Professor Rhiannon Turner took part in an award winning Channel 4 documentary on tackling racism in schools. 

Based in a London comprehensive school and spread across three weeks, a multicultural class of 24 Year 7 students took part in a series of activities as part of their normal school day. The activities were aimed at tackling unconscious racial biases and building children’s confidence in interacting with people from a range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Over a period of about 18 months, the documentary team, which also included an academic in the field of education and a teacher with expertise in diversity and inclusion, developed a three-week programme of evidence-based activities suitable for an ethnically diverse class of 11-year-old pupils at a school in South London.

Professor Rhiannon Turner, along with Dr Nicola Rollock from Goldsmiths University, commented on the activities as they happened, watching them on a screen from a nearby room. They also talked about the evidence on which activities were based, and what we expected to find.

Rhiannon commented as the children were engaged and how they responded to the activities.

Click on the video below to hear about the results.