Please note: session times subject to change.

About the session:

This course will help you develop your understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion and how it relates to you, you workforce ( paid and voluntary), your audiences and your programmes.

You will be more confident that you can use up to date terminology and can recognise organisational factors and wider issues, including the barriers to inclusive recruitment and participation and ways to overcome them. This will help you to be pro-active and responsive in your approach to equality, diversity and inclusion, supporting your museum’s resilience. We will begin to explore how you could track progress with engaging audiences and a volunteer workforce that reflects the communities you represent.

This SW Museum Skills session is delivered with National Lottery Heritage Funding as part of the Rebuilding the Foundations: Gloucestershire's Museums project.

By the end of this session:

• You will be more confident that you can use up to date terminology in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
• You will be able to recognise organisational and other barriers to inclusive recruitment and participation and ways to overcome them.
• You will have begun to form ideas for pro-active and responsive approaches to equality, diversity and inclusion, supporting your museum’s resilience.
• You will have started to recognise ways to your track progress with engaging audiences and a volunteer workforce that reflects the communities you represent.

Session leader

Sam Munday-Webb is specialist consultant for organisations working in Education, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Safeguarding. He has worked in schools for the last 17 years and part time in a variety of public and private organisation supporting their approaches to people and difference. Sam runs a variety of training focusing on those with behaviour difficulties, special education needs and inclusion. Sam is a trustees for The Royal and Derngate Theatre in Northampton where he still on the Representation and Inclusion Sub Committee and is also a founding Trustee of the UK Pantomime Association. Sam is also the leader of the Drama PGCE at Warwick University where he teaches equality, diversity and Inclusion as part of the curriculum.

How will this session be delivered and what equipment do I need?

This session will be delivered online using Zoom a cloud based video conferencing service. The service is free to use, all you need is either a laptop, tablet/ iPad or phone. Your device will need to be able to stream video and sound. If you are using a laptop you can simply connect via your web browser. If using a tablet/ iPad or phone you will need to download the app (free to download) to connect to the session. Full instructions on how to join the session will be issued direct to the email address provided at the point of booking before the session takes place. 

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