Culture is who we are, and what shapes our identity. Placing culture at the heart of development policies is the only way to ensure a human-centred cultural diplomacy.

There are several relevant and established areas of underrepresentation and inequality within culture. Some have been the subject of targeted interventions for many years with disappointingly limited effects.

At the Institute, we want to establish effective interventions that address them and are testing new innovative approaches in order to assess which are most effective.

We will embed learning and good practice from this work across the public diplomacy discipline.

Our members are piloting new approaches and launching calls that put inequalities and under-representation at the forefront.