{"id":522,"date":"2021-08-17T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/?page_id=522"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:28:22","slug":"allyship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/allyship\/","title":{"rendered":"Allyship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/717\/2021\/08\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/717\/2021\/08\/Picture1.png 826w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/717\/2021\/08\/Picture1-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/717\/2021\/08\/Picture1-768x551.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>What is&nbsp;Allyship?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allyship&nbsp;plays a critical role in helping us to dismantle inequalities within our society.&nbsp;Allyship&nbsp;is about building positive relationships, holding&nbsp;ourselves&nbsp;and others accountable and is a lifelong journey.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allyship&nbsp;involves being empathic, actively listening to the lived experiences of marginalised groups, calling out racism,&nbsp;standing in solidarity&nbsp;and&nbsp;taking action.&nbsp;Anyone&nbsp;has the ability to&nbsp;be an ally and&nbsp;embedding&nbsp;allyship&nbsp;into&nbsp;professional practice can influence change within an organisation and provide a safe and inclusive learning environment for students.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the Bridging the Gap to Leadership project we have explored what it means to be&nbsp;an ally within placement settings,&nbsp;allyship&nbsp;in the form of peer-to-peer support,&nbsp;allyship&nbsp;within the student-practice educator relationship and&nbsp;allyship&nbsp;in the workplace.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are a series of resources produced by\u00a0students on the Bridging the Gap to Leadership project for practice educators and individuals supporting students on placement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Providing Allyship to Health Care Students in Placements\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XKNIk1OR9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Content Creators:\u00a0Kai Yan Chun\u00a0Spirini\u00a0(University of Brighton),\u00a0Aliza Ale\u00a0(Canterbury Christ Church University), and\u00a0Emmanuel\u00a0Ozowara\u00a0(Canterbury Christ Church University).\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about allyship, what it is, what it isn\u2019t and how you can become an ally. Useful links to videos and academic papers can be found here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-huge-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#0300a3\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/2021\/08\/06\/allyship-and-allyship-resources\/\">A Guide to Allyship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is&nbsp;Allyship?&nbsp; Allyship&nbsp;plays a critical role in helping us to dismantle inequalities within our society.&nbsp;Allyship&nbsp;is about building positive relationships, holding&nbsp;ourselves&nbsp;and others accountable and is a lifelong journey.&nbsp;&nbsp; Allyship&nbsp;involves being empathic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152861,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}