EDI-resources

CAIMS Activities

• Navigating EDI Presentation June 15, 2022.

• The CAIMS EDI survey (downloadable QR code for survey).

Training resources

• Implicit bias training from the Canada Research Chairs program

• Racial bias workbook - from CANSII

• NSERC is a signatory of DORA - explains why journal impact factor should not be used to evaluate research quality

• Guide for considering EDI in your NSERC Discovery Grant

• Gender equity in science bring together scientist from all disciplines

Actions

• 'Picture a scientist' on Netflix

• Academia's abelist mindset needs to change

• How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces

• Importance of collecting data - report in CMS. See also Women and math awards

• EDI in modelling - from Mathematics for Public Health

• 10 simple rules for building an anti-racist lab

• Understand gender biases in reference letters

• Actions that can be taken by white academics

• Reading list from the EEB department at the University of Toronto

• Provide pronouns, land acknowledgments, lead activities, write statements, audit, bystander intervention, decolonize your syllabus, highlight members

Why equity and diversity matters

• Who gets into medical school and why - University of Otago Medical School admissions

• Diversity in STEM: What it is and Why it Matters - cited in the NSERC Discovery Grant Guidelines

• Gender diversity leads to better science - cited in the NSERC Discovery Grant Guidelines

• Quantification of intersectional priveledge

Policy statements from related groups

• CSEE commitment to EDI

• ICSB EDI Strategic Plan

• NSERC EDI policies

• Scarborough Charter commits Canadian Universities to anti-racism

• ISCB documents

Links

• Canadian Center for Diversity and Inclusion

• Advocating for better work-life balance in academic Maria Martignoni in The Female Scientist