For many students from under-represented backgrounds, the career pipeline into creative industries is blocked. Karen Patel leads an initiative to help fix it.
Some craft students from minority groups say they feel shut off and don’t recognize themselves in their course materials.’s Careers section launched a series of articles in November 2022 looking at how institutions and different disciplines in the natural sciences were seeking to make their curricula and outreach activities more representative of the communities that they serve.
I am also director and co-chair of BCU’s Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts , which was established in 2021 to promote equality, diversity and inclusion across teaching and learning, research and external partnerships in the university’s Faculty of Arts, Design and Media. I started thinking about this after talking to craft students at other institutions who said they didn’t recognize themselves in the course material, and suggested topics that their lecturers were not aware of. One, studying fashion and textiles, told her tutor that she was interested in a particular African textile craft . She asked whether he had any readings on it that she could access, but he could not help her.
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