{"id":101,"date":"2021-08-06T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/?p=101"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:05:42","slug":"what-is-allyship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/2021\/08\/06\/what-is-allyship\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Allyship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\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 ourselves 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><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178\" style=\"width: NaNpx\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/717\/2021\/08\/Allyship-1.pdf\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182\" style=\"width: NaNpx\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/717\/2021\/08\/Allyship-2.pdf\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 ourselves and others accountable and is a lifelong journey.&nbsp;&nbsp; Allyship&nbsp;involves being empathic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,17],"tags":[53,41,54],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-resources","tag-allyship","tag-bridging-the-gap-to-leadership","tag-what-is-allyship"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"White, Benjamin (b.white276@canterbury.ac.uk)","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"Allyship&nbsp;plays a critical role in helping us to dismantle inequalities within our society.&nbsp;Allyship&nbsp;is about building positive relationships, holding ourselves and others accountable and is a lifelong journey.&nbsp;&nbsp; Allyship&nbsp;involves being empathic, [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/bridgingthegaptoleadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}