Anti-Racism Framework for Initial Teacher Education / Training – Newcastle & Leeds Beckett Universities

Professor Heather J Smith (Newcastle University) and Professor Vini Lander (Leeds Beckett University) commissioned me to make an animation explaining their Anti-Racism Framework for Initial Teacher Education and Training. The animation is part of how the research reaches the people who can act on it, the universities and schools training the next generation of teachers across England.

The framework grew out of serious research. Heather and Vini carried out a global literature review on anti-racism in teacher education, then ran a survey open to every initial teacher education provider in England, shared through UCET and NASBTT so it reached both university and school-centred providers. They developed the framework alongside a wide group of partners acting as consultors, co-producers and disseminators, among them the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Show Racism the Red Card, Universities of Sanctuary, the BAME Ed Network, the National Education Union and NALDIC. You can read the framework itself on the UCET website.

This was meaningful work to be part of. My aim was to create an animation clear and welcoming enough to open up the conversation, helping teacher educators see the framework as a practical tool they can pick up and use straight away. I worked closely with Heather and Vini to make sure the visuals carried the research faithfully while staying genuinely watchable.

If you’re a researcher with findings you’d like to bring to life through animation for academic research, I’d love to hear from you. Get in touch.