The Fieldwork Initiative

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The Fieldwork Initiative

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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 of data collection.

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What is Bias

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What is Bias

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

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.

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FieldFutures

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FieldFutures

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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.

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Field Inclusive, Inc.

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Field Inclusive, Inc.

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Learning and being aware of various social field safety issues that could arise for people who professionally work outdoors — but more specifically — for marginalized and historically excluded individuals is our goal. Social Field Safety Workshops cover the history of minorities in the outdoors, group brainstorming activities, and group discussions about solutions to common social field safety scenarios that could impact certain groups of individuals.

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Bystander Training

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Bystander Training

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In addition to the ADVANCEGeo Partnership’s bystander intervention workshops, this page contains a compilation of common training programs on bystander intervention and other strategies to address harassment, sexual violence, and bias.

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Mentoring Manual

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Mentoring Manual

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All of us encounter many opportunities in our lives to either mentor, or be mentored; and in any mentoring relationship the responsibility to foster and guide the process falls to both the mentor and the mentee. The goal of this online manual is to highlight the value of mentoring and to help students, faculty, and administrators be better mentees, and become better mentors.

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Toolkit to Mitigate Bias in Recruitment & Hiring

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Toolkit to Mitigate Bias in Recruitment & Hiring

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The Avarna organization provides learning experiences, assessments, implementation planning, mentorship and coaching, intentional convenings, and resources for the outdoor and environmental sector. They have made their toolkit for mitigating bias in recruitment and hiring freely available.

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