This glossary is intended to be used by facilitators, particularly in the scientific arena when replying to queries or in designing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI or D&I) workshops. Included are terms thatcome up regularly in our work; this is by no means an exhaustive list.
This website congregates dozens of facilitation training programs, and allows you to filter by price, duration, and location.
A list of available facilitation training programs endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators
From the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers Course: In this module, we’ll dive into some of the literature underlying our recommended team science practices (the science of team science). We’ll also explore some of the more common types of conflicts that arise in synthesis work and ways to anticipate, prevent (when possible), and resolve… Read more »
From the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers course: The success of a collaborative synthesis science project rests in no small part on the ability of the team of researchers to work effectively together and to draw on the full range of expertise, knowledge, and capacity in the group. Effective facilitation of team meetings can… Read more »
ADVANCEing FieldSafety Toolkit will be developed to include checklists, examples, fillable documents, and implementation guides that field teams can use to set codes of conduct, codes of ethics, surveys, reporting instruments, and structures to facilitate quick response in the field for different field contexts (e.g., undergraduate field campaign, ship-based research, tent-based field research). Each course… Read more »
Module two from the ADVANCEing FieldSafety Toolkit shares a variety of tools for field leaders and participants to increase communication, and facilitate healthy dialog in a field setting.
Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.
This LTER page includes a description of the Broadening Participation Committee’s function, activities, and membership.
The Fieldwork Initiative is a grassroots network of over 3,500 students and researchers facing trauma, unsafe conditions, or sexual harassment and assault during research fieldwork. The Fieldwork Initiative seeks to maintain a network for victims who have struggled with gendered violence while conducting research and to proliferate pre-fieldwork training seminars that break open the blackbox… Read more »
