🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT🚨 Calico is offering an opportunity for two young creatives aged 18-25 based in Birmingham to lead their own digital arts campaign. If you have a story to tell, we are here to facilitate your work! Find out more here: wearecalico.co.uk/opportunities/

Delighted to report our free online version of the children’s book If Racism Vanished for a Day has been read over 2000 times and in many countries 🎉 Please continue to share and amplify 9-11yr old’s experiences of racism in the UK. UWE Education & Childhood Research Group (ECRG) BBC Bristol Emerging Minds Network

We’re really looking forward to being at BERA conference this week. Do come and say hi!

How & what do we memorialise? The RESPECT team were out with E-ACT Montpelier High School to explore young people’s insights & how we make sense of the slave trade today. Learners suggested plaques to celebrate family, statues of wise women & stones to remember the forgotten. UWE Bristol

As #BlackHistoryMonth comes to a close we remind folk that children in the RESPECT project call for schools not to be tokenistic but talk about race and racism all year Please use our free book to help! Barnardo’s Research from UWE Bristol @Ben_3eyes. issuu.com/uwebristol/doc…

Great to hear the ‘in conversation’ with @eastsidemoses and Dr Lawrence Hoo D.Litt today at Clifton LitFest. Exploring representation and language, religion and culture in #Bristol check out An Olive Grove In Ends waterstones.com/book/an-olive-… 📚

🚨New ECRG Blog Post🚨 Info about a free and online event on 12th December, in collaboration with the UWE Network for Black Studies in Education, Bristol Caribbean Kitchen, Phoenix Agenda Supplementary School, and other community partners. Link below⬇️ blogs.uwe.ac.uk/education/cult…

The research responds to the relative lack of literature concerning the racialised experiences of young children. We discuss how we developed the arts-based method of body mapping as an ethical approach to foregrounding the children's voices. RESPECT Project Bristol

We consider that this approach contributes to knowledge and understanding about exploring the nuanced and complex relationship between the children's external worlds and internal feelings, and suggest a framework for others to use and adapt. Pls check it out. Emerging Minds Network

Our paper is out! bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

Great to see our work up on @ExChangeWales - as always, do get in touch if you’d like to know more about our work and how we are amplifying children’s lived experience of racism. exchangewales.org/if-racism-vani… Research from UWE Bristol emergine

Really excited to share that on Thur we will have a billboard up with an image from If Racism Vanished for a Day- inviting people to think about racism … and not just in Black History Month (as requested by the young people we work with) … keep tuned for updates! Research from UWE Bristol

The Black Mental Health Manifesto, launched today, sets out the actions needed by the Government, the NHS, schools and others to eradicate systemic racism and improve Black people’s mental health. Read the manifesto here➡️ bit.ly/3QlnJdS #ProtectBlackMentalHealth

Looking forward to talking to Kevin Philemon on BBC Radio Bristol tonight at 7.30pm to chat about RESPECT Project Bristol and the billboard we have put up inviting people to think about a world without racism. UWE Education & Childhood Research Group (ECRG) UWE Bristol

Everyone should read this - powerful story highlighting systemic racism and the power of the arts as refuge and voice giver.