Improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in academia

Dewidar, Omar; Elmestekawy, Nour; Welch, Vivian

doi:10.1186/s41073-022-00123-z

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“…Action editors may not notice or act upon potential biases exhibited by reviewers (Draper et al, 2022;Moriguchi, 2021). Moreover, the absence of minority editors could lead potential candidates to feel like impostors about applying for such jobs, and for current editors to not think of minority researchers as potential candidates, via known effects of unconscious stereotyping (Dewidar et al, 2022). Attacking this issue requires making conscious efforts to debias editorial boards (Moriguchi, 2021).…”

Section: Beyond Online Conferences: Understanding and Addressing The ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Aravena-Bravo¹,

Cristià²,

Garcia³

et al. 2023

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A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% of the 7,000+ languages of the world are represented. With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to this literature, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/). /L+/ was a free 5-day virtual school that facilitated the interchange of expertise among early career researchers about all levels of language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts. Our paper provides an overview of organizing /L+/, the measures we took to ensure inclusivity, and qualitative and quantitative analyses of attendees' experiences. We asked for volunteers through the LangVIEW consortium resulting in a diverse organization team from under-represented areas: Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. To promote inclusivity, we (1) employed asynchronous and synchronous elements across three time zones; (2) provided closed captions for lectures and international sign interpretation for live sessions; (3) issued a code of conduct. For each time zone, an algorithm selected 120 participants (80% from traditionally under-represented regions) and 61 countries were represented. A post-school questionnaire revealed that 99% of attendees enjoyed taking part in /L+/. However, qualitative comments suggested that there were issues in duration, contents and scheduling. Although much remains to be done to promote inclusivity in linguistic research, we hope our school will contribute to empowering researchers to investigate and publish on language acquisition in their home languages.

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Section: Beyond Online Conferences: Understanding and Addressing The ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Aravena-Bravo¹,

Cristià²,

Garcia³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Данная статья не претендует на решение этих социальных проблем и не содержит подробного анализа или обсуждения политики DEI. При этом отмечается, что такие споры в настоящее время прочно вошли в сферу академических публикаций [7]. Ведется активный поиск и реализация организационных решений для закрепления DEI в науке, медицине и образовании [8].…”

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Should publishers use online submission systems to harvest authors’ responses to diversity, equity and inclusion?

Silva¹

2023

Naučnyj redaktor i izdatelʹ

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As companies advance policies pertaining to social reform, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the issue of protocol, and how those objectives are being achieved, invites debate. In particular, methods that infringe on authors’ rights or freedoms need to be scrutinized. Online submission systems (OSSs) are typically – and often exclusively – used by authors for submitting their papers. The present paper documents the use of OSSs by 33 journals published by Elsevier to harvest authors’ responses to issues and policies related to DEI. This is achieved via a mandatory survey prior to accessing the OSS. Here, a major concern is the violation of authors’ rights due to the presence of a barrier to entry to the OSS, which prevents them from submitting a paper and thus contravenes a core principle of DEI. Results of an investigation into the transparency of Elsevier’s 33 journals with regard to the same DEI principles that they require of their contributing authors revealed four main findings with regard to the gender diversity of their editorial boards: 1) in only six journals (18%) did 100% of the editors indicate their gender; 2) in 14 journals (42%), the editorial board page of the journal did not carry any statistics related to gender; 3) in five journals (15%), some editors preferred not to disclose their gender (in the case of Discourse, Context & Media, 33% of the responding editors preferred not to disclose their gender); 4) in all journals for which gender statistics were supplied (19, or 58%), none of the responding editors indicated a “non-binary or gender diverse” status. This paper suggests that Elsevier needs to revisit and reform its DEI policies related to editorial boards, as well as to rethink the current mandatory survey for authors using its journals’ OSSs.

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“…Leaders' prime concern has surfaced as adopting a diversified staff. It ha s progressed from ever being merely a legal obligation to becoming a must -have for companies [52].…”

Section: Language and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Excellence through Diversity-Inclusiveness: A Focus on IT Industry

Castelino

Shinde

2022

IJCSBE

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Purpose: Today's employee is worried with a lot more than the financial benefits that a job can provide; They really would like to know that perhaps the work they do is important as well as the company for which they work is reputable for is committed to fostering a diversified and friendly community. They care about improving things, and this optimal solution broadens along with how they envision their organisation. This includes working in a diverse and inclusive workplace. To foster diversity and inclusion, businesses first must learn to really be excellent listeners, implementing meaningful, and “always-on" employee voice programmes. Companies with gained in popularity or identity diversity have been in terms of financial returns, they have been demonstrated to surpass their national industry medians. Many IT firms embrace diversity and inclusion as a means of improving their bottom line excel in their workforce and productivity. The present paper is an attempt to study the strategies for building a diverse workforce, diversity and inclusion initiatives in the IT sector. Methodology: To meet the objective of the paper, secondary sources of data like the IBEF report on the information technology sector, annual reports from selected IT companies, journal articles in Google Scholar, newspapers, and business websites are used. Findings: According to the findings, many companies in the IT sector are promoting diversity and inclusion. Organizations with more diversified players boost revenues through innovation. According to research, businesses with more multidisciplinary communities seem to be more imaginative, involved, and artistic at work. Originality/Value: This study will assist in comprehending the various diversity and inclusion practices introduced by IT sector companies. To assist the companies to thrive towards excellence with the help of its employees, strategies and SWOC Analysis is carried out. Paper Type: Case Study

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Improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in academia

Cited by 28 publications

References 56 publications

Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Should publishers use online submission systems to harvest authors’ responses to diversity, equity and inclusion?

Excellence through Diversity-Inclusiveness: A Focus on IT Industry

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