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In 1968 she was appointed vice-chair of the International Human Rights Year Committee, and from 1968 to 1972 was a member of the [[Community Relations Commission]]. Barrow also held the post of vice-president of the [[Townswomen's Guild|National Union of Townswomen's Guilds]].<ref name="BBC Annual Report" />
As a senior teacher, and later as a teacher-trainer, at Furzedown Teachers College and at the [[Institute of Education]] in the 1960s, she pioneered the introduction of multi-cultural education, stressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK.<ref>Patrick Vernon, [https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/interviews/windrush-pioneer-patrick-vernon-interviews-dame-jocelyn-barrow-obe/ "Windrush Pioneer: Patrick Vernon Interviews Dame Jocelyn Barrow OBE"], ''Black History 365'', 7 October 2018.</ref><ref name=UG /> She was a member of the Taylor Committee of School Governors.<ref name="BBC Annual Report" /> In 1984 she co-founded Arawidi Publications, a children's publishing house, with Yvonne Collymore. Named after a Caribbean sun-deity, Arawidi published children's books in a variety of languages forms including [[Languages of the Caribbean#Creole languages|West Indian dialects]] and [[Glasgow patter|Glaswegian]].<ref>{{Cite news
Between 1981 and 1988 she served as a governor of the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]],<ref>D. Butler, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BOR8DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=%22Jocelyn+Barrow%22+BBC+governor&source=bl&ots=lH1yK01wh8&sig=ACfU3U2NfRzwWyzH4dtoTJBoXNhV32lIhg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQnbnVxuLoAhWgSxUIHembDHwQ6AEwFXoECDEQRw#v=onepage&q=%22Jocelyn%20Barrow%22%20BBC%20governor&f=false "Broadcasting | British Broadcasting Corporation, 1927–, Board of Governors"], ''British Political Facts Since 1979'', Springer, 2005, p. 278.</ref> the first black woman to have been appointed to the board of the corporation, which in 2001 was controversially described by its then director-general [[Greg Dyke]] as still "hideously white".<ref>Amelia Hill, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jan/07/uknews.theobserver1 "Dyke: BBC is hideously white"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 7 January 2001.</ref> Barrow was also founder and deputy chair (1989–95)<ref name=IWWW /> of the Broadcasting Standards Council,<ref>Mike Brooke, [https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/education/race-relations-pioneer-dame-jocelyn-barrow-guest-speaks-at-miranda-brawn-awards-1-5243016 "Race relations pioneer Dame Jocelyn Barrow speaks at Miranda Brawn awards"], ''East London Advertiser'', 21 October 2017.</ref> forerunner of [[Ofcom]].<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-02-08/Debate-8.html "Broadcasting | Column 1065"], Parliamentary Business, ''Hansard'', 8 February 1989.</ref><ref name=IWWW />
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