Peel Roleplay was proud to support a fantastic day of filming at the wonderful Liverpool Podcast Studios last week, contributing professional acting talent to a new microaggressions training resource being co-developed by the University of Liverpool School of Medicine and the Real and Authentic Representations of Africans and Caribbeans (RARA) Education Project CIC.
The training content—part of an ambitious Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity initiative—aims to foster greater understanding and inclusive practice across university campuses and the wider community. Drawing on real-life stories and lived experiences of students and staff, the resource will present a series of short, powerful storytelling vignettes designed to raise awareness of subtle forms of discrimination, and to help learners identify, reflect on, and challenge microaggressions in everyday situations.
The recording session, led by Professor Taz Goddard-Fuller (University of Liverpool School of Medicine), Dr. Chiedza J. Ikpeh (RARA) and Isobel Jenkins (University of Liverpool School of Medicine), brought together a dynamic team of collaborators—including medical educators, community stakeholders, and professional actors. Peel Roleplay provided a talented cast to portray diverse avatars based on real-life authentic experiences from across the University of Liverpool. These roles were cast with great care to ensure authentic, respectful, and empathetic portrayals, with actor profiles including a range of protected characteristics such as age, race, gender identity, faith, and disability.
Jessica Wright, Managing Director of Peel Roleplay, said:
“It’s been a real privilege to be involved in such an important project—one that foregrounds lived experience and takes a creative, human-centred approach to institutional change. Supporting RARA and the University of Liverpool with our actors was not only inspiring, but a great example of how roleplay and storytelling can drive meaningful conversations around equality, diversity, and inclusion.”
As the team moves into the post-production phase, the recorded vignettes will be shaped into a bespoke training package to be used internally across the University of Liverpool and RARA, with aspirations to influence inclusive practices across the wider Liverpool City Region. The collaboration also included valued input from external partners such as the Anthony Walker Foundation, ensuring the resource remains grounded in both academic insight and community voice.
