S06E04: Diversity

Join us for an episode all about diversity: guest host Aly Singh shares her own experiences while Jenny wrestles with class and Kloe tries to find practical solutions. We talk to Hannah Cobb about the CIfA Equality & Diversity Group, to Sam Evans about class in the museum workforce, and to Michelle McGrath and Kathleen Lawther about Museum As Muck. Also tune in for a Dear Jane clarifying calibration quandaries and a special give away announcement! 00:02:15 Data sources and acronyms   00:08:16 We get fighty about class 00:15:26 Aly’s experiences 00:21:05 Let’s have fair labour practices, guys 00:26:38 Making people feel safe 00:35:20 Are apprenticeships the solution? 00:42:39 Interview with Hannah Cobb 00:56:30 Broadening our own horizons 01:01:00 Interview with Sam Evans 01:15:38 Interview with Museum as Muck 01:23:46 Dear Jane 01:28:16 Special announcement! 01:29:13 Patreon shout out Show Notes: - Bonus episode mentioned: https://thecword.show/2019/03/01/bonus-episode-diversity-discussion-panel/ - Icon’s Sustainable Workforce Research Toolkit project: https://icon.org.uk/about-us/icon-policy-and-advocacy/sustainable-workforce-research-toolkit-project  - Aly’s tweet showing a slide on AIC membership stats: https://twitter.com/alysingh/status/1139194296752660480 - The original ’UK Conservators as 100 People’ graphic: https://www.facebook.com/thecwordpodcast/photos/a.1135904649872719/1135944579868726/ - Fair Museum Jobs: https://fairmuseumjobs.wordpress.com/ - Apprenticeship update: https://icon.org.uk/news/icons-impact-apprenticeships-for-the-conservation-sector  - Young Canada Works: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/young-canada-works.html  - Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/young-canada-works/students-graduates/careers-heritage-graduates.html  - Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Equality and Diversity Group: https://www.archaeologists.net/equality-and-diversity-group and https://equalityanddiversitygroup.wordpress.com/ - Digging Diversity: https://hannahcobbarchaeology.wordpress.com/digging-diversity-2/ - Profiling the Profession: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/profiling_2014/index.cfm - Prospect Union: https://prospect.org.uk  - Enabled Archaeology Foundation: https://enabledarchaeologyfoundation.org  - Archaeowomen: https://archaeowomen.wordpress.com/ - Follow Hannah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArchaeoCobb - Follow CIfA E&D Group on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CIfA_Equality - Media Indigena Podcast: https://mediaindigena.com/podcast/ - All My Relations Podcast: https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com  - 'White Fragility’ by Robin DiAngelo: https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414  - Museum Detox: https://museumdetox.wordpress.com  - The Great British Class Calculator from 2013: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973 - Sam’s research project: https://museumofthemandus.wordpress.com/ - Follow Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samisatwork - British Museum National Programmes Conference 2019: https://www.npconference.uk/conference-2019 - Museum as Muck: https://www.facebook.com/groups/museumasmuck/ - Follow Museum as Muck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/museumasmuck  - Supermuckers at the Festival of Change 2018: https://www.acidfree.org.uk/projects/supermuckers/ - Panic! It’s an Arts Emergency Report: https://createlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Panic-Social-Class-Taste-and-Inequalities-in-the-Creative-Industries1.pdf Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Aly Singh.  Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license.  Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2019.