All Roles

Each of these roles is taken from our Anti-Racism Action Framework and is designed to help you reflect on the role(s) you play and how the activities you undertake in research and design work translate to your anti-racist responsibilities.

Influencer for Anti-Racism

Leading for equity

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 you can 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.

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Mapper

Visualising systems and structures

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.

You need to consider how you can make power structures, systems, and marginalised actors or dynamics visible. How will you identify areas and opportunities for equitable change? You should consider 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.

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Evidence Bringer

Synthesising existing evidence

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.

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Reciprocal Learner

Sharing capacity

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.

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

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Convenor

Connecting and building relationships

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.

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Youth and Community Champion

Centring children, young people and communities

The Youth and Community Champion works with young people and communities to centre their experiences, elevate their leadership, and improve services. The spectrum in which your methods may sit is from manipulation through to redistribution to power.

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.

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Designer

Developing interventions, strategy and services

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.

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New View Revealer

Envisioning a new or different future

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.

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Researcher and Evaluator

Creating new evidence and insight

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.

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