Ultimately, the project not only contributes to more effective policies but also builds interdisciplinary research capacity across the social sciences and humanities and between university and industry. Involved as well are two Partner Investigators: Prof Fiona Terry, Head of Research at the ICRC, and Prof David Campbell, formerly Director of Communication at World Press Photo and now with The VII Foundation. Prof Bleiker works with five other Chief Investigators: A/Prof Emma Hutchison, from the School of Political Science and International Studies Prof Matthew Hornsey and Dr Cassandra Chapman from the UQ Business School, as well as A/Prof Sana Nakata from the University of Melbourne and Prof Bina D’Costa from the Australian National University. To pursue these goals the project brings together a diverse group of scholars – stemming from international relations to psychology, photojournalism, marketing and policy analysis – with leading industry partners and humanitarian practitioners. Expected outcomes include both scholarly contributions and new best practice guidelines that better equip humanitarian organisations to help people in need and contribute to enduring political solutions. The project addresses these challenges by developing – and testing - alternative visual strategies that depict humanitarian crises in ways that encourage compassion for victims without entrenching problematic stereotypes. Many humanitarian organisations are conscious of existing problems but they also know that stereotypical images of suffering victims generate compassion in Western viewers and are effective fundraising tools. Doing so reinforces hierarchical power relations and can undermine policy initiatives that seek to develop local capabilities, build autonomy and value non-Western ways of being. Add to this that crisis imagery tends to portray victims in the Global South in stereotypical ways, as passive and dependent on Western help. They often focus on violent events, suggesting that we are overwhelmed by problems and unable to find solutions. Prevailing visualisations of humanitarian crises are powerful but problematic. The aim of the project is to draw on the power of images to transform practices of aid. It involves four prominent Partner Organisations that are at the forefront of humanitarian and photojournalistic work: The World Press Photo Foundation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Australian Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières. Titled “Visualising Humanitarian Crises: Transforming Images and Aid Policy,” the project has been funded for $694,366 over four years. More information about how we score this metric can be found here.The Visual Politics Research Program is delighted to announce that one of its pilot projects, led by Prof Roland Bleiker and involving an interdisciplinary team of eight collaborators, has been awarded an ARC Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council. Resources to help nonprofits improve their DEI practices can be found here. Charity Navigator has developed a plan to iterate and expand upon our preliminary DEI ratings and will be rolling it out gradually in order to provide charities ample time to incorporate, report, and potentially improve their equity practices. Our preliminary assessment of the nonprofit's DEI practices was developed with the expertise and advice of dozens of leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors and is based on the Equity Strategies information collected through Candid's Demographics profile. The National Council of Nonprofits has compiled several resources and studies that document how effective DEI practices can help organizations cultivate staff belonging and motivation, improve management and governance practices, and spark innovation that can help nonprofits achieve their missions. There is a growing body of research which shows that effective DEI practices can promote a more positive organizational culture, which can influence the nonprofit's ability to achieve impact on the people and communities they serve.

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