The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry

多样性的色彩：BFI 多样性标准数据和英国电影业种族不平等的纵向分析

• 批准号: AH/V006045/1
• 负责人: Clive James Nwonka
• 金额: $ 97万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV006045%2F1
• 关键词: Colour; Diversity; Longitudinal; Analysis; BFI

The growth of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in the past thirty years has coincided with an increase of research on the deep inequality in the sector. This has included studies on how ethnic minority people are involved in, represented by and experience the CCIs. What is missing from existing research is a close-up analysis, over time, of how diversity policy that has attempted to tackle such inequalities, is constructed and implemented and with what results. The Colour of Diversity project, through close collaboration with the UK's lead body for film culture, the British Film Institute (BFI), as well as the Cabinet Office's Race Disparity Unit and the Guardian newspaper, will deliver an ambitious, timely and impactful academic research-led programme examining the links between race inequality, diversity and cultural policy. As part of the collaborative project, a large range of cultural practitioners, audiences and communities will be invited to participate in research forums, seminars and round-table events designed to bring industry stakeholders, cultural workers and communities together to exchange knowledge about diversity and inclusion in the CCIs. The Colour of Diversity focuses on the UK screen sector where racial inequality remains a major policy challenge. Diversity and inclusion are increasingly on the screen industries' policy agenda (DCMS, 2012; BFI, 2012; BFI, 2018, BAFTA, 2020). However, despite nearly three decades of policy initiatives, inequalities in terms of workforce demographic and on-screen representations of BAME communities remain a significant social problem. The implications of the long-standing under-representation suggests that BAME communities experience multi-dimensional inequalities and forms of discrimination, an example of which can be found in the film sector. The issue pertains to a lack of employment, differential audiences and problematic representations. The significance of the problem is that the field of cultural production plays a critical role in shaping everyday society and culture, how communities see themselves and are seen by others. The field of cultural production and representation, therefore, has real social effects.The empirical basis of the research analysis will be the BFI's policy initiative, Diversity Standards, a major policy initiative that the flagship cultural organisation launched in 2016. Diversity Standards is designed to tackle prevailing sector inequalities and boost racial diversity and inclusion across its Film Fund-supported productions between 2016 and 2022. As well as being the first empirical study of the BFI Diversity Standards data, to which the research team will have exclusive access, this will be the first sustained academic analysis and evaluation of the construction and development of cultural diversity policy in the UK. A key objective of the study is to analyse the mechanisms of cultural policy that seeks to tackle inequalities. This will increase knowledge about how the CCIs construct diversity initiatives, with the aim to support other industry stakeholders in implementing effective and informed policy strategies that will have real effects in tackling structural racial inequalities. The project examines how diversity policy links to a range of interdependent intersections and contexts, as well as foregrounding the significance of direct testimony and narratives of those who are targeted by such diversity policies. Through a robust programme of research that will including interviews, workshops, critical discourse analysis and textual analysis, The Colour of Diversity will foreground the significance of the Arts and Humanities for tackling social concerns such as social mobility and diversity. A principal research aim is to demonstrate the contribution of Screen Studies to sociological understandings of race and ethnicity and develop a theoretical interrogation of diversity policy as a critical form of social policy.

在过去的三十年中，文化创意产业（CCIs）的发展与对该行业严重不平等的研究的增加相吻合。这包括对少数民族如何参与、代表和体验cci的研究。现有的研究缺少的是，随着时间的推移，对试图解决这种不平等的多样性政策是如何构建和实施的，以及产生了什么结果的近距离分析。多样性的颜色项目，通过与英国电影文化的领导机构，英国电影学院（BFI），内阁办公室的种族差异小组和卫报的密切合作，将提供一个雄心勃勃，及时和有影响力的学术研究主导的项目，研究种族不平等，多样性和文化政策之间的联系。作为合作项目的一部分，众多文化从业者、观众和社区将被邀请参加研究论坛、研讨会和圆桌活动，旨在将行业利益相关者、文化工作者和社区聚集在一起，交流有关文化中心多样性和包容性的知识。《多样性的色彩》关注的是英国电影行业，种族不平等仍然是一个重大的政策挑战。多元化和包容性越来越多地出现在电影行业的政策议程上（DCMS, 2012； BFI, 2012； BFI, 2018； BAFTA, 2020）。然而，尽管采取了近三十年的政策举措，但在劳动力、人口和BAME社区的屏幕表现方面的不平等仍然是一个重大的社会问题。长期代表性不足的影响表明，BAME社区经历了多方面的不平等和各种形式的歧视，其中一个例子可以在电影部门找到。这个问题涉及到缺乏就业、不同的受众和有问题的表述。这个问题的意义在于，文化生产领域在塑造日常社会和文化，以及社区如何看待自己和他人如何看待自己方面发挥着关键作用。因此，文化生产和表现领域具有真实的社会效应。研究分析的实证基础将是BFI的政策倡议“多样性标准”，这是该旗舰文化组织于2016年发起的一项重大政策倡议。多样性标准旨在解决2016年至2022年期间其电影基金支持的制作中普遍存在的行业不平等问题，促进种族多样性和包容性。作为首个对BFI多样性标准数据的实证研究，该研究团队将拥有独家访问权，这将是首个对英国文化多样性政策的构建和发展进行持续的学术分析和评估。这项研究的一个关键目标是分析旨在解决不平等问题的文化政策机制。这将增加cci如何构建多样性倡议的知识，旨在支持其他行业利益相关者实施有效和知情的政策战略，这些政策战略将在解决结构性种族不平等问题上产生实际影响。该项目研究了多样性政策如何与一系列相互依存的交叉点和背景联系起来，并强调了这种多样性政策所针对的那些人的直接证词和叙述的重要性。通过一个强有力的研究项目，包括访谈、研讨会、批判性话语分析和文本分析，多样性的色彩将突出艺术和人文学科在解决社会问题（如社会流动性和多样性）方面的重要性。一个主要的研究目标是展示屏幕研究对种族和民族的社会学理解的贡献，并对作为社会政策关键形式的多样性政策进行理论质疑。