FROM VALUES TO ACTION
Social Justice & Decolonisation for Organisational Transformation
by Siddharth Kankaria and Vanessa Mignan Jenkins
How can organisations meaningfully engage with social justice and decolonisation beyond token statements or isolated interventions?
How can they align their values with action and translate reflection into structural and cultural change?
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Our From Values to Action initiative supports research, education, and cultural organisations in rethinking systems, power, and practice through two interconnected offerings:
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A two-hour introductory workshop (Sept–Feb 2025): A practical, interactive session that introduces key ideas and helps organisations start building their action plan for systemic change.
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A five-week cohort programme (Mar–Apr 2026): A deep-dive, mentored journey for selected organisations ready to implement change at a structural level.
​Together, these programmes build the skills, mindsets, and frameworks needed to make equity and justice part of everyday organisational practice.
From Values
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Introductory Two-Hour Workshop
A Taster Workshop on Social Justice & Decolonisation
This two-hour interactive workshop introduces participants to the principles of social justice, decolonisation, and reflexivity in public engagement and organisations. It’s designed for leadership teams, DEI practitioners, programme leads, and change-makers who want to move from good intentions to meaningful and sustainable action.
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Key concepts in social justice and decolonisation,
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Organisational self-reflection and case-study exercises,
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Building the first steps of your systemic change action plan.
This workshop is a stand-alone workshop but also an introduction to our five-week cohort programme (Mar–Apr 2026), which will work intensively with five organisations to design and implement an action plan for organisational change.
Format
2 hours | Online | Highly participatory
​There are three ways to join:
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As an organisation – If your organisation (or an umbrella network you’re part of) would like to partner with us to host one of these sessions for your team or members, please get in touch. Host organisations fund the workshop and help share it within their networks.
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As a funding body – If you’d like to support or fund a workshop series to expand access and participation across a particular sector, community, or region, we’d love to collaborate. Please do get in touch with us to discuss further!​​
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As a participant – As an individual, you can register for one of our upcoming individual sessions. The next one is scheduled for Thursday, 27 November 2025.
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Workshop fees
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For organisation – If you schedule a workshop before December 1st, 2025, we will offer an exceptional rate of 300€. After this date, we will charge 900€ per workshop.
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For individual participants – The participation fees for one workshop is 15€.​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Next Individual Sessions:
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Five-Week Cohort Programme
A Cohort Programme on Building Systemic Change & Organisational Transformation
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Our five-week cohort programme (3 hours / week) brings together a small group of selected organisations to explore and apply concepts of justice and decolonisation through pedagogical lectures, workshops, and one-to-one mentoring.
Themes include:
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Social justice frameworks and decolonial theories
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Global South epistemologies and intersectional models
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Degrowth, ethics, and allyship in engagement
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Reflexivity and organisational design for equity
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Translating values into systems, structures, and policy
By the end of the programme, each organisation will develop a tailored roadmap for structural transformation — a living plan for embedding justice and plurality into their mission, culture, and operations.​​
The five-week cohort programme includes a pre-engagement DEIA diagnostic and a follow-up six months after the end of the programme.
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Next Cohort Programme:
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The From Values to Action Team
​​Siddharth and Vanessa, experienced professionals in science communication and public engagement, have joined forces to develop the Values to Action programme. Their combined expertise and passion for designing an in-depth programme ensures a transformative experience. Having collaborated on various projects in the past, they are confident in their ability to create a programme that will make a real impact.
Decolonisation expert
Siddharth Kankaria
Siddharth Kankaria is an Independent Consultant in Science, Society and Justice. He works at the intersection of research, practice, and teaching across a range of disciplines including science communication, social justice, decolonisation, science and technology studies, education, and the history and philosophy of science. Siddharth has a 4-year B.S. (Research) degree in Biology from the Indian Institute of Science and an M.Sc. in Science Communication and Public Engagement from the University of Edinburgh, U.K. He is also the Founder of the SciCommSci Club – a flagship initiative for engaging with the science of science communication – and serves on the Scientific Committee of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Network. Siddharth spends his time contributing to mentorship, capacity-building & social justice efforts and developing intersectional science engagement practices for the Global South. He is also an avid enthusiast of theatre, art, culture, reading and all things gastronomical!
