Mental health in the field
This article speaks to the importance of mental health in field work and summarizes the factors that impact mental health in the field.
Safety and Belonging in the Field: A Checklist for Educators
A comprehensive checklist that seeks to make fieldwork a “positive, generative, collective, and valuable experience for all participants.” Written by authors with a wide range of backgrounds and field experiences, this document stresses inclusivity over each step in the fieldwork process, from planning to the return and debrief.
Playing It Safe: Recognizing and Managing Risk When Working With Students in the Field
A website from NAGT with resources and recommendations on field safety including being prepared for emergencies, reducing risk, and protecting yourself and your department when taking students out into the field.
Toilet stops in the field: An educational primer and recommended best practices for field-based teaching
This document is intended to educate staff and students about toilet stops and menstruation in the field. This document also contains a set of recommendations for field work and field trips with the aim of minimizing stress and anxiety for all parties.
Mental Health and Fieldwork
Successful fieldwork and fruitful academic careers hinge on acknowledging and managing our mental health. This paper discusses peer-support networks, secondary trauma, coping skills, therapy, and researchers’ mental health options before, during, and after fieldwork.
Not just muddy and not always gleeful? Thinking about the physicality of fieldwork, mental health, and marginality
This paper acknowledges that geographical fieldwork and fieldtrips can be deeply stressful, anxiety-inducing, troubling, miserable, hard and exclusionary for many colleagues, students and pupils. This paper draws on on qualitative data from research with UK university-based Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) academics who self-identify as having mental health conditions which substantially affect their daily… Read more »
Creating Inclusive Workplace Climates
A large part of creating and promoting inclusive climates in your department or field site comes from one’s understanding of social inequities that are present in our scientific and work communities and in our society as a whole. Addressing issues related to power dynamics, intersectionality, and privilege is critical for promoting positive, productive relationships with… Read more »
Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center
The Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center are building a learning community of scholars and practitioners advancing equity and systemic change in graduate education. Through research-practice partnerships, they generate, translate, and apply research into evidence-based, equitable practices.
Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist lab
As scientists are increasingly acknowledging the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in science, there is a need for clear direction on how to take anti-racist action. This paper presents 10 rules to help labs develop anti-racists policies and action in an effort to promote racial and ethnic diversity, equity, and inclusion in science.
The WELLS Healing Center
The WELLS Healing Center is a non-profit organization that provides workshops and training using counseling psychology and Black feminist principles. The WELLS Healing Center also provides mentorship and training for mental health and wellness healers (e.g., counselors, coaches, etc.) that incorporates scholarship and activism.
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