More than half of field participants report experiencing sexual harassment while doing fieldwork, and one in five report assault. To combat this, FieldFutures offers a suite of interactive trainings developed by a team of field researchers at UC Santa Cruz.
A blog post asking academics to focus on creating more inclusive environments instead of focusing on the recruitment of “diverse” candidates alone.
A short, two-minute video explaining what microaggressions are, using the analogy of insect bites.
A 20-minute video detailing the many ways microaggressions show up in university classroom settings but is generalizable to academia in general.
Lessons from the APLU INCLUDES Project. The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities has compiled evidence of promising practices for recruiting and retaining faculty from underrepresented groups.
The INTERACT Fieldwork Planning Handbook covers all aspects of fieldwork, from the initial idea, to the actual fieldwork, through to getting safely back home with samples and data to wrap up the project. A particular focus is put on all aspects of planning until you venture into the field and safety aspects when working at… Read more »
This book provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of Black women.
An Inside Higher Education article about the exploitation of scholars through inequities in labor in academia (cultural taxation) for faculty of color and gives career advice centered on ways to minimize the burden.
This publication details how commonly used color maps distort perception for all readers and how they may make visualizations unreadable or misleading for those with color vision deficiencies. The artilce includes recommendations for improved color mappings.
This page defines bias (explicit and implicit) microaggressions, and then aggregates resources on bias in sciences general and geosciences specifically. The page also shares resources on how implicit bias affects self-perception.
