Survey: Challenging Racialised Representations in British Theatre

This project is being led by Emma Jude Harris and Aneesha Srinivasan for Global Origins and Tom Six for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Our aim is to make recommendations to leaders and policy makers in the British theatre sector about how to challenge and prevent racialised representations in the industry (by which we mean people being identified or characterised primarily in terms of their racial identity).

This survey will be used to gather data about the frequency and severity of experiences of racialisation in the industry. We are also conducting interviews in order to gain more detailed insights about the nature of people’s experiences of racialisation. The findings of the survey and interviews will be anonymised and analysed, and shared with focus groups of experts, who will be asked to make recommendations for changes to policy and practices in the industry.

This survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

This survey contains questions that may be difficult or triggering. Please do read and respond with care and within your personal boundaries. We also suggest leaving yourself a little time to exercise self care after you complete it.

Thank you in advance!

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Which of the following best describes your practice in the professional theatre? *
Which of the following best describes your usual employment relationship(s)? *
How long have you been working in professional theatre? *
How do you describe your racial/ethnic identity?
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Thinking about your working life, how would you say your racial/ethnic identity is usually described or categorised by other people/institutions?

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In your work in the theatre, how frequently are you made aware of your racial identity?

*In the remaining questions, we use the terms 'racialisation' and 'racialised' to mean how people are racially defined, perceived, or categorised through interactions with other people or organisations. For example, you might be stereotyped, underrepresented, othered, assumed or expected to behave in certain ways, or discriminated against directly or indirectly. 
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If you are commonly racialised in your working life, in which of the following ways does that regularly happen?
Are there specific contexts or situations in your work when you are repeatedly/very commonly racialised? (e.g. auditions or interviews, meetings, rehearsals, interactions with audience members,  . . .)
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If you answered yes, what are those occasions? (feel free to give as much or as little detail as you wish - we will ensure that you are not identifiable in our findings . . .)
If you have encountered racism or racialisation (i.e. racialising behaviours, practices or policies) in your working life, have you ever challenged or attempted to address them?
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If you answered yes, how have you challenged or addressed racism or racialization?
Have you been concerned that challenging racialisation or racism would have negative consequences for you?
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If you work (or have regularly worked) at an organisation, have you received any training or are you aware of that organisation’s anti-racism policies or practices?

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If you answered yes, could you elaborate on how you encountered these policies and/or what training you have received?

If you answered yes, have that organisation’s anti-racism policies or practices changed significantly since you joined? And if so, how?

We are conducting interviews to gain more detailed information about the issues raised here. Would you be willing to be contacted for an interview? *
If yes, could you leave an email address for us to contact you on?

A reminder that even if you leave your contact details here, responses to this survey will be anonymised.
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