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Last Update: November
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23, 2023
Planned Check-In:
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W1 2024
This page contains concrete, clear, measurable steps that the lab is implementing to break down discrimination in academia and psychological research. It is publicly viewable, and based on the larger goals made in our Our Long-Term Goals for Changing Exclusionary Academic Culture.
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- Have BIPOC and graduate/post-doc speakers invited to come visit us for lab meetings to give research talks: we can give more visibility by inviting more external speakers, especially when COVID makes Zoom meetings easier.
- Self and Other Nomination Sheets [Miranda + Kiana + Stephanie M.] (Success if done by January 1st, 2023)
- Create a page for nominations – Google Forms? Qualtrics?
- Identify potential sources to advertise to for self-nominations, as well
- Integrate “would you like us to try and invite this person for a lab meeting” into the reading proposal place
- Reach out to Nancy Sin about mentorship group and inviting them
- CogDev Coordinator: make a new page for lab meetings that has a list of typical events and includes one annual BIPOC-list speaker invited
- Advertising more publicly once self-nominations are made
- Revisit this and make sure that we have at least one per semester for a 12 month period (Success if done by April 15th, 20232024)
- Spend more time reading about intersectional issues in psychology
- January 2022: in the very first lab meeting in January, beginning of the term invite the entire lab to find readings and submit them to a wiki pageRevisit this and make sure that we have at least one reading per semester for a 12 month period (Success if done by April 15th, 20232024)
- To connect our work with the community, begin creating public versions of our published papers: it helps our work get easily communicated, teaches us to communicate better, and bypasses copyright issues.
- Email RAs to get one or two volunteers for a recent paper or a project they are working on
- Denny + Miranda will follow-up with the four RAs who expressed interest in September 2022.
- From that, either writing will continue or they will decide to hold a broader meeting to discuss ideas around structure and how this can be done.
- Ideally, by January 1st, 2023 we have a clear timeline for when things are going to be written and in what structure.
- In early-to-mid 2024, review some of the initial write-up/visualizations
- Consider creating template for visualization (maybe hire somebody external?)
- Once review is done, re-evaluate plan for future ones (standardized vs. creative)
- What about doing videos instead of write-ups (easier to make, broader, uses existing platforms EDRG is building)?
- Build in short checking-in on some of these initiatives in smaller-scale admin meetings once a month. Evaluate for how we are doing on this by January 1st, 2023.
- Create anonymous suggestion form for lab, including EDI initiatives [Ayshe + Admin Team] (Success if done by January1st, 2022)
- Create a public RA document about expectations and typical roles RAs take in our lab, and post it on our website before the next major round of RA recruitment [ideally done by May 1st, 2023]
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- Look at our RA recruitment forms with fresh eyes and make sure we are not implicitly communicating that the “ideal” student is narrower than we intend to (though, e.g., asking for GPA).
- CogDev Coordinator can you please add this as an admin item for January?
- Suggestions for Department-wide Initiatives:
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- Lab Discussion on Diversity in Subject Recruitment: we recognize this to be in need of a broader conversation than the time we had today. Consider assigning a reading on the topic (one has been suggested by Carolyn) in either July or September lab meeting. Update this on next follow-up.Look at our RA recruitment forms with fresh eyes and make sure we are not implicitly communicating that the “ideal” student is narrower than we intend to (though, e.g., asking for GPA).
- Should we promote our work more in the media? How do we find the balance between usefulness and shameless self-promotion for own gain?
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