justice and redistribute influence. You should consider where your motivations and leadership sit on a spectrum from merely wanting to gain credibility for your work to being for the benefit of children, young people and families most affected by inequities.

Key questions to ask:

Who is accountable for taking actions and why?
Who is benefiting from this?
How are you positioning yourself  - as expert?
Are you doing with or doing to?
Are you recreating racialised and other inequitable dynamics in doing so?
Has the appropriate power and level of influence been “assigned” to those with accountability for taking actions?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources

Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Youth and Community Champion works with young people and communities to centre their experiences, elevate their leadership, and improve services.

Your equity focus is: Power redistribution and authentic participation.

You need to consider how you can meaningfully redistribute power to young people and communities, ensuring voice and leadership. You should reflect on where your methods sit on a spectrum from manipulation/extraction through to redistribution of power.

Key questions to ask:

• Where are you operating on Hart’s ladder of participation/co-production or other similar frameworks?
• Are there places where you could/should aim to move up the ladder? How might you do this? What resources are needed?
• Who is involved/invited to participate? Who is missing?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How have you identified and responded to accessibility needs?
• Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
• What feedback loops and exit/next step strategies are in place?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Researcher and Evaluator generates evidence to understand problems and surface insights. You may use a range of methods from traditional, to participatory to innovative methods. Your work has the potential to support services, drive improvements and appraise change.

Your equity focus is: How knowledge is created, whose knowledge counts and methodological justice.

You need to consider how you can design and conduct research and evaluation in ways that centre equity, redistribute power, and challenge dominant norms of knowledge and knowledge production.

Key questions to ask:

• What is considered/valued as evidence by key stakeholders? Why? And in what format?
• Who is missing from the existing evidence and that you are producing (e.g. in your sampling)? What bias does this create?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How does your own positionality shape the knowledge produced and how you see it? What are your blind spots?
• Is your approach extractive?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Youth and Community Champion works with young people and communities to centre their experiences, elevate their leadership, and improve services.

Your equity focus is: Power redistribution and authentic participation.

You need to consider how you can meaningfully redistribute power to young people and communities, ensuring voice and leadership. You should reflect on where your methods sit on a spectrum from manipulation/extraction through to redistribution of power.

Key questions to ask:

• Where are you operating on Hart’s ladder of participation/co-production or other similar frameworks?
• Are there places where you could/should aim to move up the ladder? How might you do this? What resources are needed?
• Who is involved/invited to participate? Who is missing?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How have you identified and responded to accessibility needs?
• Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
• What feedback loops and exit/next step strategies are in place?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Youth and Community Champion works with young people and communities to centre their experiences, elevate their leadership, and improve services.

Your equity focus is: Power redistribution and authentic participation.

You need to consider how you can meaningfully redistribute power to young people and communities, ensuring voice and leadership. You should reflect on where your methods sit on a spectrum from manipulation/extraction through to redistribution of power.

Key questions to ask:

• Where are you operating on Hart’s ladder of participation/co-production or other similar frameworks?
• Are there places where you could/should aim to move up the ladder? How might you do this? What resources are needed?
• Who is involved/invited to participate? Who is missing?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How have you identified and responded to accessibility needs?
• Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
• What feedback loops and exit/next step strategies are in place?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Researcher and Evaluator generates evidence to understand problems and surface insights. You may use a range of methods from traditional, to participatory to innovative methods. Your work has the potential to support services, drive improvements and appraise change.

Your equity focus is: How knowledge is created, whose knowledge counts and methodological justice.

You need to consider how you can design and conduct research and evaluation in ways that centre equity, redistribute power, and challenge dominant norms of knowledge and knowledge production.

Key questions to ask:

• What is considered/valued as evidence by key stakeholders? Why? And in what format?
• Who is missing from the existing evidence and that you are producing (e.g. in your sampling)? What bias does this create?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How does your own positionality shape the knowledge produced and how you see it? What are your blind spots?
• Is your approach extractive?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Researcher and Evaluator generates evidence to understand problems and surface insights. You may use a range of methods from traditional, to participatory to innovative methods. Your work has the potential to support services, drive improvements and appraise change.

Your equity focus is: How knowledge is created, whose knowledge counts and methodological justice.

You need to consider how you can design and conduct research and evaluation in ways that centre equity, redistribute power, and challenge dominant norms of knowledge and knowledge production.

Key questions to ask:

• What is considered/valued as evidence by key stakeholders? Why? And in what format?
• Who is missing from the existing evidence and that you are producing (e.g. in your sampling)? What bias does this create?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How does your own positionality shape the knowledge produced and how you see it? What are your blind spots?
• Is your approach extractive?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Designer designs and develops interventions, services, and strategies that are grounded in evidence, responsive to user needs, and capable of driving meaningful change through insight, iteration and collaboration.

Your equity focus is: Equitable Change and Co-creation

You need to consider how to design and develop interventions, services, and campaigns that are grounded in lived experience, informed by evidence, and co-created with communities to drive equitable change and challenge systemic racism. You should reflect your where your methods sit on a spectrum from tokenistic consultation to meaningful co-production.

Key questions to ask:

• What assumptions are you making about "service and/or intervention users", and where do these assumptions come from/what norms are they grounded in?
• Whose lived experience and cultural knowledge is driving the design of this service or intervention, and whose is left out?
• What power dynamics shape how decisions are made throughout the design process?
• Who is the service or intervention for, and who gets to define that?
• What is the existing evidence about inequities in access, uptake and outcomes of similar interventions?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Mapper maps systems, actors, gaps, and opportunities to better understand evidence, systems, power and influence.

Your equity focus is: Visibility, structure, and how systems reproduce oppression/discrimination.

Consider how you can make power structures, systems, and marginalised actors or dynamics visible. How will you identify areas and opportunities for equitable change? Reflect on where your work sits on a spectrum from maintaining/improving existing systems that hold inequities in place to subverting, reimagining or dismantling those systems for real change.

Key questions to ask:

Who is/isn't in the room participating in mapping process? OR Whose perspective is this map representing?
Who holds power (formal, informal, relational, narrative) in this system?
Who benefits from how the system/map currently operates? Who is harmed?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be: 

The Designer designs and develops interventions, services, and strategies that are grounded in evidence, responsive to user needs, and capable of driving meaningful change through insight, iteration and collaboration.

Your equity focus is: Equitable Change and Co-creation

You need to consider how to design and develop interventions, services, and campaigns that are grounded in lived experience, informed by evidence, and co-created with communities to drive equitable change and challenge systemic racism. You should reflect your where your methods sit on a spectrum from tokenistic consultation to meaningful co-production.

Key questions to ask:

• What assumptions are you making about "service and/or intervention users", and where do these assumptions come from/what norms are they grounded in?
• Whose lived experience and cultural knowledge is driving the design of this service or intervention, and whose is left out?
• What power dynamics shape how decisions are made throughout the design process?
• Who is the service or intervention for, and who gets to define that?
• What is the existing evidence about inequities in access, uptake and outcomes of similar interventions?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Designer designs and develops interventions, services, and strategies that are grounded in evidence, responsive to user needs, and capable of driving meaningful change through insight, iteration and collaboration.

Your equity focus is: Equitable Change and Co-creation

You need to consider how to design and develop interventions, services, and campaigns that are grounded in lived experience, informed by evidence, and co-created with communities to drive equitable change and challenge systemic racism. You should reflect your where your methods sit on a spectrum from tokenistic consultation to meaningful co-production.

Key questions to ask:

• What assumptions are you making about "service and/or intervention users", and where do these assumptions come from/what norms are they grounded in?
• Whose lived experience and cultural knowledge is driving the design of this service or intervention, and whose is left out?
• What power dynamics shape how decisions are made throughout the design process?
• Who is the service or intervention for, and who gets to define that?
• What is the existing evidence about inequities in access, uptake and outcomes of similar interventions?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Evidence Bringer synthesises robust, accessible, and context-specific evidence to support action, accountability, and change. You may do this as part of research and evaluation, but not necessarily.

Your equity focus is: Rigour, inclusion and justice in evidence generation

You need to consider how you can create and curate knowledge that reflects diverse experiences. Think about how you will acknowledge bias in the evidence-base, and challenge dominant notions of validity. You should reflect on where your methods sit on the spectrum from traditional evidence synthesis, production and curation to community rooted evidence learning.

Key questions to ask:

• What is considered/valued as evidence by key stakeholders? Why? And in what format?
• Who is missing from the evidence-base? What bias does this create?
• In what context and under what circumstances was the evidence created?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Designer designs and develops interventions, services, and strategies that are grounded in evidence, responsive to user needs, and capable of driving meaningful change through insight, iteration and collaboration.

Your equity focus is: Equitable Change and Co-creation

You need to consider how to design and develop interventions, services, and campaigns that are grounded in lived experience, informed by evidence, and co-created with communities to drive equitable change and challenge systemic racism. You should reflect your where your methods sit on a spectrum from tokenistic consultation to meaningful co-production.

Key questions to ask:

• What assumptions are you making about "service and/or intervention users", and where do these assumptions come from/what norms are they grounded in?
• Whose lived experience and cultural knowledge is driving the design of this service or intervention, and whose is left out?
• What power dynamics shape how decisions are made throughout the design process?
• Who is the service or intervention for, and who gets to define that?
• What is the existing evidence about inequities in access, uptake and outcomes of similar interventions?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Youth and Community Champion works with young people and communities to centre their experiences, elevate their leadership, and improve services.

Your equity focus is: Power redistribution and authentic participation.

You need to consider how you can meaningfully redistribute power to young people and communities, ensuring voice and leadership. You should reflect on where your methods sit on a spectrum from manipulation/extraction through to redistribution of power.

Key questions to ask:

• Where are you operating on Hart’s ladder of participation/co-production or other similar frameworks?
• Are there places where you could/should aim to move up the ladder? How might you do this? What resources are needed?
• Who is involved/invited to participate? Who is missing?
• What influence do gatekeepers have on who takes part, what impact does this have?
• How have you identified and responded to accessibility needs?
• Who has set the agenda and from what lens?
• What feedback loops and exit/next step strategies are in place?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources

Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Influencer for Anti-Racism leads thinking, practice, and partnerships to challenge inequities and drive inclusive change.

Your equity focus is: Power sharing, agenda setting, and transformative leadership.

You need to consider how you can hold power accountably and how can you shape systems and ideas in ways that centre justice and redistribute influence. You should consider where your motivations and leadership sit on a spectrum from merely wanting to gain credibility for your work to being for the benefit of children, young people and families most affected by inequities.

Key questions to ask:

Who is accountable for taking actions and why?
Who is benefiting from this?
How are you positioning yourself  - as expert?
Are you doing with or doing to?
Are you recreating racialised and other inequitable dynamics in doing so?
Has the appropriate power and level of influence been “assigned” to those with accountability for taking actions?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources

Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The New View Revealer supports clients, partners and communities to imagine and shape different and potentially more equitable futures.

Your equity focus is: Imagination and inclusion/social justice in shaping the future.

You need to consider how to imagine just and inclusive futures that break from oppressive norms and create new possibilities. You should consider where your work sits on a spectrum from maintaining the status quo to community-led futures with differently imagined systems.

Key questions to ask:

• Who is involved/invited to think about this new future?
• Who will be able to participate in the future that we're trying to create? Are they involved/represented?
• What are the different agendas, assumptions/norms and interests of different stakeholders and how might they compete?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?
• Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

The Designer designs and develops interventions, services, and strategies that are grounded in evidence, responsive to user needs, and capable of driving meaningful change through insight, iteration and collaboration.

Your equity focus is: Equitable Change and Co-creation

You need to consider how to design and develop interventions, services, and campaigns that are grounded in lived experience, informed by evidence, and co-created with communities to drive equitable change and challenge systemic racism. You should reflect your where your methods sit on a spectrum from tokenistic consultation to meaningful co-production.

Key questions to ask:

• What assumptions are you making about "service and/or intervention users", and where do these assumptions come from/what norms are they grounded in?
• Whose lived experience and cultural knowledge is driving the design of this service or intervention, and whose is left out?
• What power dynamics shape how decisions are made throughout the design process?
• Who is the service or intervention for, and who gets to define that?
• What is the existing evidence about inequities in access, uptake and outcomes of similar interventions?
• How are diverse ways of knowing valued or neglected in different settings?

PDF of role and resources
Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

You may also be:

The Influencer for Anti-Racism leads thinking, practice, and partnerships to challenge inequities and drive inclusive change.

Your equity focus is: Power sharing, agenda setting, and transformative leadership.

You need to consider how you can hold power accountably and how can you shape systems and ideas in ways that centre justice and redistribute influence. You should consider where your motivations and leadership sit on a spectrum from merely wanting to gain credibility for your work to being for the benefit of children, young people and families most affected by inequities.

Key questions to ask:

Who is accountable for taking actions and why?
Who is benefiting from this?
How are you positioning yourself  - as expert?
Are you doing with or doing to?
Are you recreating racialised and other inequitable dynamics in doing so?
Has the appropriate power and level of influence been “assigned” to those with accountability for taking actions?
Are your outputs perpetuating racism in anyway?

PDF of role and resources

Link to reflective Miro board - coming soon!

We hope this tool has been a useful starting point for reflection about your own anti-racist practice. Don’t forget to download your role description(s) by pressing ‘Back’ and clicking ‘PDF of role and resources’.

To explore all the roles in our Anti-Racism Action Framework, see here.

If you have any feedback on using this tool, or would like to explore adapting the Anti-Racism Action Framework to be more bespoke for your organisation, please reach out at lab-media@dartington.org.uk