PRAISE
For the FACE Race Handbook
‘At Nottingham Trent University we are committed to continually reviewing our curriculum and assessment to be fair and inclusive. The FACE RACE Handbook for Educators gives practical support to navigate reflections, conversations and resulting actions. It is a usable resource that has enabled us to reinforce the work we are continually evolving to support all students’.
Natalie Brown, Deputy Dean
Nottingham Trent University
‘I recently reviewed the Handbook, and it is an excellent resource that enhances understanding of diversity and inclusion, particularly in areas such as recruitment, retention, progression, and course validation. I will be sharing it with all University Associate Deans for Diversity and Inclusion, encouraging its use and distribution among staff in their respective faculties and departments’.
Moni Akinsanya, Associate Director, Diversity and Inclusion
Liverpool John Moores University
“Central Saint Martins supports the brilliant and important work of FACE. The FACE Race Handbook is an essential toolkit for all educators who want to critically reflect on their practice and develop inclusive teaching spaces for all. We all have a responsibility to check our own race bias and do the work towards providing equity for all staff and students. This guide is informative and accessible for educators – totally essential. At CSM we were honoured to host the inaugural Face Race Summit in 2022 and the second summit in 2023 and continue to support and champion the dedicated work of FACE and its members.”
Hywel Davies (he/him), Dean
M School CSM
“The FACE handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone working in fashion education. Many of us recognise the need for change but are unsure how to navigate anti-racist, decolonial approaches to teaching and curriculum development. The handbook carefully explores the problems, provides detailed context and offers practical solutions. It challenges our own preconceptions and biases, and suggests ways of challenging those of our students.”
Dr. Philip Clarke
Acting Programme Director | Fashion Course Leader | BA Fashion Communication | Central Saint Martins
“The new RACE FACE Handbook unpacks how equality can be enacted at every level of the education system and provides a roadmap to positive change. From the specifics of recruitment, curriculum and assessment to the broader culture of our institutions, this hugely valuable body of work allows us to redesign our approach from teaching practical and theoretical skills, to importantly building a more inclusive industry”.
Dr Rosie Wallin SFHEA
Sustainable Fashion Lead | BA and MA Programmes. Sustainability and UN SDG Lead | Westminster School of Arts
“I’ve just read through the Handbook, and it’s fantastic and will be a great resource for the Design School.
I will pass it on to my Heads of Departments for them to share it with their teams as well. This document should be used to help inform everything we do from the validation/revalidation of courses to the recruitment of staff and students.”
Mark Gower, Associate Professor, Acting Head of School of Design
Kingston School of Art
“The FACE Race Handbook has been a great reference and aid to my reading list for my PGCERT which I’m currently doing at UAL. The PGCERT has a module dedicated to inclusive practice and the handbook has been a real benefit towards improving my knowledge on the subject.”
Nicholas Dunn. Year 2 Leader, Senior Tutor of Textiles design | Chelsea College of Art | UAL
Visiting Lecturer / Researcher | The Royal College of Art | London
“Thank you FACE. This Handbook will be integrated as part of the fashion department’s responses and support for diversity across all courses and staffing.”
Tony Bednall
Associate Professor | Head of Department of Fashion | Kingston School of Art
“The Handbook has just been circulated across our Design School and wider through our EDI committee. Well done everyone its a fantastic resource.”
Mal James
Senior Lecturer in Fashion | Edinburgh College of Art | University of Edinburgh.
The FACE Race Handbook
Free download
The FACE Race Handbook for white educators
The FACE Race Handbook for white educators is available as a free download. This 53 page digital PDF is compiled by FACE Members and Associates gathering together from institutions up and down the country to confront anti-Blackness in our art and design institutions.
We encourage all department heads to share with their teams. Why?
Because The FACE Race Handbook unpacks evolved practice around recruitment, progression, curriculum and culture. Also contained within, are further links with tools and resources to challenge fragility, resistance and the preservation of innocence; an innocence that persists when every white person in the building chooses to hide behind unconscious bias.
The FACE Race Handbook is for all allies.
FACE Associates are competent in anti-racist knowledge and vocabulary, able to speak up in institutions and challenge systemic racism in university life in coalition with Black and racially minoritised colleagues and students. How come?
Because FACE encourages its Associates to interrogate privilege and racial bias through regular meetings with Black and racially minoritised FACE colleagues. This practice has facilitated a growing network of culturally confident educators evolving together in anti-racist work that supports our colleagues and our students.