Known Impact is an Associate Accountability Partner
Known Impact
10 June 2024
We are happy to share that we are one of the University of Bristol’s Associate Accountability Partners for their Reparative Futures programme. This long-term project brings an exciting array of people together including students to achieve sustained impact.
Reparative Futures programme
Reparative Futures is a £10 million programme which aims to tackle racial injustice and inequalities both within the University itself and in the local communities the university works with. The programme will run over ten years.
The Reparative Futures programme combined with the University’s institutional commitment to anti-racism and the work of the University’s Anti-Racism Working Group forms the basis of our ongoing efforts to dismantle all forms of racism wherever they exist.
The University of Bristol has committed to:
- Further research into its history in more recent times and its impact on racism and race-related inequalities.
- Contextualising names of buildings across the University.
- Sustaining its Black Bristol Scholarships.
- Creating a community fund for collaborative initiatives between local groups and the University to support the University’s civic responsibilities.
- Make funding available for educational initiatives.
- Improving and updating the website to ensure transparency and education.
- Engaging with and making its historical records available and accessible to the widest possible public via both physical and digital means through co-created historical research.
- Building on, and extending, its work on recruitment, retention and promotion of Black and other racially minoritised staff.
- Building on, and extending, its work to eradicate the attainment and awarding gap for Black undergraduate students.
- Working in partnership with key stakeholders, locally, nationally and globally to eliminate systemic barriers, particularly in the domains of education, as part of our Reparative Futures programme.
The university has appoiinted external accountability partners and associate accountability partners to hold the University to account for its ambition to create transformational change. Each will bring their unique perspectives and experiences to challenge the University to do better.
Mobilisation phase
We have started a mobilisation phase to set up the Reparative Futures programme. This will focus on developing the operational and governance processes the university needs to make sure it meets the principles it has set for the programme.
The mobilisation phase includes tasks such as:
- How the university appoints internal and external collaborators and accountability partners
- Defining frameworks for co-creation
- Developing a communications and engagement plan
- Developing equitable funding allocation models, so that funding is shared fairly and impartially.
Checking our progress
Reflecting on our progress as a whole will be important for the univeristy to achieve transformational change for those with lived experiences of racial injustice. This means reviewing where the university’s focus and funding should remain, and where it might need to change. Community events and our accountability partners will help us in this process.
The univeristy will regularly update on our plans, actions, and progress. If you want to be involved in the programme in the future or receive announcements from the university, you can email to register your interest: reparative-futures@bristol.ac.uk.
