Proposal

Proposal

• To do a Social Experiment regarding Race and Gender roles in Goldsmiths University
• Take a sheet with nine headshots of people within Goldsmiths on it and nine different job roles. Three lecturers, three students and three other staff. 
• Ask students within Goldsmiths to answer a sort of questionnaire on which specific job role links with the specific headshot e.g Photo B job role is job A.
• We are doing this to see how people initially or maybe unintentionally perceive a type of race or gender with a specific job role.  For example, if a student takes the photo of an African Women and joins it up with the role of a cleaner, or if they take a white Western male and link that up with a lecturer. Our aim here is to demonstrate whether there a subconscious prejudice within students at Goldsmiths who have grown up in a Western patriarchal society. 
• Once the student has answered the questionnaire, we will ask three questions, for example, do you think that there are more male lecturers within Goldsmiths with higher job roles such as heads of department? Or, do you believe there is less of a chance for a female or person with an ethnic background to be hired as a head of department over a white male?
• This will all be done as a video interview.
• Once we take all the evidence and collate it. We can then make our verdict on whether race and gender effects the types of job roles you can get within University and moreover, if there is a sub-conscious prejudice within students at Goldsmiths regarding race, gender and specific job roles that has maybe been engrained in us from a young age living in a Western society which has dominated the world for centuries.
• Then we will make a hard hitting poster showing the results. We will use statistical evidence which we have collated by doing the social experiment and use that as evidence of race and gender prejudice on the poster and stick them around campus.
• Just a thought? once we have put up these posters around campus, maybe we can write an email on the bottom of the poster and see if people want to email us feedback about the evidence shown on the poster and thus see how Goldsmiths students feel about the results. As well, we can ask if they can anonymously email us any personal experiences of prejudice or maybe if they have been a victim of sexism at Goldsmiths etc.